Tea break

 

The sun came out today, strong and warm. I got up early, got online and went back to my obsessive work hunting and networking. By lunchtime I'd pretty much done all I could do, having spent yesterday and much of Monday in the same pursuit. I am finding good information, getting ideas and suggestions from some helpful angels, and reaching out to current clients and contacts. I picked up a book called The Complete Job-Search Handbook, which is joyfully free of a one-size-fits-all approach and contains some counterintuitive and contradictory suggestions, an approach that thoroughly appeals to me whether I would apply certain of them or not. (It's not for nothing that I work in a creative field and as an independent.) Still I have moments of frustration, and other moments of optimistic faith in all my capabilities, and back and forth. (For the record, I could stay independent, but I've got to pull in more work, a lot more.)

I left my car (now at 174K miles and counting) at my mechanic's at lunchtime and walked home. Hopefully he can whip it into shape and I can keep it going awhile longer. Now I'm back and ready for some tea and cookies (those would be Bolero Cocoa Wafer Sticks - yum yum) and maybe I'll take my job-search book out on the deck with me. Or take a real break and read this lovely chapbook - or chaplainbook - by the Velveteen Rabbi, which just arrived. I'm leaning toward the latter...

Comments

[Rachel]

I'm so glad chaplainbook arrived! I do hope you like it... :-)

[leslee]

Rachel: I read it through once this afternoon. Very moving. Excellent work with tough raw material. I'm going to go back and read them again, and again. Congrats - great job!