Thursday is within a "few days" after all

Well, I've got a job. It's for that college bar, and just for one night for a week, for now. They're starting a new 18+ club kind of night, so they need an extra hand. I go in to train on Tuesday. Not sure if the ad was incorrect with needing someone for 3 nights or what, but I'm not gonna complain about an opportunity to make some extra money. It definitely won't be enough to pay the bills, but it's a start! Plus, I was pretty good at picking up shifts at the restaurant I worked at in NH, so I figure I'll just try to do that here until something else happens. 

But yay! Job. Money. Hopefully this is the start of a wave of good news.  

Give me a job!

Well, I've gone on two interviews this week. Still waiting to hear back from them. I didn't post about it on Facebook; only my roommate and boyfriend know. I've kind of decided I don't really want to talk to the world about the whole job application process as it's going on. Makes it a little bit more depressing. I would rather just come out with a "I got a job in Seattle!" post then comment on the tediousness of job applying, the waiting, the not hearing anything. This way I wouldn't also get people's hopes up with possibilities. Having my own hopes up and then get taken down is bad enough. I don't need to know that I'll also be disappointing other people. (aka my family)

But, I'll put some updates occasionally on here. When I feel the need to "talk it out" with someone besides Katie, who's going through the same thing. Plus, one of my purposes with this project is to share what it's like living in Seattle in the position I'm in. 

Anyways. So two interviews this week. For part time jobs. One at a bar in the University District. What they need works well for me, because it's just three weekday nights, and it's a night shift so I can keep job searching/work a full time job during the day (when/if that happens). Downside is that when I say nights, I mean niiiiights. The shifts are 10pm-2am. We'll see. I went for that interview on Monday, and they said I would hear back either way in a few days. Thursday is within a few days right? I'm keeping my fingers crossed. There were only 4 or 5 other applications in the pile it looked like, so my odds aren't bad. I originally didn't want to be a server again, but with this particular position it could be good. I wouldn't have to work on the weekends, unless I offered to pick up somebody's shift; a full-time job is totally manageable with this, especially since I run on practically no sleep anyways so the nights I would only get about 4 hours of sleep wouldn't be a problem; the money is immediate (although who knows how well drunk Seattle college kids tip); and I would still get paid minimum wage hourly, so I would actually have a paycheck, unlike in NH.  

The other job is also part-time. It's for a nanny/household helper position for a 2-month-old infant. The mother is on maternity leave and her husband travels for work a lot, so they are looking for someone to come in the afternoons/evenings to help with the house cleaning, watching the baby, walking the dog, etc. They're flexible on the schedule, so I can make it work for me, especially if I get the waitress job as well. And, it's somewhat temporary because it's just while she's on maternity leave, with then the occasional night a week or so after that. Which is good, because if/when I have a full-time job, I wouldn't feel bad about having to work less. That interview happened yesterday and she said there were a few more candidates she was meeting with, so again I am waiting. I haven't worked with an infant for long periods of time for many years, so it'll be interesting. But I'm good with babies, I can clean houses, I can walk dogs. I got this. 

I have my application in for a few different full-time jobs, mostly at the YMCAs around Seattle. One of my goals today is to find out how to check in on the status for those applications. Two of them the job application time already closed, so I would expect to hear from them, right? Especially since one of them the Director reached out to me and suggested I apply for the job. One of them the application process is still open for another week and a half. This is my first time applying for full-time jobs, so I'm still learning how to do it. The follow up and the proper communication, and all of those things. Luckily, Katie just recently graduated from her Masters program, which includes the whole career development learning process that I went through 5 years ago.

I'll figure it out. Hopefully things will start coming together in the next week or so. I'm going to keep applying for part-time jobs that I could get while also having a full-time job, and keep searching for full-time jobs in the fields I want. I decided I was going to give myself until about the second week of October to find a full-time job more in the field I want to go in, and if nothing bites I'll look for a nanny job again. Getting close to that time, but spirits are still high!