Just when I thought I was out...
I've been putting off the inevitable. Since I no longer work at the restaurant/coffee house, I'm going to have to get a different job.

So I've been out there, filling out forms and standing in line, to quote Billy Joel. (I just typed that as "Billy Jowl" by accident, and briefly thought about leaving it to see if anyone noticed.)

In the town I live in, there are two really big employers. One is a granite company, and to be honest I'd rather not work there. The other is a brewery, and even though it's factory work, the pay is good, and the hours seem okay. Of the two, I could work there for a while.

I don't really want to leave the group home job. It's okay work, and the company treats it's employees pretty well. But the pay is inadequate, and it seems that no matter what I do, or how many times I apply for other positions, that I have gone as far as I can with this company.

This job is not enough for me. It's not enough pay, and it's not enough for me in as far as being meaningful. The plan is to find a full-time job somewhere else and drop down to part time with my present employer.

I've applied at a whole bunch of places and to be honest, they are all on the order of factory work or retail. I figure it this way: I need to make more money, and since no one will hire me to do the work I really want to do (something in theatre, or working with homeless people), I should just take the job that compensates me the most for the least amount of intrusion into the rest of my life.

So...I went back to Ferengi House, the catalog company I've worked for so many times over the years and told them I was interested in coming back this fall to work the holiday season.

I have an interview with them tomorrow morning.