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Job news, podcasting, and fibro fog
Mar. 10th, 2022 06:08 pmCurrently sitting on the couch, listening to lofi music radio, and relaxing for the night. It's a fibro fog-ish day for me and I've already had a lot happening, so I'm attempting to relax now.
Copyediting for the book has officially started! I'm being a bit more picky with this round of edits than the previous round of edits, but I also just realized this is the last time I'll be able to make changes before we go to print. That and I'm reading it again and I'm like "oh fuck that is the worst sentence ever." My technical writing brain kind of took over while we were racing to finish the draft and now that I'm working on fiction projects again I'm like "... oh yeah. Clarity and brevity aren't the only things I need to pay attention to."
In other news: I got a job this week!
I was offered a position as a 1099 Virtual Assistant through the company I interviewed with last week! The hours can be kind of what I want them to be (as in I can take on exactly as many clients as I want) and the pay per hour is VERY good. I don't have clients yet, but I've been enjoying getting things set up. I genuinely like tasks like creating virtual business cards and prepping social media posts. Which honestly bodes well for me as a Virtual Assistant. There's something really nice and soothing about creating systems that make things easier.
I'm especially excited about this because I will be able to keep the job/clients once we move to New Jersey, if I like it. I've pretty much only been looking at virtual/remote work this job hunt because I don't want to get a job only to have to start the job search process all over again in a year. When I was younger, that was ok, but now I feel like what I really want is some consistency. I can save the inconsistency for my own business - because lord knows that is always up and down.
It might be a rough couple of months until I get my client roster filled, since I will still need to keep my day jobs in retail as well as maintaining my own business, but I can taste the sweet, sweet knowledge that I'll soon have Saturdays off with Anais. Fingers crossed the transition goes better than I think. I'm working some new client energy spells - both for tarot clients and for virtual assistance clients. Since tarot readings pay well and are something I love to provide, I would love to fill those books up.
All right, that's all for today. I have updated the most important things. Now, to keep listening to LoFi and read more of "The City We Became."
Copyediting for the book has officially started! I'm being a bit more picky with this round of edits than the previous round of edits, but I also just realized this is the last time I'll be able to make changes before we go to print. That and I'm reading it again and I'm like "oh fuck that is the worst sentence ever." My technical writing brain kind of took over while we were racing to finish the draft and now that I'm working on fiction projects again I'm like "... oh yeah. Clarity and brevity aren't the only things I need to pay attention to."
In other news: I got a job this week!
I was offered a position as a 1099 Virtual Assistant through the company I interviewed with last week! The hours can be kind of what I want them to be (as in I can take on exactly as many clients as I want) and the pay per hour is VERY good. I don't have clients yet, but I've been enjoying getting things set up. I genuinely like tasks like creating virtual business cards and prepping social media posts. Which honestly bodes well for me as a Virtual Assistant. There's something really nice and soothing about creating systems that make things easier.
I'm especially excited about this because I will be able to keep the job/clients once we move to New Jersey, if I like it. I've pretty much only been looking at virtual/remote work this job hunt because I don't want to get a job only to have to start the job search process all over again in a year. When I was younger, that was ok, but now I feel like what I really want is some consistency. I can save the inconsistency for my own business - because lord knows that is always up and down.
It might be a rough couple of months until I get my client roster filled, since I will still need to keep my day jobs in retail as well as maintaining my own business, but I can taste the sweet, sweet knowledge that I'll soon have Saturdays off with Anais. Fingers crossed the transition goes better than I think. I'm working some new client energy spells - both for tarot clients and for virtual assistance clients. Since tarot readings pay well and are something I love to provide, I would love to fill those books up.
All right, that's all for today. I have updated the most important things. Now, to keep listening to LoFi and read more of "The City We Became."
