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featherynscaleThe woman asked me this morning, "So, is accounting your forte?"
I say, "I'm pretty good at it, yeah."
She starts to close the folder and sighs. "There's no accounting in this."
I cock my head to the side a bit. "That's okay. It's a thing I can do, not a thing I have to do."
She looks vaguely startled for a time. She opens the folder back up. The interview continues.
So anyway, here's my question. I can do a hell of a lot of things, many of which are legal to do for pay, and some of which are things that people actually get paid to do on a regular basis. Why would someone assume that since I have been working in a particular field and that I'm good at being in that field, that this would imply that I'm unwilling to/incapable of doing anything else?
If you've got a job, is that kind of job the only thing you feel qualified to do? Is it the only sort of job you would look for, if you were looking for a job?
Maybe it's just me, but that seemed a little bizarre. I've been doing money-related jobs because those were the jobs that I could get, and they pay reasonably well, not because I feel that God called me to be an accountant, or anything.
I say, "I'm pretty good at it, yeah."
She starts to close the folder and sighs. "There's no accounting in this."
I cock my head to the side a bit. "That's okay. It's a thing I can do, not a thing I have to do."
She looks vaguely startled for a time. She opens the folder back up. The interview continues.
So anyway, here's my question. I can do a hell of a lot of things, many of which are legal to do for pay, and some of which are things that people actually get paid to do on a regular basis. Why would someone assume that since I have been working in a particular field and that I'm good at being in that field, that this would imply that I'm unwilling to/incapable of doing anything else?
If you've got a job, is that kind of job the only thing you feel qualified to do? Is it the only sort of job you would look for, if you were looking for a job?
Maybe it's just me, but that seemed a little bizarre. I've been doing money-related jobs because those were the jobs that I could get, and they pay reasonably well, not because I feel that God called me to be an accountant, or anything.
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Date: 2004-12-03 02:06 pm (UTC)I don't at all think you're belittling me. You're telling exactly the truth. I don't know how to get paid for doing what I like to do, so I keep working so that I can do the things I like to do in my off hours. I don't need a whole lot of money for this, I just want to have enough to manage on.
Hell, since I moved in with you guys, I feel like an ostentatiously wealthy person because I go out to eat all the time at nice restaurants and I still have some money in the bank when the next check comes (even if it's only a few dollars). My usual mode of living has involved eating rice and beans at home most of the time, and still being broke by the time the first week was over, then trying not to need anything for a week.
I think that if I could figure out how to be "mugging opportunity, going through its pockets for loose job offers, and off to the races", I'd probably go that route, but the secret of it has not come to me yet, and it's not that important to me in the end whether it does or not.