Sunday Social: Work it
I’ve been posting less lately – busy getting things ready for the baby, though I feel like we’re pretty ready now. I’ve spent a lot of time in the evenings when I’d normally be posting writing shower thank-yous and washing/folding tiny clothing. On Friday we went to Red Robin and to see the movie Rush with our friends. It was a pretty great movie – Lo’s into F1 racing (which is what it’s about), so he was all about it, but it was really good, and based on a true story.
I woke up in the middle of the night with such a terrible headache. I was laying awake from about 4:45-6 a.m. trying to put pressure on my head where it hurt so I could fall back asleep, and I finally got up when Lo got up to feed Boof and took Tylenol (which is worthless) and came downstairs to drink a couple ounces of day old coffee to see if the caffeine would help. When I got up later, it was mostly gone, and faded within an hour or so. It was probably the worst headache that I’ve had since I was pregnant, except when I had a fever the night I told Lo I was knocked up.
We had a busy day of going to our friends’ 5 year old’s soccer game, cleaning up around the house, I made up some cookie dough to chill for later, went grocery and CVS shopping, showered, helped Lo make pizzas (I just handle the toppings for mine), and finally sat down to watch the Buckeye game. I was hurting by the time I sat down – like a lot. My lower back hurt, my feet hurt, my stomach was hard as a rock with BH contractions, and I was walking like an old lady. Now I’m just kicked back in the recliner, watching the Buckeyes beat Wisconsin (24-14 at this point) while I try to get some posts scheduled.
It’s Sunday Social day where Ashley and Neely post questions each week for people to answer on their blogs and a linkup. This week’s questions are all about jobs.
1. What is your dream job?
I know it makes me sound so lazy to say no job at all, but I’d love to be a lady of leisure. There’s so much I would do during my days while I’m normally at work, so it wouldn’t be total leisure anyway. Of course, there wouldn’t be much leisure after the baby is born, but I’d have plenty to do then. But if had to pick an actual job that I’d get paid for, I guess I’d be a travel writer or photographer. Of course, ask me another day and I’d give a totally different answer.
2. If you had just won the lottery and didn’t need to work for money, what would you do with your time?
Yoga/workouts, diy projects, more cooking/baking, blogging, volunteering, lots of traveling…oh there’s so much I would do, it’s overwhelming to even try to think of everything.
3. What piece of career advice would you give to someone just starting out in your field?
I don’t really have a “field”. I have a job, but it’s a government job that isn’t really field-based. Career advice I’d give to someone getting a degree in psychology/criminal justice would be to NOT do that, unless you have a clear plan for what you want to do with it or intend to go through lots more schooling. I did it because it’s what I loved and what made sense to me, but I never really had a reasonable goal of what I wanted to do with it. I worked as a case manager and then as a mental health specialist, but neither are things I’d have wanted to do long-term or after I had a family – plus they pay shit for what you have to deal with. I wish now I’d have headed into industrial and organizational psychology, but back then I would have had no idea that’s what I’d like to do or whether I’d be good at it – and it doesn’t sound fun at all, but it’s pretty clear in my current job that I’d be pretty great at that. But going back to school sounds terrible…and expensive. I needed to do this 5 years ago before I had a house and a baby on the way.
4. What would be your ideal “just for fun” job?
I guess that’s kind of what blogging is. Otherwise, I’d want to be a yoga instructor or something like that. Or maybe work at Trader Joe’s. I loved working at a grocery store in high school/college.
5. What was your first “real” job?
Besides babysitting, I was a waitress at Country Corner, which was a small country-style family restaurant, when I was 14 or 15 during the summer. It was a pretty simple job because a lot of people got the salad bar and there wasn’t a bar. After that I worked at a small Giant Eagle.
