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A belated update
May. 15th, 2007 07:35 pmSo I got a job. I haven't mentioned this in the LJ, as I really haven't felt the urge to write in it much lately. Haven't had the energy. To be honest, I don't feel like I have the energy even now. But I finally realized, if I don't sit down and do it, it won't get done at all, so I figure I might as well tell the world what I'm doing.
My job is with a company that aggregates and processes Less-Than-Truckload shipping accounts for various businesses and trucking vendors. It handles a lot of major accounts, in fact, including (of all things) Focus on the Family (though that's not one I normally work with). I'm data entry, at $8 an hour. I sit at a computer all day typing in the vital statistics from trucking company invoices (invoice number, date, amount, type of cargo, expense account codes). I got it through a local temp agency, and if I do well enough at it they'll hire me on "for real." It's not exactly the most strenuous work in the world, especially for a good typist, and I'm picking up some great ten-key skills. I can even get overtime (at time and a half) if I want it. It's not the highest-paying job in the world, either, but it's bringing in twice what my unemployment did per week, so I can stop falling behind on the bills and even come out a little ahead every month if I'm frugal.
( Why the job makes other things in my life hard, and grumbling about a medical study. )
In other news, this week City Utilities is observing "Ride Your Bike to Work Week." How are they doing this? By giving people with bicycles free bus rides. After you get done laughing at the irony, you can reflect that it will encourage the people who would bike part-way if they could. As for me, given that I take my bike to and from work on the bus anyway (as an artifact of my having to change busses twice to get from home to work, going from work to home will drop me off about half a mile away unless I want to spend twenty minutes longer on the bus), at least it will save me a little money.
My job is with a company that aggregates and processes Less-Than-Truckload shipping accounts for various businesses and trucking vendors. It handles a lot of major accounts, in fact, including (of all things) Focus on the Family (though that's not one I normally work with). I'm data entry, at $8 an hour. I sit at a computer all day typing in the vital statistics from trucking company invoices (invoice number, date, amount, type of cargo, expense account codes). I got it through a local temp agency, and if I do well enough at it they'll hire me on "for real." It's not exactly the most strenuous work in the world, especially for a good typist, and I'm picking up some great ten-key skills. I can even get overtime (at time and a half) if I want it. It's not the highest-paying job in the world, either, but it's bringing in twice what my unemployment did per week, so I can stop falling behind on the bills and even come out a little ahead every month if I'm frugal.
( Why the job makes other things in my life hard, and grumbling about a medical study. )
In other news, this week City Utilities is observing "Ride Your Bike to Work Week." How are they doing this? By giving people with bicycles free bus rides. After you get done laughing at the irony, you can reflect that it will encourage the people who would bike part-way if they could. As for me, given that I take my bike to and from work on the bus anyway (as an artifact of my having to change busses twice to get from home to work, going from work to home will drop me off about half a mile away unless I want to spend twenty minutes longer on the bus), at least it will save me a little money.
