I guess

I guess I do still have TWO jobs. Got an email last week about a Skills Trainer meeting for Mentor and thought, well, I’m still on the email list, but wtf?

The meeting today was at ten, and I went, more out of curiosity than anything else, because I have not heard from the kid, his proctor family, or Mentor for over a month.

I even said, at one point in the meeting, "so, I still have a job here or what?" Nice things were said about the work I had done for them, about the proctor family’s opinions of my work, and all that sounds nice. but it’s not a paycheck. As they went trough the LST’s asking about their progress, it became obvious that "my" kid was working with someone else, so, unlike the other LSTs, I had nothing to report cuz I haven’t seen the kid for five weeks.

Ok, Well, I do have this other job, with ALSO, today, doing the afternoon shift at the house the in the Gorge that I have been working at the past month, the position that was supposed to go to full time last week, but didn’t. Someone else got the hours… but "someone else" can’t work today and tomorrow, so they called me.

Two jobs, but not much money coming in – I’m still below Poverty Level. I’m not doing any better than when I was on Unemployment – worse, in fact.

So it goes, I suppose, but I stopped watching the news in August; it’s all lies anyway.

"Recovery". Bullshit.

27 miles to drive to that house in The Gorge, and a little time for lunch before I need to be there at three. I’m betting that I’ll just be turning around and getting in their Subaru and driving almost all the way back home, to pick up one of the residents at "work" and take him home; I did that the last two Fridays.

54 miles round trip in my car, to work and back. I just turned over 63,400 miles on my car, all mine, and more than four years after I got it. I still like it. Want to keep it. Have treated it Right most all of this time, and even kinda sorta look forward to that 27 mile drive, one way. It’s almost all highway mileage, and I love seeing my car get over 36 miles per gallon driving through The Gorge.

I haven’t written much lately because everything is still up in the air – nothing is sure and frankly, I have no idea what I’m doing in the near future; some work, here and there, two days a week, but other than that….

But, I have two jobs, and that’s supposed to count for something, isn’t it?

 

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