Adult in Training

Anyone who has been keeping up with my – admittedly lame – shenanigans could probably guess that I haven’t had much to do lately.  My boss sort of temporarily ran out of work for me (she calls it some time off, I call it slowly going insane).  If I actually found my job taxing, I would probably welcome some spare time.  Or even if I had something to fill the void that having no work to do has left.  There are already plenty of people labouring under the impression that I sit around all day and do nothing, and it is becoming harder and harder for me to refute their claims.

And so, due to that – and also in part to my aunt Pauline’s insistence – I have spent some time thinking about what I am going to do when I leave New Hampshire in May.  Other than insist that there be a Dairy Queen cake with the words “Welcome Back from the Dark Side” written on it in my immediate future.  Something more along the lines of being employed.  In a steady manner, so that I don’t invent an imaginary friend just to keep me company. 

So let’s brainstorm people!

Here are some of my skills:

• I’m pretty good with words
• I work well as a member of a team
• I learn new skills pretty quickly
• I have lots of trivial information stored in my brain, should someone need some
• I have never shown up for a job intoxicated
• I don’t have any issues with physical exertion (in fact, I enjoy it)
• I don’t mind working odd hours
• I will have a BA in Communcations, with emphasis on print journalism

I’m sure there are others, but I was never very good at that whole “describe your talents” part of applications.  Here are a list of things I refuse to do:

• work 9-5 in an office doing work that could easily be delegated to a trained monkey
• work with other people’s garbage
• tasks that require a ladder to complete properly
• change strange children’s diapers
• change strange octogenarian’s diapers
• do the exact same thing every single day without fail (except if that thing is watching ANTM, which I don’t think is a job)

Any suggestions?  I am open to really any suggestions, as long as they fit the preceding parameters.  If it’s an outside job, it’s a bonus.  Also a bonus: if the job is seasonal.  Unless it’s the same job but things change.  For instance: last year I won Work Study Student of the Year.  Because the athletic department at my school loves me.  And because since I worked games management, my job changed every three months.  I worked different games each new season.  Except in the Spring when I worked no games, since it rained so much that the lacrosse teams couldn’t play. And I prefer to tan at softball games, so I don’t work them. And our baseball team sucks so badly that watching their games are more painful than anything else (plus, it’s baseball, and after being pressed into service for the Red Sox Nation I resent everything that has to do with baseball).  But, I digress. 

The point is this people: pool your collective brainpower and come up with a really good job for me.  Because I have some time on my hands to work on my resume and fill out on-line applications.  But only a lot.