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Serendipity
Nov. 28th, 2007 10:35 amWell, having just recently spent my last two weeks contemplating how I could possibly continue being a house-dad and running my business a bit of serendipity landed my way this morning.
I have been finding that trying to do both has been extremely draining.
Largely this is a consequence of the type of work I do. Web design and development required a lot of creativity (for the design) as well as heavy logic-based thinking (for the coding). This generally leaves me a lot more tired than working a more manual-labour based job does. By the end of the day my brain is fried, greatly diminishing my ability to write at night. I don't like that situation as it tends to leave me a very frustrated person.
And yet, I still feel this need to bring in money to the house in some way.
How can I bring in some money, be a house-dad AND still find the brain power remaining to be creative?
And this is where serendipity comes in.
This morning, as I was walking past my local bookshop after getting my coffee, the owner called out to me.
One of his casuals is leaving. She has been there almost 10yrs. He thought that I might be the perfect person to replace her... if I was looking for some boring casual work in a bookshop, that is. We talked about hours and pay. About how I'd been going to that bookshop since it opened 12yrs ago and already knew its shelves better than the staff did (they often ask my help when they can't find something).
The hours required aren't too bad at all (about 20 hours a week). The pay is pretty decent for a small independant bookshop. It will involve getting out of the house and meeting people again. It isn't brain demanding work, so I'll still have some thinking power for my writing at night and the days I'm not there. And, I'll still be working with books.
I still have some thinking to do, and my wife doesn't get home until tonight, but it seems like one of those opportunities that comes along rarely and solves many problems in one hit. I am very seriously considering it.
I have been finding that trying to do both has been extremely draining.
Largely this is a consequence of the type of work I do. Web design and development required a lot of creativity (for the design) as well as heavy logic-based thinking (for the coding). This generally leaves me a lot more tired than working a more manual-labour based job does. By the end of the day my brain is fried, greatly diminishing my ability to write at night. I don't like that situation as it tends to leave me a very frustrated person.
And yet, I still feel this need to bring in money to the house in some way.
How can I bring in some money, be a house-dad AND still find the brain power remaining to be creative?
And this is where serendipity comes in.
This morning, as I was walking past my local bookshop after getting my coffee, the owner called out to me.
One of his casuals is leaving. She has been there almost 10yrs. He thought that I might be the perfect person to replace her... if I was looking for some boring casual work in a bookshop, that is. We talked about hours and pay. About how I'd been going to that bookshop since it opened 12yrs ago and already knew its shelves better than the staff did (they often ask my help when they can't find something).
The hours required aren't too bad at all (about 20 hours a week). The pay is pretty decent for a small independant bookshop. It will involve getting out of the house and meeting people again. It isn't brain demanding work, so I'll still have some thinking power for my writing at night and the days I'm not there. And, I'll still be working with books.
I still have some thinking to do, and my wife doesn't get home until tonight, but it seems like one of those opportunities that comes along rarely and solves many problems in one hit. I am very seriously considering it.
