Hi There!

Ok – stop hassling me! I know I haven’t been writing in here regularly. I am sorry. I will try and do better from now on!

Life has been very busy! I feel like I’ve entered into a permanent state of temporary. I’m still doing a bit of flute teaching and the very occasional bit of performance, but honestly – nowhere near enough to earn a living. So I’ve been trying to use my newly acquired Masters in Journalism to gain work of some description. In another area. Anything but journalism! I don’t think I’m suited to that… I know I’m not suited to that!

My volunteer work at the Menzies Research Institute has been fantastic and a real opportunity. I assist the communications and events manager and I’ve figured that’s the field I’d like to go into. Not only would I like to do it – I’ve figured out I’d be very good at it!  Unfortunately convincing other people of my great possibilities is a bit trickier! I’m over job applications. I have put SO many in and had a handful of interviews and had a lot of “very close seconds” but my gut instinct is saying I’m not going to get a job like this. Not in this economic climate anyway…

So – here I am. Feet in two camps. Accepting every ounce of teaching and performing that comes along. Volunteering at Menzies. And for the past few months, being employed there as a casual for data upload. Data upload… Paid work but not exactly mentally stimulating! I’m now working four days a week – but temporarily. So I can’t rearrange kids lessons and my teaching and stuff. I have to keep it all where it is because I’m not going to be doing this temporary job permanently. Am I?! I don’t think so! Eventually the new website will be up and running and they won’t need me to upload data any more.

So – I’m chewing over new ideas for earning money in the future. Surely there’s some way for me to earn an income?! A regular one… Not a permanently temporary one. All this temporariness is very stressful…

I think I’d like to run a B&B. I just need some money to buy a lovely building first. A nice big one. In the city. With lots of land around it. And a commercial kitchen. And a pool. And fairies and leprechauns…