First and foremost, my grand trip WWOOFing is no longer happening this year - and possibly ever. I need to post this news for two reasons: to explain to my donors why their funds are being returned and to assure any potential employers that I no longer have plans to leave for Alaska and Hawaii.
Two days after Easter 2017, I entered an outpatient mental health facility and began going to group therapy. Focusing on self care cost a good deal of money - not to mention effort! With focus and plenty of outside help, I began to see issues that I had refused to face. I am by no means cured and every day can be a new can of worms in waiting. The difference being that now I have tools and reach out to my supports more readily.
Professionally, I am steering my focus toward two avenues.
SWF in search of:
- Any paid writing job.
I mean it. You need it written; I’m your girl. I don’t care how boring or monotonous you think it is. I currently work with numbers…. No work with words could ever bore me like accounting does. My “lack of experience” (read: my lack of *paid* experience) turns people off, which leads me to “Your. Loss.” Yeah, you may have to teach me a few things, *Boss*. But I am an investment. Once I am trained, you have a self-sufficient hard working employee who knows exactly what is expected of her. To the person who finally takes a chance on me, congratulations on the best decision you’ve ever made.
- A job that keeps me active and gets me outside, preferably with opportunities for social media and communications.
I would still love to spend my Golden Year (I’m 27 on Aug. 27) working on a farm. Or at an animal sanctuary. I have such a strong drive to work. Example: I have a full time job, two side hustles (dog sitting and yard work) and I’m looking to add another, cleaning houses. I love being busy and doing work that has a clear positive outcome. I want a job that keeps my body busy, incorporates my creativity through communications and clears my mind enough that I can work on my creative writing in my downtime. To the person who takes a chance on me: best. decision. ever.
I want adventure and I believe that can come in a variety of ways. However, I found it is not working a “comfortable” corporate accounting job and traveling on the weekends.