Six or seven months ago I had lunch with one of my good friends. At lunch, she told me that she had a potential job for me at the company where she works. In September when I got back from holiday, she emailed to confirm that I wasn't working yet – and again in October, ...
Category Archives: work
Above and Beyond – who says they don’t like Mondays?
I LOVE Mondays!!! On Monday, I heard word that I won the Best of Money Carnival #51 hosted by Mrs. Micah over at Finance Freelance Life for my story of how retirement hasn’t turned out quite as I expected in the post Is retirement like a beer commercial with white ...
Do I REALLY need to work?
My son and I were out walking the dog today, talking about the summer job he hopes to get once the university semester is over and how much he should be saving up for the fall. He's a bit of a loner - but not alone, and was excited at the thought of ...
Back to work – thoughts on contracting and outsourcing
About 2 weeks ago, I put my resume out on workopolis just for giggles. I went for an interview last week for a 6-8 week contract doing taxes for a mid-sized oil and gas company. Everything seemed good - he liked me, I liked him, but I'm not really qualified to do complex oil and ...
What’s a foot in the door worth?
Another email came in from a former co-worker asking if I'd be interested in a contract job from mid-March to June where she works. As it's an intermediate accounting job, the pay would be less than I'm making now, but even if it's over $100/hour, that's not too shabby. The time frame is short, and ...
A job offer
It doesn't seem fair somehow. I know people in my field who are actively looking for other jobs and unable to find them. I don't want to be working anymore and I get job offers coming in without even wanting to work or making any effort to find a job.On the one ...
Apparently I would work for free
One of the questions that self-help books suggest that you ask to determine whether or not you like or even love your job is: "Would you do it for free?"It's not often that most people come across this circumstance in their regular lives. ...