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 ...
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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. ...
Paid up dues on a Lifetime membership in the Underearning club
My 21 y.o. son hates hearing how much I make. Although I emphasize to him that - hello, I'm 44 and you're 21 - why on earth do you think you'd earn close to what I do? Besides, he doesn't even want to make a lot of money. He wants to cure cancer or something. ...
Would you be available?
Yesterday, while talking to the bankruptcy monitor at the company that I do contract work for, he asked me if I would be available to help them out early in the new year. (Last time we talked about my plans a long time ago, I'd hoped to be done renovating and have the house sold ...
Jobs I want to try in semi-retirement
Apart from a short stint as a dishwasher in college when I was 17 and a job as a lab instructor in University, I've worked in an office environment my entire working career. So here's a list of some jobs I'd like to do or places I'd like to work part-time during semi-retirement just to try something different.