So I'm now officially employed

**bossass** · 01-15-2008, 01:49 PM

Gunder inspired me.

Saturday was my last day at the coffee shop I've been working for the past two years. For the past four I've also had very infrequent freelance work as a writer.

I guess I'm not officially employed. My new position is still contractual. No benefits, but I'll make twice what I made at the coffee shop, working from home or wherever I have wireless on my own hours. I'll get to travel a bunch and go skiing this winter. Hopefully I'll make a bunch of new contacts and will be able to keep doing similar things in the future if the current one falls through. It's a bit of a risk, but passing just to keep working a dead end job was not an option. This week marks the first time in since I graduated college I'm not working service industry or customer service (not counting an internship and some stints of unemployment/Tony Hawk Pro Skater mastering).

To be fair, I loved working at the coffee shop and I'm gonna really miss it. I'll probably cover shifts there now and then. I'm good friends now with the two owners and most of my co-workers there. The owners were great, just poor. If they could've afforded it, they would've given me benefits, paid vacation, etc. I don't blame them for a thing, and at the same time they were fully understanding of my leaving.

Well, anyway. I'm 28 and while I'm making what most of you would consider a tiny income, it's way more than what I'm used to and my position is what i actually want to be doing with my life. I might actually be able to open a savings account, something I haven't had since high school.

**gamma** · 01-15-2008, 01:53 PM

bossass. you gear 'ho. good luck in all your successful ventures forthwith.

**TyWebb** · 01-15-2008, 01:54 PM

You were a gear whore BEFORE you had a job.....jeez. Watch out sAc. Congrats.

**Gman** · 01-15-2008, 01:57 PM

Congrats man. Way to seek out some risk and take some chances. Lots of my friends tell me they are envious that I moved out to Colorado where I didn't know anyone, the thing is they could easily do the same thing but they are stuck in the rat race trying to get the jobs they think their parents want them to have rather then doing what makes them happy. Props to you for doing what makes you happy.

**Particle** · 01-15-2008, 02:01 PM

Sweet JV! Glad to hear you got the gig...should be a really fun one.

**jibij** · 01-15-2008, 02:54 PM

Congrats bossman. Never underestimate the value in making contacts. My biggest life-changing moments have all come about as the result of connections I've made in the past.