Yes, there is trouble in my paradise of free mornings while my angelic little tyke is at preschool. The course my husband teaches got cancelled (damn economy, it was only a matter of time before our family was impacted), so I’m going to be looking for work.
Which led me to wonder: what exactly can I do?
- write stories (good ones, sometimes)
- read lots of books, and read fast
- bake chocolate chip cookies
- consume vast quantities of chocolate chip cookies
- critique and edit manuscripts
- complain about my messy house
- shush a three-year-old until she finally decides to go to sleep for the night
- I can totally make friends with cats (just ask my neighbor’s cats – they fell in love with me today when I was locked out of my house…long story)
- teach English
- arrange coffee dates with friends
- compose lullabies (and check dictionary.com when for the millionth time I cannot be sure of how to spell “lullabies” – turns out I was right the first time)
- write endlessly about myself (last I checked, there was not much of a market for memoirs of people who haven’t really done anything unusual or groundbreaking)
- speak some Spanish, less French
- type a gazillion words per minute
- wear stylish new reading glasses
- realize when the list is getting boring, and stop a few bullets after that point.
So if anyone out there wants to pay me to do any of those things, well, I’m your girl. Available in the mornings, during not-so-quiet play time, and after eight p.m.
Technical writing? There’s lots of engineers utterly incapable of writing a single sentence in active voice.
Yeah, I’d do it!
Oh man, that’s a bummer!! Love the reading glasses, very mature, very “smart” looking. Have you decided on anything yet or should I ask to sit at your table next time I eat out somewhere??
Waitressing. Yikes. Been there! Not ready to go back. We haven’t decided on anything, but we should be okay for a year or so. I might have some tutoring work coming my way, so we’ll see….