Job lust
For the first time since becoming unemployed I have a twinge of missing working. Specifically, the fantastic feeling of 5 o'clock on a Friday, and to a lesser extent bitching with Audrey at lunch and right after work about how awful our jobs were. A beer or tv is so much nicer after a stressful shitty day. Oh jobs. What to do with you.
Francisco mentioned to me that Weta might be interested in hiring me as a producer, if I expressed the interest. There is a serious lack of employable people here apparently. So even though I have no experience at all, they have some sort of weird faith in me. Maybe because all my friends are smart they assume I am smart? This job requires an organized personality, which I have. It sounds kinda fun, organizing who will be working on what shots. Makin movies, being organizy, working in a casual fun setting. Except - it's 50 hours a week and that's during the good times. Too much work! I wish there was a compromise job. If there was a way to be a producer for 20-35 hours a week I would be so there. Or maybe just be one when times are busy. 2 weeks on at 50-60 hours a week, 2 weeks off to travel and work on farms and make movies and read books and walk on the beach. That is my ideal life scenario.
Alright, let's put this down on "paper" so I really understand what I want. I want:
- A job that's creative and organized and motivating and sometimes stressful, but mostly not.
- No strict set schedule
- Varies frequently in how much I work, from 0 hours on up to crazy
- Can leave and come as I please
- Can either have one job that involves both indoor and outdoor nature tasks, or two separate part-time jobs, one a desk job and one like a forest ranger or something. I can't sit in front of a computer for more than 20 hours a week, it makes me sick.
- Averaged over a few month period, the amount I work (excluding working for myself) should not exceed 30 hours a week.
- No stupid business casual, weird small-talky work atmosphere. Real people in real clothes with tatoos or sandels or whatever the hell they like wearing only please. People I could be friends with.
-A company that makes something fun, or good for the environment. No plastic junk manufacturing companies or places that push products that make people feel bad about themselves.
Willing to make exceptions to the time restrictions if it's a temporary job that teaches me awesome skills for making movies, or other art, or some highly specific technological skill useful for deployment in art or science or health/nutrition.
Ideal scenarios:
-Part-time office job that meets all or almost all requirements listed above.
-Part-time sustainable agriculture work or nature preservationist or scientific observer of environmental conditions
-Part-time working for myself making good food, giving nutrition advice, making movies, saving people from their computers, a million other ridiculous business enterprises I have thought up, all of which will probably fail but deserve at least one person in the world putting effort into them for a few months, if only because they are funny. More things deserve to exist than just the $profitable$ ones
(At any period in time, 2 out of the above 3 is what to aim for)
-Free time to learn about physics, yoga, writing, health, meditation, ideal future scenarios, ultimate monetary systems, sustainable living etc etc etc.
-Plenty of time for traveling cheaply, visiting all my heroes and having a family


2 Comments:
what? having a family? what?
Heh heh. I'm talking super long term here kate, it's not like I'm gonna have one tomorrow. But you know, it could be cool, no?
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