The Pink Shoe Diaries

lord! today is boring as hell. my entire office is on a field trip to a mortgage HQ in new jersey and i am left here to my own devices, with a list of projects to to, none of which i have any motivation to do.


so here is what i hate: helpless people. i realize i should have said " who i hate" rather than "what i hate" but i don't consider helpless people to be people at all, and thus deserving of "what". i'm serious though. my office is filled to the brim with helpless people. people who can't read a phone list, people who can't send a fed ex, people who can't replace the toner in a fax machine, people who can't use the internet. and in my day to day life i am usually summoned to help and by help i mean "do it for them"


care for an example? just now one of the more self-sufficient agents called me and asked me to go to a website, access some files and email them to him. he proceeded to give me his password and whatnot for that website. i paused, and then asked him if he had access to email, how did he not have access to the internet and thus this website? he replied "i can't figure it out" which is code for "i am lazy and i know you will do it for me." want one more example?? my office manager called me from the airport to ask me to call one of the agents who had just "walked by them in the airport" and inform him to "meet the rest of us at legal seafoods"...because of cource CALLING OUT TO HIM would have been too much effort...much more effort than calling me to call him.


so the job search has been restarted in earnest. granted, despite this daily crap i am not desperate enough to leave outright with nothing to fall back on. and i am afforded the luxury of applying to only those jobs that interest me. to be quite honest..i am not trying to start my "career" now...but rather i want to do something interesting and different. i think my dad is inspiring me with his dabbling in tutoring, art and languages..although i might serve me well to keep in mind that however much i wish to be..i am not retired.


so i sent along my resume and cover letter to british airways and virgin atlantic for part time positions at logan airport in customer service...among the benefits listed were "complimentary airfare opportunitys for employees and their family members". and i also applied for an editorial assistant position at MIT. both jobs would require me to take a pay cut..i feel like making less money in exchange for doing something exciting and having better benefits is ok at this point in my life.


wow, lack of caffeine really makes me philosophical.