Hey everyone! I am so tired, all of the time. First, life stuff! Skip to the line break for website stuff only.
The tl;dr is that I managed to get hired for a job I was qualified for, got bait-n-switched (no literally I signed for one job and I showed up and they were like actually you’ll be doing 100% different job, and it turns out in America they can do that and it’s legal????? they can literally be like ‘this job is for tech support’ and then you show up and they make you a janitor and you have little to no legal recourse??? what is this country) into a job I wasn’t qualified but still killed it at (great performance reviews, clients and coworkers loved me), only to find out they’d done it to fill the slot temporarily while they were still looking for more qualified individuals, and upon finding one, they fired me! Then the more qualified person quit in under three weeks because it turns out qualified medical professionals don’t want a $16/hr job that also involves kitchen work you didn’t tell them about in the interview. I only know this because I’m still good friends with several of my now-ex-coworkers, which frankly is turning out to be more valuable than the job, although I did really enjoy caring for the elderly and helping people get food stamps and stuff.
Now I’m doing gig delivery for a bit because I have a long vacation planned with my dad at the end of September and like hell I was going to interview for a bunch of new positions only for them to tell me I couldn’t take dad on his dream vacation he’s been talking about wanting to do for actual decades, fuck that. A month of ubereats it is!
Okay so actual news! KS is finishing up its catch-up run here finally, feels like I was doing that forever. I’m still editing the last 2-3 chapters at time of writing, but I’m pretty sure by the time this goes up in a few days it’ll be 100% edited. I’ll have a special surprise sometime after that, but I’m not entirely sure when it’ll be done since I don’t have as much time for writing these days, obviously. I’m trying to figure out a way to write in between ubereats deliveries but it turns out it’s really actually very hard to use your laptop in a car. If anyone has any pointers or experience with this, I’d love some suggestions. Popping into a starbucks was my plan but it turns out it’s kind of a pain to do that for 5-15 minute intervals between jobs and then have to pack back up.
Work on the tip jar is slowly ongoing, but I’m kind of stumped at the visual level. I’d like to have some kind of visual for the tip jar filling up, but I’m really not sure how best to make it. My best guess at the moment is to buy a twitch stream element off etsy or something and jerry-rig that, but I think I’d have to fill it manually which is what I was hoping to avoid. At that point I might just try to make something in paint.net or canva. Again, if anyone has any ideas (or feels like drawing a tip jar at different levels of filled), please let me know!
Speaking of streaming, I’ve been doing that a little and I’d like to do it more, although it does run into the aforementioned lack of time. These days I often feel like if I have down time, I should be spending it cooking, cleaning, writing… You know how it is, it’s not even that #capitalism grindset so much as it is a lot of responsibilities and not enough time. Plus the best streaming times overlap pretty much 100% with the best times to be delivering food lmao.
Right now I’m writing about ~1000 words on days when I don’t work, which is slower than I’d like but it’s frankly a miracle I’m even getting that done. Maybe I should combine ’em and do streams where I just share the single line of writing as I write it (if I can figure out a way to do that lol) and it can be like a write-with-me stream like how I used to basically live in study-together streams during college.