the assistant director's position at a non-profit social service agency. part-time hours, like what I need.....
prayers and good wishes are welcome!! I need a job! I've also contacted a home school curriculum agency in the area that wants to provide tutors to homeschoolers. That sounds good, if I can get the hours. It would be flexible hours, during "school time," I would think. I'm looking for something beyond secretarial -- where I can stretch myself professionally -- and where I can, perhaps, ocassionally bring my daughter with me if childcare falls through, etc.
My goal is to find professional part-time work where I can be home with my children after school. My daughter starts full day kindergarten in the fall, so at that time my schedule will be a bit easier.
I work for a non-profit and when I read your resume I thought you'd probably be a good match for our marketing or development departments with your teaching, writing, and computer skills.
Feel like moving to California? I've got a part-time opportunity in our development department right now. It's actually quite difficult for me to fill part time positions.
Ugh!! They just filled that position, but they said they'd keep me in mind for any other stuff.
Kat, what was your traing for?
Yes....for a while, I did have my heart set on becoming a doula. I think because of all the trauma I went through after having my daughter and the beautiful woman who came to help me during that time. BUT.... It would be my own business -- and that takes time, training, and marketing, which takes money and more time. Plus, unfortunately, so many of the women who would really need the doula service wouldn't be able to afford it. And I couldn't be a labor doula without specialized training (well, I could, but I wouldn't want to try that). And I couldn't be a labor doula because I couldn't be on-call like that as a single mother with young children.
Know what I really want? I just want a dern part-time job that I can count on for regular pay, but with growth potential. And I want to take some of that money and be able to go on weekend trips and little vacations with my children, or just go to the Science Museum or be able to afford music lessons for them. I'd like to be able to buy new underwear -- let alone a blouse or something -- without really thinking about its affordability.
(okay...finished venting for a bit.)
Tootsie!! Hey, California sounds wonderful about now, as long as those mudslides are over! You have a hard time filling part-time jobs? Well, I have a hard time FINDING them. Maybe we ought to compare notes. What's your nonprofit do?
Thanks Quinn, for your wishes. This whole process is just ... frustrating and disheartening at times and long and somewhat stressful. It's just the whole idea that all these decisions for the 3 of us (my, my son and daughter) are ALL on me. My family is not available to be emotionally supportive in this way... It's nice to have a little cheerleading section here.
This is what I see happening: I won't find what I want, and I'll end up just taking another nondescript part-time secretarial job when unemployment runs out in about 2 months. Is this a bad thing? I don't know. A lot of people work at jobs that they don't like. I'm used to it, but I want different.
And yet at other times, I think I WOULD like to have a secretarial job where I don't really have to think. I can sit at my desk and have 5 minutes to myself with a cup of coffee, and then start in on relatively mindless work while listening to the radio and look forward to seeing my kids later that day. It's not all bad...I'd be out of the house and I'd meet new people.
...but I'd still have that nagging feeling that I wanted to do more, and different.
I DON'T KNOW!! Hey someone, just give me a job so I don't have to think about it, okay? How's that?
Well, first of all I don't think a girl has any business being a doula. No Princess Doula.
A doula should have arrived into her womanhood and settled down comfortably into her own skin.
She must be prepared to mediate between the organic female processes she knows and supports, and the generally male dominated system which has a long history of trying to control it. (Sorry guys. But it's true.) She's a protector of what women own exclusively.
Her heart must be prepared to witness the power of life and death.
This job is one of women's oldest professions.
No guys, it's not prostitution.
This message has been edited by Red--Wolf on Jan 28, 2005 10:39 PM
Cali is having a heck of a time right now. More rain, train wrecks, jury selection for Micheal Jackson...but the sun will come out tomorrow. It always does over here.
Anyway, I work for a group of retirement communities. We're continuing care, which means that residents can come to live with us for the rest of their lives. Our communities contain independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, and even dementia units.
It truly is a wonderful place to work.
Part time position are hard to fill because generally part-timers are not eligible for health insurance (depending on how part-time the job is), and our PT jobs are during business hours. I find that most people that want PT want evenings & weekends.
Sorry to hear about the job. It just means there is something better out there for you. I know there's a website that lists nothing but non-profit positions. I truly think you have a background that would be interesting to a lot of non-profits. When I remember the website, I'll post it.
Sounds familiar. I got my mother into Presbyterian Homes a couple years ago. She loves it. It's a huge upscale community for seniors. She has an independent apartment.
I brought my aunt (her older sister) there for the last part of her hospice care. The care was over the top.
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I'm glad to hear your mom likes her community. Our communities handle all income levels. We have some really high-end communities with living spaces larger than my house, and some that are still beautiful, but more affordable.
Although I don't work with our residents on a daily basis, just working for this company has given me a greater appreciation for life. You can learn great life lessons from the elderly. We have a resident that just turned 94, and to celebrate her birthday went swimming with dolphins at Sea World. How cool is that?
