Ok... let me explain. I know you're going to think I'm crazy.
I moved up here to start a business in elder care. I felt a genuine calling to do it. Jacque and I worked on it a couple of months but it was difficult to pay her with no money coming in. So she took a job... well, a couple more months on and there's still no money coming in, so I took a job today, too!
I had just been sort of half-heartedly applying for jobs to make sure I continued to qualify for unemployment. But dang! One of them called me back! I wasn't going to go to the interview because I really wanted to devote more time to getting the marketing plan further along on the business. We've really only given it full attention for two or three months. But I prayed on it and consulted my daughter. That was new. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and treat them both like grown-ups. Hard to do sometimes.
I checked out the school and it's really nice and cute and small. Fourteen miles from the house. So I listened and went to the interview. There were seven of them and one of me! But they all seemed really nice and they all liked it there. I didn't think they'd like me since I had no academic experience and they didn't think I'd take it because the money was so much different than my last job. But money isn't everything if I really get to make a difference at the school. But it really is low pay... just a few hundred dollars a month over unemployment. Academia does not pay! lol
But the job! It's exactly what I wanted to be doing for Shell. I tried to sneak in a few projects in addition to my regular job but now I can really concentrate on technical solutions to online learning and one of the first projects is to select an LMS! How cool is that!!? So I get to snoop around all these other Learning Management Systems and try them out and check functionality against what we need... so sweet! And develop a train the trainer for online professorship! I can barely sit still!
We're still going to work on the business, just at a slower pace. We can do most of the activities required at night and on the weekends. And when and if we get to the point that we need to decide who's going to quit their job to run it, we can discuss it as a team and decide.
Happy February! Now if it will just stop snowing so I can plant flowers!
