Tuesday, February 10, 2009

What do I do?

The play area in the hospital where I take baby pictures
One of my jobs as an independent contractor. We had to pretend we were interested in buying a play set for the backyard.
The house below was another job that I had to pretend to be a potential home-buyer interested in that house.

Eating at restaurants is, also, part of some of my independent contractor jobs. A lot of them, I get to bring my family with me!!

Ever wondered what your house would look like if you had a book store inside it? This is about 10% of the used book inventory that is inside our house/garage/shed.
Pretending to be interested in buying yet another play set!

It is hard to explain to people when I meet them. The question of, "so what do you do?" I met up with my best friend from high school that I haven't seen since 1997. I saw her once in 1997, and before that, I hadn't seen her since 1992... So, it has been awhile. She found me on Facebook (I am finally a fan of the site since I have been able to find friends I had lost track of over the years)... Anyway, we met up last Friday and caught up on each other's lives. Of course, "what do you do?" was one of the questions, and I don't know why I always get stumped on it... I guess because before I could just say, I work for a foreclosure law firm, and that would be self-explanatory. Or, if you have a title to your job, you can say something like, "I am an accountant,.." (or whatever the profession is). So, here is an explanation of what I do now that I have changed profession and gotten out of the mortgage industry...

1. online book sales (used books on one web-site~ about 6,000 books in my inventory)

2. online Ebay sales of things that I can find that may have a good resale value (the items differ depending on the season/ sales available)

3. independent contractor for 30 + companies to merchandise, audit, or display their products. I am free to take assignments as I want them and reject any that I don't want. (a VERY flexible profession) Plus, there are another 80+ companies I can sign up with if I get bored with the ones I am working with.

4. most recently- a newborn baby photographer at an area hospital. This is the only job that I have where I am working under a supervisor, even though I am at the hospital all by myself. This is a part-time permanent job on the weekends and Mondays.

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Books to read:

  • Diary of a Mad Mother to Be by Laura Wolf
  • Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf
  • The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
  • Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
  • Restavec by Jean-Robert Cadet