I'm now a consultant. I have two actual legal matters piled on my desk at the moment, and calls to make and reports to read and write and people to see.
The bad news is that I have to ease my unemployment-addled brain (a state I totally could get into, and marrying a retired guy with a thick, comfy balance sheet and a desire to indulge me has been added to the To Do list) back to thinking again. Because I took a wee dip into the 1st CD of documents this afternoon, and it was a muddled mess, there is no index and they are named helpful things like FU001023456XX, and there are thousands of them and I will have to skim them all to figure out what is relevant to our little portion of the project, and my brain said, "Ow! I don't WANNA! No, no! Don't we have something really vitally important and house related to do? Did you get Baby's oil changed yet, Missy? And I haven't said anything but look around, this place is a fucking dump - look at the cat hair! The windows have nose prints, and oh, Boris sneezes alot. The kitchen isn't listing ready. The bathrooms aren't done. And I don't see any yogurt in that yogurt maker!"
"We have too much to do to take on this actual, real world paying work that takes, like, knowledge and thinking and stuff! It's sunny! Let's go for a walk! And are we out of beer?"
So, I did get Baby's oil changed, because that voice in my head isn't always trying to shirk real work, sometimes it is just reminding me that the Loyal Little Subaru needs love. And I will make yogurt tomorrow. And I'll also dig into the real, paying work. And there are other cases behind this one, and if I didn't need boring grownup stuff like group health insurance I totally would consider shmoozing this into a living, but there is, of course, the problem with the brain that doesn't really want to be a Working Girl. And this, if you haven't already figured it out by now, is why I am not Writing A Book. Unless somebody wants me to write a book about how to avoid writing a book, then, damn, that sucker would write itself.
In actual not-knitting but hooking news, I am still cranking out hexagons by the boatload, in lovely, beachy colors. I think this is going to be quite fine. It also would look perfect in Girlchild's room, but if she doesn't want it, it will reign all beachy and serene in my guest room to be. Tomorrow (okay, by Monday because it is supposed to rain tomorrow) there will be pictures. And I will eat my words (ranted around Christmas, back in the old place) about Yankee Candles, because I found not one, but two scents I really like, and that would make awesome blog photos with the afghan parts and it would be so damn artsy and theme-y and perfect, but there's at least a 50% chance of rain, and a 79.5% chance that I will be too lazy to do this.
The crochet groove is back, baby. And I do blame Ravelry - it's so hard to find good crochet by randomly Googling. Ravelry, despite its sometimes high-strung forums, does have a good database of crochet inspiration.
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ReplyDeleteThe good news about consulting is twofold: 1) you get paid by the hour, and 2) you get paid by the hour to give your opinion. Consulting is good. The working at home part is hard at first, but you'll get it. Take care.
Oh man, do I know the "I don' wanna" brain chat. You have my sympathy. I know you'll prevail. But oh my, wouldn't one of those fat wallet sugar daddy types be handy just about now?
ReplyDeleteOh God, for a sugar daddy. I know, I feel I'm betraying every feminist, women's-college-educated bone in my body... but I can't help it. To not have to slog through work and office politics, and just be able to do the house-y stuff I find pleasurable?!
ReplyDeleteAlso, on the subject of Yankee Candles. A bag full of unwrapped tiny pie-shaped YCs has proved to be the best thing for under the sink, where the garbage and garbage disposal is. This may or may not be a recommendation for them!
Um, garbage and garbage disposal *are.* So much for college-eddicated. LOL.
ReplyDeleteone possibility you might consider when you get ready to move is to check out the states that offer high risk pools for health insurance. This is NOT for the faint of heart though. It actually takes a lot of rationalization for some of us. :)
ReplyDeleteMy better half got tired of "working for the man" two years ago. Since I developed heart problems with the birth of my son 12 years ago, the only good option for us was group ins. Our CORBA payment would have been around $1100 per month for all three of us. We moved spouse and son to a private policy with BCBS for about $150 month with $3500 per year deductible and I stayed on the COBRA at about $350 month. When my COBRA is exhausted I will be eligible for Texas High Risk Pool that BCBS offers. My est. monthly payment will be about $350 per month, but I will have a deductible of $5000 depending on the the plan I choose.
The costs suck, but they cannot deny me coverage. The upside to this arrangement is that we won't lose coverage because of future job changes, and because my spouse and son were in good health when they went on BCBS, they can't be dropped unless we miss a payment. Of course, premiums rise each year as we age. He is 51 and I am 49.
One thing that I like about the BCBS plan is that even though you have to meet the deductible before it kicks in, you actually get a discount at the doctor's office. For example, if your office visit is $70 just to take the kid in for his allergy meds, then they charge you 70% which is $49. That's only $19 more than the $30 copay I was paying for group coverage.
If you were able to do only contract work and charge out the wazoo for it you might be able to justify the higher costs.
Here is a link to a list of states
http://www.naschip.org/states_pools.htm
Just something to ponder for the future.