Playing by Ear
April 4th 2007 09:52
Of course, as soon as I told my day-time job boss that I’d be leaving in June, he tells me he was going to offer me a full-time job. What’s with the ironies, huh?
I asked him later if he’d consider me for work when I got back, now that he knows who I am and how well I work. He couldn’t promise anything, but said it was worth a phone call. Whether I want to go back there or not is another thing, but it’s possible beggars can’t be choosers.
On the other hand, when I told the evening job boss, her immediate comment was: I’ll keep you on our books and you can let me know when you’re back. We’d be happy to have you back again.
What a contrast, really. I don’t blame the day-time boss at all; things are in quite a crisis state at the office I’m working in at the moment, in terms of staffing, and he no doubt would like to get things settled a lot sooner than six months down the track.
But equally, there was no need for the evening-job boss to offer me anything. After all, I’ve only been there for less than four months, and in the last two months, I’ve only worked one night a week. ‘Casual’ doesn’t begin to describe it.
We don’t know what we’ll do overseas; going with very few plans, except that because my wife has a lot of family over there, we’re not going to be short of places to stay in the interim. We’d actually like to work part of the time, and gather it’s not impossible to get short-term work. On the other hand, some real R & R would be great: away from the normal routines, away from everything that feels stale here, away from the pressure to make money (we have some cash over there, which helps).
We’re playing it by air – let’s hope the tune we play is a decent one.
My apologies for saying that this blog would focus on words and wordplay. Sorry, it can't seem to get away from its old topic!
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