For the past year, I have been working from my father's office. He had an extra cubicle from which I could work and send out resumes since I had been job hunting for a long time. However, he did not want me doing it from home as I had literally spent a year in bed with the blinds closed and the covers over my head. He wanted me to get out of the house. He wanted me up, showered, dressed in business attire (professional office), and I could work from there. Besides, my home computer was now on it's last legs. 14 years old, a pentiumIII, and slow as molasses on a cold January day. So while I could still do some things on my computer, I was having problems "sending" things. Anytime it had to go through an SSL the computer would time out and it would not go through - like writing an email.
I was able to work from a cubicle on a computer he had. While I wanted a new computer at home, I couldn't afford one at the time. So, on a daily basis I went to the office and sent out resumes and kept my sanity. Then the computer there caught a virus. The computer crashes and now it becomes necessary for my father to replace that particular machine. A brand new, state of the art computer with a 20" flat screen monitor get's delivered to the office, set up and I am now thrilled that I can send out my resumes from there.
Still, I couldn't find a job. I sent out hundreds of resumes, went on dozens of interviews, and never got the job. Well, I believe that the Universal Intelligence (call it what ever you would like) always knows what is best for us. As a result of an interview, I got a gig teaching a seminar which I love to do. That seminar was so well recieved that I decided to reopen my consulting business which I had shut down a couple of years ago. So for the past three weeks I have been getting it up and running once again.
Some of you may remember that I have a truely interesting relationship with my father who is mostly passive aggressive. Try as hard as I can to please him, there is nothing that i can do which will. I think it has everything to do with the fact that I am an unmarried, unemployed (in his mind) female that he feels obligated to continue to take care of like I was still 12 years old. He doesn't treat my sis or bro like this - both are married and they are not nearby - but I am only 10 minutes away.
Then last Saturday, I went to help my father with something at the office. It was then that he informed me that I would no longer have access to the cubicle as they had rented it out to one of the other tenants in the space. At first I was a bit annoyed and then realized that I would be able to work from home, not have my father looking over my shoulder telling me (in so many words) how disappointed he is in me, and that I would get to take the BRANDY NEW COMPUTER as well! Woohoo.
So, now, as I take my lunch break from my business (which has me working harder than I have before) - I write on "my" brand new computer which came home yesterday. I had some issues with hooking up the internet - I was using a technology which which slightly outdated. But this has been resolved, and now life just keeps gettting better and better.
