Moving On

My first week of unemployment is off to a hot start. 109 degrees at noon, 90 at midnight- no relief in sight.

I've only been jobless for three days and I'm already losing track of the time and days...what year is it? I feel like I'm frickin' sixteen years old- is it 1982 again?

There have been some good moments lately- the heat has forced me to find cool places to spend my days ; consequently I have found myself drifting between recording studios, radio stations, music stores and women's apartments- it breaks my heart to think that I could be sitting in a windowless supply closet, doing data entry and working with Excel spreadsheets...sigh...I really miss data entry.

Hhahahaaa! Right...

Funny thing- while I was scanning the jobs ads I saw a new posting- for Mr. Hole's job! I was going to write a rat letter to the company re: Mr. Hole, but it appears that they are already replacing him...irony can be pretty damn ironic. ( Who said that? Berra?)

Truth is, I'm in a strange and scary place but it's exhilarating and exciting too; perhaps I'm lurching into the territory of platitudes, but to me, every day does have the potential to be great-I still haven't gotten over how utterly complacent I had become in life and how much I've been missing. I needed some boredom and routine following my release from the hospital- the steadiness of it helped me with the first months of sobriety- but it's been 23 months since I last drank and I am ready for some serious change- I need it.

It's sad that it took corporate stupidity on an epic scale to finally get me off my ass and take action- I don't want to jinx myself, but recently I met a man who's boss is opening a recording studio/nightclub/ music store and he said they needed an engineer who had strong local connections and was good at working with bands- he didn't know it, but I am a really good sound engineer and I am also co-director of local music at an indie radio station.

So I told him how great I am. I am good at pretty much everything related to music recording and I am not afraid to say so. Strangely, this time I wasn't being sarcastic- I would be great for that job and I meant it!
Gears clicked - I am to meet with the owner soon and get the details and submit samples of my audio work. I've had a lot of near-misses with studios, so I'm not counting chickens yet, but it was a damned auspicious beginning to my job search and I feel pretty good about it. Maybe my next job won't be in an office at all.

I have an appointment with the owner of another store tomorrow- I am selling radio ads- but I wonder if there will be any bonus opportunities there? The world's a lot bigger than my data entry closet lead me to believe.

More good news to follow. I believe that.

And no, I'm not stoned...