Can't wait for 2008 ~
Sooo ~ this year really sucked for me. I went through seven massage therapy jobs trying to find one that kept me booked enough to make my expenses. No luck. I suggested marketing ideas but they fell on deaf ears. Working for a chiropractor really, really sucks ! Really hard work, back to back appointments and low pay. Never again !
Oh yea, the severe hip/low back pain turned out to be the beginning stages of arthritis ! So I'm not really sure what that means for my new career ~ I'm on Alleve twice a day and that seems to help, but can't afford massages or PT as my doctor suggested. They wanted me to start taking cod liver oil, but that stuff is nasty ! Even when it's flavored ! I'm doing some inflatable ball exercises and that helps, but I keep forgetting to do them.
I'm also caught up in the sub-prime mortgage mess....can't refi cuz I don't have good employment history, so I've been going back and forth with my mortgage lenders about a loss mitigation plan, but getting no where. I may have to file Chapter 13 to prevent foreclosure. God that sucks ! Thankfully, I've worked for lawyers in the past and have helped a friend file Chapter 7 and my ex-boyfriend file divorce, so I know I can file on my own without adding legal fees to my financial woes.
So the new plan for 2008 is to work at an admin job that pays well (King County Elections starts on Tuesday and I'm applying for every State, County or Court admin job I can find - they pay very well), get on top of my expenses and then start my own studio. Perhaps with a classmate of mine I'm still in touch with. I got into massage because I didn't want to work for someone else, but felt I needed to get some training in the real world before I went out on my own. Boy am I paying for that now !
About the only good thing that happened was totaling my car in June and buying a 2004 PT Cruiser ! (but now I have car payments and my insurance is twice what is was for the Taurus.) But every time I look at the Cruiser I smile. It's my dream car ! and it's PURPLE !
Dominic and Nikolai make me smile too so I always get some good loving from them. I just started volunteering at Kent Animal Shelter and I really think I'm gonna like it. I just love animals and the ones at the shelter really need some touch therapy !
Hope things look much better for me in 2008. I don't think they can get any worse.
Perhaps I'll even find a new boy to play with ~ ahhh, one can dream, can't they?
Oh yea, the severe hip/low back pain turned out to be the beginning stages of arthritis ! So I'm not really sure what that means for my new career ~ I'm on Alleve twice a day and that seems to help, but can't afford massages or PT as my doctor suggested. They wanted me to start taking cod liver oil, but that stuff is nasty ! Even when it's flavored ! I'm doing some inflatable ball exercises and that helps, but I keep forgetting to do them.
I'm also caught up in the sub-prime mortgage mess....can't refi cuz I don't have good employment history, so I've been going back and forth with my mortgage lenders about a loss mitigation plan, but getting no where. I may have to file Chapter 13 to prevent foreclosure. God that sucks ! Thankfully, I've worked for lawyers in the past and have helped a friend file Chapter 7 and my ex-boyfriend file divorce, so I know I can file on my own without adding legal fees to my financial woes.
So the new plan for 2008 is to work at an admin job that pays well (King County Elections starts on Tuesday and I'm applying for every State, County or Court admin job I can find - they pay very well), get on top of my expenses and then start my own studio. Perhaps with a classmate of mine I'm still in touch with. I got into massage because I didn't want to work for someone else, but felt I needed to get some training in the real world before I went out on my own. Boy am I paying for that now !
About the only good thing that happened was totaling my car in June and buying a 2004 PT Cruiser ! (but now I have car payments and my insurance is twice what is was for the Taurus.) But every time I look at the Cruiser I smile. It's my dream car ! and it's PURPLE !
Dominic and Nikolai make me smile too so I always get some good loving from them. I just started volunteering at Kent Animal Shelter and I really think I'm gonna like it. I just love animals and the ones at the shelter really need some touch therapy !
Hope things look much better for me in 2008. I don't think they can get any worse.
Perhaps I'll even find a new boy to play with ~ ahhh, one can dream, can't they?