New job!

I’m now a substitute teacher! It’s been an incredible couple of weeks and every day I feel more and more eager for the next. Admittedly, it’s reduced the amount of time I get to spend on other things I love, and I notice that I’m falling behind on emails and such that I care about. Unexpectedly, though, I feel more energetic when I do have the hours to work on something, so I’m optimistic that over the next few weeks it’ll all balance out. Also, summer’s coming, so I probably won’t REALLY know until next year.

Subbing is ideal for me because it ticks three important boxes. One, I feel good about the work itself. It’s necessary, helpful, and none of my labor goes towards enriching the already-rich-and-powerful. Absolutely no shade to folks making a living however they can. It’s just really nice to feel no ambivalence about who profits from my labor. Two, it’s legit flexible. If When I book acting work, I can mark myself unavailable for however long I need. And three, it pays well enough that our bills don’t seem quite so ominous. Frankly, the impetus for persisting through the 5 month long application and onboarding process was that our cat got sick and we have tens of thousands of dollars of debt that we absolutely had not planned for. I can rest my mind thinking “Oh, that’s 150 days of work,” a lot more easily than, “fingers crossed that I book a national commercial or two or three.”