I got the job

I had my interview this morning. Last night I HAD to go out and get a new outfit for the interview. I am already in the whole. But, I got the job. I start Tuesday. I am still going to be able to do volunteer work and most of my new job will be from home.

I am not going to be taking photos of cars. I am going to be doing data entry from home and some secretary work at their home office a few hours per week. Works out perfect for me and I am glad I will be able to contribute to the family.

We have always had an emergency stash of savings. This summer we seem to be having one emergency after another. The house needed to be painted and we had dry roted decaying boards, our car died,and then there was the hurricane evacuation. Our emergency money has all disappeared so this job seems to have landed at just the right time.

It is weird because I decided to look for a job and this was the first job that popped up on my screen, my new boss needed someone like me (a jack of all trades willing to work as an independant contractor without a guaranteed weekly salary). She turned on her computer and mine was the first application she saw out of more than 20 and I was called within 10 minutes. If it works out it is like the universe aligned for both of us in that moment. If it turns out to be a disaster ...

There really aren't any other jobs available during the hours I can work. Especially not at this rate of pay. So life is good today. Next week it looks like we are going to have to evacuate for another hurricane. I just want to go on the record saying that there is a difference between a tropical storm and a cat 3 hurricane. Also I would like to point out to the people working at the weather channel that Mississippi is located between Louisiana and Alabama. They chose to ignore our existence all together during both Katrina and Gustav. I hate the weather channel.