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Oct. 14th, 2019 05:09 pmAfter almost 6 weeks of unemployment, I have just about reached the point where I've had enough of a staycation and going to an office every day starts to sound like an interesting idea.
I still know computer programming, and I'm told that's still a lucrative field to be in.
However, I'm still daunted by the idea of a full-time job. Eight hours a day at the office, plus lunchtime, plus commuting probably means getting home after 6pm, by which time it's too late to cook-- a) Vic will have already filled up on Dunkin' Donuts and instant ramen, and b) I either have time to cook or support Vic's doing homework, not both. Then most of the laundry, shopping, housecleaning, baking, bill-paying, etc. would get shoved off to the weekend, which would not be compatible with the political canvassing I've been doing. And who would take Vic to their weekly therapy appointments? Vic does not seem mature enough to reliably get there on their own regardless of weather conditions; they keep losing their T pass. Where would I fit in exercise? Ideally in the morning before going to work, but I'm not managing to multi-task exercise and nagging Vic up and out the door at the same time. When would I ever get to do anything fun? Plus, I made a commitment to step into a hole in Arisia staffing, and this is my climbing-the-learning-curve year.
Single moms with full time jobs must just not sleep more than a few hours per night. (Unless they have joint custody and hand off the kid(s) to the other parent part of each week; not an option here.) If I don't get enough sleep, I can't write computer language code. I'm having enough trouble thinking of what I could do for a living before adding the caveat "have to be able to do it while sleep-deprived."
The ideal thing would be a part-time job: 20 hours per week, just enough to get health insurance. From 10am to 2pm at the office would fit nicely into my schedule and not conflict with parenting nor volunteering. With Vic's Social Security benefits, half of a programmer's salary is plenty of money; and that would be a longer-term solution to health insurance than COBRA.
I don't know if there are part-time programming jobs, though. Do they exist?
I still know computer programming, and I'm told that's still a lucrative field to be in.
However, I'm still daunted by the idea of a full-time job. Eight hours a day at the office, plus lunchtime, plus commuting probably means getting home after 6pm, by which time it's too late to cook-- a) Vic will have already filled up on Dunkin' Donuts and instant ramen, and b) I either have time to cook or support Vic's doing homework, not both. Then most of the laundry, shopping, housecleaning, baking, bill-paying, etc. would get shoved off to the weekend, which would not be compatible with the political canvassing I've been doing. And who would take Vic to their weekly therapy appointments? Vic does not seem mature enough to reliably get there on their own regardless of weather conditions; they keep losing their T pass. Where would I fit in exercise? Ideally in the morning before going to work, but I'm not managing to multi-task exercise and nagging Vic up and out the door at the same time. When would I ever get to do anything fun? Plus, I made a commitment to step into a hole in Arisia staffing, and this is my climbing-the-learning-curve year.
Single moms with full time jobs must just not sleep more than a few hours per night. (Unless they have joint custody and hand off the kid(s) to the other parent part of each week; not an option here.) If I don't get enough sleep, I can't write computer language code. I'm having enough trouble thinking of what I could do for a living before adding the caveat "have to be able to do it while sleep-deprived."
The ideal thing would be a part-time job: 20 hours per week, just enough to get health insurance. From 10am to 2pm at the office would fit nicely into my schedule and not conflict with parenting nor volunteering. With Vic's Social Security benefits, half of a programmer's salary is plenty of money; and that would be a longer-term solution to health insurance than COBRA.
I don't know if there are part-time programming jobs, though. Do they exist?
