The New York work day. Today I begin my first day as a full-time employee at my company. Up until now, I have been living the life of a freelancer and coming and going as I please. That all ends right now.
The last time I had such a regular schedule was my senior year of high school, nearly six years ago. I'm not sure how well my mind and body will handle this new schedule as I'm typically a night owl. If I can manage to adjust, it should be good for me. Waking up at 8am really isn't that bad and my life as a teacher (in two years or so) will require me to be at work by 7:30am. So, this is a good primer.
02/02/04 6:55 PM
Congrats on the promo thats awesome! A 10-6 day sounds equally awesome. Not so early its painful, yet still have the evening available. Ideal.
Now that you have more money will you buy me stuff?
02/02/04 9:26 PM
Nelly, I am not getting paid enough to buy anyone anything. Sadly, non-profit + nyc expenses = not much money. I'll buy you some suckers though.
02/03/04 11:37 AM
congrats to finding some regularity in manic new york. and insurance too!
02/03/04 12:04 PM
So tell us more about your new job! More details. I am currently going the opposite way--giving up the 9-5 (in my case, stifling) day job in favour of a more flexible work schedule and poverty (freelancing). Any tips?
02/03/04 12:35 PM
Well, I'm working for a Jewish non-profit here in NYC. The website is a two person team, with me handling all of the creative aspects of the site and my boss handling all of the strategery and whatnot. It's not the perfect job but I love my coworkers and the atmosphere is fairly relaxed.
The reason I chose to go the full-time route is because I'm not sure if web design is going to be my life-long career. In fact, I am fairly certain that I'll be teaching in a year or two. So, instead of scraping by, if I'm lucky, I decided to take a full-time position and give up a little in the creativity department. I can still do some freelance projects on the side, if I have time, but this way I know I'll be able to pay the bills and I can enjoy myself for the next year.
I don't know if this the perfect solution, but it'll definitely work for now.
02/04/04 8:12 PM
Congrats on becoming a working stiff.