A funny thing happened on the way to the bus stop…

[thrihyrne]

This morning was my third and final (I'm nearly 100% certain) interview for the customer service position out in Tigard. All that for something which will probably pay only $10-11 an hour, which if they do offer it, I'll need to think long and hard about versus making $10 an hour and working from home. The commute given the hours will not be fun and will be quite time-consuming. OTOH, there's far more room for growth and I wouldn't have to rely on my own equipment. There's no firm offer yet so I won't worry about it if or until that happens. The interview with the operations manager went pretty well, especially considering I got up at 5:45 this morning to be able to catch a bus what was supposed to come by at 6:38 but didn't arrive until 6:45— and I had two other connections to make in order to get there in time for an interview at 8:30. It all worked out. So afterwards I walked back out to the main thoroughfare and stopped by the Burger King there to use the bathroom before the sojourn home. I was washing my hands when a woman came in and asked me, "Did you see a pair of glasses?" and we both looked into the empty stall. No glasses. Then I looked at her. They were hanging on the front of her shirt. I pointed them out to her, and she was so grateful and gracious. It made me smile. I've done that before in the past with my reading glasses before I had a chain for them.

My next adventure when Julia gets home is to go to the DMV to switch out my Virginia ID for an Oregon one. It can be incredibly difficult to prove one's residency if one doesn't pay any utilities and all of one's bank statements are online. But this clause makes it doable: A verbal statement from any person residing at the same residence address you listed on your application. The person making the statement must accompany you and present one acceptable proof of residence address. So she's going to take me (conveniently there's a branch very close by) and make said verbal statement and show them her driver's license. After that she's going to rake leaves and I'll put them in the yard waste bins. She asked if I would help and I said I would, especially if it didn't involve actual raking as it, like dusting, is a chore that I absolutely despise.

The last bit of good news is that I've begun writing on my Yuletide fic!! It's already getting a bit more detailed and atmospheric than I'd intended, but I figure I'll go with it and see how it progresses. The Gimli story is coming along, too; I need to do some research (maybe in The Hobbit) to see how far it is from Erebor to Hobbiton and to the Great Smials. Fun stuff! I should probably pick an actual season in which the story is set since the next part will be above ground, as opposed to in the Glittering Caves or underneath the Lonely Mountain.

Comments

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

What exactly are you doing from home at the moment?

Proving residency is a bitch anywhere, but it's cool that Oregon has that clause. It was hard for me here in New Mexico for basically the same reasons:
1) We're so rural (as is 90% of Taos, even in town) that we don't have direct mail, but PO boxes.
2) We're on a well/septic and must haul our own trash and recycling, so there's no water bill/trash bill.
3) We have solar power for the most part and don't pay our electric bill for the second.
Basically, I had to have Bob (the owner of New Buffalo) create a fake lease and then my awesome boss Jason fixed my paycheck to reflect my (mostly non-existent) street address.

Good luck at the DMV!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I'm not actually doing anything from home, except for my job search. I have had a conditional employment offer to work from home since 11/9, with the understanding that it would be a couple of weeks (now almost a month!) before I could get training and actually get on their books. That's why I've continued to look for something else. That position would be basically working as an answering service/customer service person for a whole slew of companies that this company supports. I'm a bit fuzzy on details, but it seems that there are chunks of time to do this, I think in a set of 2-6 hours spread out over mornings-nights and you bid on the time slots. If I had a good desk chair (which I would invest in if I do this) it's really not a bad thing, and quite flexible in some ways. Without the firm offer I just figured I'd keep looking and see if I could secure something definite with a noticeable difference in salary (or benefits) until it was all settled.

See my next post about the DMV. It couldn't have gone better!!