Craigslist to the Rescue
The recession is hitting home. The freelance world has been brutal on PilotGirl so I posted an ad in Craigslist the other month looking for housemate #2. Fortunately, I have the luxury of filling several bedrooms rather than selling my house or my business.
My new housemate is wonderful, just like the first! She bailed on the financial world 3 years ago and became a nurse. Albany Med was the only hospital hiring so she packed up her belongings and moved north. P.S. Albany beware, she bought a car and drove for the first time in 16 years!
The driveway is full of cars and the house is packed with professional women struggling to stay afloat. Make that 3 career-oriented gals, 1 occasional Mutti and 1 occasional sister. I laugh that I might need to learn how to flip pancakes because it's feeling more and more like I run a B&B.
Come Friday, Dad and Stepmom will be bunking on the pullout for 3 days. Hey, I say the more the merrier as long as the dog approves.
Taking in strangers is a far cry from what I envisioned life would be like when I was a love-sick girl at 15, 25, even 35yrs but isn't that what makes life so irresistible? We all start off wanting to play by the rules and conforming to expectations but when that fails we tip-toe out of our comfort zone and rewrite the blueprints.
Recession? Bring it on Baby!
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 7:33 AM
2 Comments:
what's that you're holding in the picture?
I guess it's counterintuitive for those with financial problems (just about everyone in the world these days) to see this current recession as perhaps not as bad a situation as it might seem at first. Nevertheless, that's my take on it, so far at least.
Why?
It's making everyone in the world think about basics again, and millions of people have tried to ignore basic economic and life facts for years.
Now with this worldwide crisis, that's no longer possible.
The recession also forces us as US citizens to take a long, hard look at our elected officials. Many Americans have blindly trusted them for years without considering whether they've earned that trust or not.
Now we can clearly see that they have abused that trust. I feel there's now far more reality-based political awareness in the US than there has been since GWB's election or earlier.
Obama's election was a clear signal to our politicians to return to the work they were elected to do: govern this country intelligently.
I congratulate your new roommate on bailing from the financial world where the main preoccupation is making money for yourself through the manipulation of the money of others and switching to an occupation which truly helps others instead of trying to grab your money and cash out before anyone catches you.
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