It's not been an overly great day - but no surprises I'm still happy as ever!
Having securing a part time job almost straight away after leaving my last job I'm still finding other ways to grab small amounts of cash doing this and that.
Market research and paid school runs are saving the day! Today I was assigned to assist a driver on a County school run.
They say never work with children - and today I almost found out why:
"Why did you leave your job with nowhere else to go?!"
How can an eleven-year-old throw me off like this? Shake my confidence just like that?! The innocence to his question rocked me - Why on Earth did I do that?? Quick, think fast...
"Because I'm on a treasure hunt to find a much better job - one that makes me really happy!" My replied sucked and I knew it.
"But what do you do now?"
"I work at Starbucks."
"Do you earn enough?"
How does this child know? Glaring at his regular driver - who I also know from my previous job - I replied, "Yes actually, just enough."
How very awkward. This eleven-year-old child knows damn straight that I don't earn enough and continued to interrogate me until he got down to the truth.
Turning to face this charming, inquisitive little boy I looked him in the eye and said, "When you grow up make sure you chose a job or a career that makes you very happy and one that makes you excited when you get up in the morning because otherwise you won't do it properly. If you don't end up doing it properly you end up sad and letting people down and no-one wants to feel like that do they? Make sure you grow up to be exactly what you want to be."
Suddenly satisfied, the nine-year-old boy smiled and promised, "I will remember."
And just like that the subject was changed and we all went about our business. Not only did I give some worldly advice to a child (which I'm sure I've never done before) I also re-convinced myself that I did the right thing and to give up now would be criminal.
Moral of the story:
Do it for the people who want to see you fail
