Employment beckons coyly, from the distant future of next week, making half-promises it actually seems inclined to fulfill.

Yes, it's a JOB!!!

And, no, not the firm I've been interviewing at. I didn't like to say much, but after lunching with Opiette last week, I was much less excited about that company. Granted that "Dysfunctional Employers Welcome" has been my business mantra for the last twenty years but it's been feeling like time for a new philosophy. Working for crazymen gets old. Especially as I get older.

In this new (still potential) job, I'd be working for Gidget. We've worked together three times before, thanks in no small part to her habit of bringing me on board wherever she's working. As she so kindly said today, "I've stolen you away from other jobs to work for me and I'd have done it again this time." Poaching will not be required this time--I'm footloose, fancy-free, and ready for a paycheck new challenge.

It will be a new challenge, too. I'm to be initiated into the mysteries of G**gl* marketing on the tracking and managing side of things. Spreadsheets, you know. Looking up data in one place and plugging it into another place. Interrupted every so often by calls to/from franchisees using the company's product. Customers, in fact, to service. Right up my alley!

Internet marketing, too, making this a position with a skill that will actually be useful on my resume. This business, whose name I still do not know (Gidget calls, I answer without asking questions) is a huge internet marketer, so not only experience, but significant experience.

Coming, as we switch to the more selfish side of things, with a significant salary, significant benefits, and pre-approval for my annual California Trek early in March!

dances in mad little circles

The R.C. got a full-time job last week.

Meghan got the job she badly wanted just a day or so ago.

I might get a job next week.

Go, Jonathan! The planets are aligned for employment!

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* In this production, the role of The Universe is played by Ms. (Hire My Friend!) Gidget.