My boyfriend and I are both trying to learn how to get book published. He is working on a novel and I am compiling my poetry and what I used to think of as lyrics into a manageable form on my free online blog. In a way I judge myself and think I should already know how to get book published by now. Life is strange though, it throws all kinds of curve balls your way and you never know what you might be doing any given year. I have worked as a temporary tons of times and it still makes me laugh when I think of some of the jobs I was given.
One job entailed working in a cold warehouse for a week with one other person. We had to drive little carts around because it was so big in that place, but what we were mostly being paid to do was repack apples. We were removing the sticker from one company from the apples, and replacing it with the sticker from a differently named company. Luckily they let us amuse ourselves by talking while we did this tedious task. We were freezing and there were thousands of apples. They did let us eat as much fruit as we wanted while we packed and that was good because they were storing many kinds of fruit besides apples in there. Most of these strange jobs had some sort of perk like that.
I mostly did jobs like that when I was on Spring or Winter break from college to make some extra cash. Thank goodness I didn’t have to do stuff like that all the time. Another weird job I got like that was inspecting baby goggles for premature infants for a forty hour work week. Since I wasn’t stuck doing these things all the time I definitely saw them with a sense of humor. I even realized that someday when I was able to try to learn how to get book published again, I would have some funny memories to use if I wanted.
It is a really weird world we live in I think, and sometimes I am flabbergasted by the money system and what you can get paid to do. These days it’s less like that because of the economy but if I am ever feeling dejected and I remind myself of some of the weird work worlds I’ve been in, it helps me keep perspective.
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