So today I was plugging away at my day job, wistfully wishing I were home writing and I had a profound thought. Day jobs suck. Yes, profound I said.
The best movie about office work EVA
Don’t get me wrong, mine is actually pretty good, as far as jobs go. By that I mean I’ve had way, WAY suckier modes of employ in the past. Oh, God, so many terrible bosses out there. So, so many crummy menial tasks that some poor sucker has to perform. I’ve been there, I’ve done menial and the job I have now is a big improvement. My current boss is reasonable, the hours suit me, the atmosphere is usually cheerful and I get paid a lot better than I used to for tending bar all those years ago, which was much harder on my feet. All in all, I have it pretty decent.
Still, there are days like today when I just don’t want to be there. Not the greatest thing to say in the current climate where so many people would love a job like mine, so guilt does abound. But that didn’t stop me spending the majority of my day checking twitter and yahoo on my phone, which was surreptitiously concealed beneath my desk.
And I got to thinking: I don’t know what anyone else’s day job is. When we’re in Romance Land, we just want to be in Romance Land, so rarely do authors or reviewers or readers discuss that other place that takes us away from where we’d, in a perfect world, be spending every single minute of our time. Right? So tell me everyone… What do you do for a crust? (Oz-ism lesson number 43. Translation: How do you earn your living?).
Do we have any lawyers, doctors, police officers, sanitation experts or tap dance teachers among our readership? Stay at home mothers (the hardest working women in the world), stay at home dads (rarest gems in the human kingdom), or budding authors?
Please tell me how you spend your time away from Romance Land!
Cheers,
Sami
Down Under Divas 
May 15, 2012 @ 22:22:39
Hi, im a stay at home mom,my husband works and we have 4-daughters 🙂
May 16, 2012 @ 00:26:11
Me too, I am a stay at home mama of 9 with the oldest three being adults but they have been replaced by the 3 grandkids I’m raising so I still have nine. I also have a blog where I post reviews of books I read and recipes and stuff. Before I had kids I worked at Subway though.
Z
May 16, 2012 @ 04:38:17
I’m a SAHM, too–I work a hour or so a day at the kids’ school (after endless hours of volunteering, I’m being paid for my hour or so a day now ;)), and do freelance editing as time allows. I worked full time as an editor until we had our first, and don’t regret taking this time to focus on our family 🙂
May 16, 2012 @ 07:28:08
I’m a SAHM of a preschooler and a toddler and I am hoping to start helping with the bookkeeping for the air ambulance company my husband works with (he’s a pilot). Plus my husband is away fo his annual simulator training week so this week I’m a stay at home single mom and I’m hoping to not loose my mind before he comes back Friday night…..
May 16, 2012 @ 11:21:50
Love Office Space. It is the ultimate corporate movie. I’m a mother of 2 and wife all day every day. By day and some nights I’m an IT enterprise architect. When time permits I’m a closet gamer…Diablo III anyone? 🙂
May 17, 2012 @ 09:17:10
Me? I’m a slave to my kids. That is my full time job. Unless they’re at school. Then I get to do what I wanna do. Write. (Or trawl the net while pretending to write at any rate.)