work, rose, lehrer, 145+Amsterdam

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Here is a picture of the health center at the corner of 145th and Amsterdam.
It could use some improvement...non?

Okay...so I am here in the computer lab at CCNY's North Academic Center (NAC)thinking about employment opportunities. About fifteen years ago, when I quit my job at Owen's Family Restaurant I swore off food service jobs. (Before that I had worked at Fuddruckers, Denny's, Pizza Hut, Olive Garden, and Stars Inn Cafe.)

Just now, I have made a list of all the jobs I have had since my fourth/fifth grade stint delivering the San Antonio Light (What a raw deal that was!! I think I made $35-$75 dollars a month and worked very hard for about 60 hours per month. Even worse than extra-ordinarily exhausting labor and ink stained hands was being a bill collector--stupid dead-beat neighbors...grrr.):

freelance: Architectural Researcher, Nanny, House-sitter, Photographer, lawn-mower,
car-washer, leaf-bagger, cleaner

volunteer: community organizer (UHAB, Mirabal Sisters, 545 Tenant Association), construction leader, roofer, painter, dry-wall hanger, landscaper (Habitat for Humanity), candy-stripper, maitre d'hotel (Hostelling International), layout editor, wire editor, arts and entertainment writer (Daily Texan), baby-bird feeder (B.E.A.K.S.), gardener (Serenity Gardens), advocate(MLT, Mirabal Sisters), cook prep-cook(Food-not-Bombs), correspondent (inside-books, rhizome collective)

retail: Long's, Cord Camera, Drexel Grandview Theater, Half Price Books, Strandbooks, Follette

teaching: creative play center, columbus public-schools substitute,scab-teaching in southern ohio (a lucrative if-not-especially-proud moment)
ymca after-school teacher (good-fun until a bi&*^&%^$$#@new OSU-education-grad became my boss and treated me like I had the plague.)

Places I would deign to work:
hospitals
schools
used bookstores
record stores
video stores
architecture firms
law offices (with good lighting)
design companies
government offices
abc
nbc
cbs
materials for the arts
pbs
charlie rose
wnyc
brian lehrer
wbai
universities
newspapers
hardware stores
anything related to sustainability
anything facilities maintenance
theaters
art students league


Places I would not deign to work:

food service
places with bad lighting/air quality/work environments
evil corporations
pvc manufacturing
Really sketchy small businesses

new suit, festivus, jeff koons

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So...two years after being fired from Strand I am still (kind of blissfully) unemployed. Because of the odd circumstance with the negligent LL, and the ensuing rent strike, I have survived here in NYC with very little income or savings. Going through six months of unemployment benefits and about (six thousand dollars?) in savings. I am getting a little nervous now as I am about to empty my third bank account. So Last Friday, when I met Krishna at Union Square I splurged on a basic black interview suit. (We both actually bought the same suit.)

Saturday I walked from my place on 146th through the park to 59th street. The day was pretty much perfect. I wandered into a "Festivus" celebration (Socorro informed me, this is a Sienfieldian thing.)Saw thousands of people lining up for the free Bon Jovi Concert, and caught the tail end of a softball game. Sunday, Lindon and I hung out on the roof of the MET with Jeff Koons's Giant Balloon Dog and drank $12.00 mojito's (another big splurge. It was very hot up there and the Mojitos looked so cool and wet.)

Sigh...jobs aren't jumping out at me so if you have any suggestions...

durer

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This morning as I was walking down amsterdam on my way to school a very friendly guy held out his hand as if to dance with me...I kind of wanted to take it.

Came across these funny bolgs in the texan:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

http://failblog.org/

DC, NC, HI

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ok...anger management 101 continues...I decided to spend an extra night in DC figuring I could afford the $30-$35 dollars for a bed at the youth hostel. The guy at the front desk bumped up the price an extra ten dollars, saying that when they reach 95% capacity they charge more for the last %5. (Presumably the last ten people to register have more money.) Ihave never heard of HI doing this. It kind of pissed me off after tax and tacked on fees...it was almost $50 FOR A BED in a room with eleven others. Collectively, we paid $600.00 for the room. A bit high considering they seem to clean the bathroom on our floor (shared by 800 people?) once a day. The only way I could rationalize paying so much was to think of it as a donation. I guess it is a non-for profit.

arrgh!

If someone wants to open up a youth hostel here I guess business is good.

(Or would Hostelling International send someone to break the legs if they tried?)