Well, my ankle is doing better, I'm getting around with the help of a cane, but the back and hip pain on my right side is pretty bad if I go too far. Ugh. If I overdo it, then my ankle swells up and throbs. Like I did today.
But the shit just keeps on coming. I have a new health crisis that requires me to go out of state next week to meet with a cancer specialist. Yeah, possible cancer. *sigh* I really didn't see that coming. I'll post about it more when I have a better idea of what the diagnosis is.
But, work. I emailed my two bosses to let them know that I needed work. 1. to keep busy; 2. to make income because my husband gets laid off in June, and starting in July we'll need to be on COBRA for our health insurance and it won't be cheap.
And, with my disappointment in the slow way they pay their sub-contractor's, I'm equally disappointed in their response.
I asked for either short projects, or an author who would be understanding if I needed to pass their project to another member of the team, or wait for me to feel better if I have radiation therapy with a malignant diagnosis.
I was told that there are "no short projects"; and that it wouldn't be fair to ask a client to wait until I felt better to finish their project.
Frankly? I call bullshit on both. I realize it's not personal, it's business, but I've done plenty of short projects, and I can edit very quickly now. So they're waiting to find out what my diagnosis will be. I think that's kind of shitty that they just didn't come right out and say it instead of some bs about there being "no short work." And I may not even be ill! This is all conjecture at this point.
There is no disability insurance in the state I live in like they have in California--it comes right out of your paycheck--but I would have had to purchase a policy on my own to receive benefits. So essentially, I have no income and no money in the pipeline. That really sucks.
I have registered with e-Lance again; they no longer charge a monthly fee to join and why I left the first time I belonged; an author friend has promised to recommend me to any of her writer friends who need a book e-formatted AND she pointed me to some websites where I can post for gigs. Cool; and a good friend from college called me last week to let me know she's moving back to California, and I got the impression that she was feeling me out for a job--she needs to hire someone when she gets to California. I would move back to California, an area that I don't even like, for this job. So it's not for sure, but it would be awesome if it were. *fingerscrossed* I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not.
So I'm looking around to see what's out there. Evidently the job I love just isn't really going to be able to provide me with enough money to really make it worth the while. That's disappointing. I just can't make it on $8,000 a year. Not in the United States.
Moving on.
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