side_hustle past i was prompted by a friend to submit an application to adjunct a course at a local university this summer, on that particularly intense 6 hours a week schedule that universities in the summer love. bullied, a little, into actually updating my cv and throwing my name into the ring. don't get me wrong, i enjoy teaching, miss it even having not done so since before the pandemic. but once a week is different than twice. there's more littles around, and i can't walk (and might not be able to again before this course starts on scant few weeks). my day job is confined to it's hours, but full of responsibilities that eat away my daily allotment of mental capacity. the hustle is exhausting, with it's rewards yes, but i don't know. i sort of hope someone else gets it. 230416 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I can't say it's exactly the same, but I know the feeling of both wanting and not wanting a job. The admin work at the tutoring centre exhausts me, but it helps me afford my somewhat reckless summer plans - if you can call things that were planned months in advance "reckless." Maybe? Anyway, I hope things work out for you in a way you can balance individual time, family time, and work...to whatever extent life allows! And I hope your leg heals as quickly as possible. 230416 ... past yeah it's weird. people are ambitious on my behalf, where i apparently have a well developed sense of "enough" and am lucky enough to found a job i enjoy that is challenging yet sort of easy at the same time and is fairly compensated. a unicorn labour situation really. i think i won't end up teaching after all: i checked the university website and while no one is listed in the course slot yet, they changed the times from evenings to afternoons. 230419 ... e_o_i On finding an interesting and not-too-taxing job - I don't know how rare that is, but yes, it seems like a good spot to be in! Happy mediums over stressful scrambles...reminds me when my friend J. was making fairly big money as a programmer at her last job. The thing is, she was on call so often fix security breaches. One afternoon we were at Concordia's Hall Building theatre for the Fantasia film festival - pre-pandemic, probably 2018 - and she got some notification. So she had to crouch down in her seat and work on her laptop for more than half the movie. I was curious, but then I got absorbed in the movie and forgot about it. But after, when I started talking about the funny chase scene, she hadn't seen any of that part, only poking her head up at the very end. At other points, she'd also had to fix bugs in the middle of the night. Long story short, she stopped working there and turned her former "side hustle" into a job - making zines about programming. And it works, even thought it's not as much money, probably. I guess I'm lucky with my stuff too, even at the tutoring centre! The English test for teachers is a niche that I can fill, since the big tutoring centres like Princeton Review and Kaplan don't bother with local provincial (literally provincial) tests. But then I haven't had much time for writing yet this year, and isn't that the main thing I want to do? (As if that's a question.) Everything else is kind of a side hustle to me. 230423 ... past ghosted by the department to find out on the public website that some guy with a million seniority credits got it. fair enough and no issue. but maybe tell me, the guy you asked to apply, that i didn't get it? 230501 what's it to you? who go blather from