If there's one thing I will gain from this living/working abroad thing, it would have to be indifference to job instability. This week I lost two classes. The funny thing is I just started both the the past two weeks. One, I've only had class once, and the other, twice. One class is canceled because of the company is currently having financial problems. They decided to take away this benefit from their employees. The second class was taken away from me because...(whispering) I don't have a work permit. Apparently the office building is making sure that all their tenants only employ legal persons. Now, even though I'm not working for that particular company, I am still considered an employee since I conduct the classes there. Thus, I am not allowed in the building...boo!!!
Oh the life of an illegal immigrant! After all those years of mocking and joking around about me being an illegal alien in the States, now I am actually living the life of a real illegal immigrant. Granted my life here is not as difficult or complicated as many illegal immigrants in the States, I'm still getting a little taste of it - unstable work, lack of health insurance, having enough money one day and not the next, lack of a real family, etc. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how my family will be notified if something bad were to happen to me, or if I die here. Who's gonna call them? It's not like I gave someone my emergency contact info...this ain't a field trip! (Ma, please don't freak out! I'm just being crazy!)
Anyway, I think this will all just make me a better person...I hope. I'm just so used to constantly changing classes that it doesn't even matter anymore. As long as I can put a roof over my head and feed my fat ass, I don't care.
So if for some reason I ever hear the words, "You're fired!", in any of my future "real" jobs (if I ever decide to go back, that is), well, then, it will just be like losing another class.
7 comments:
oh fran...if you die there i'm sure it would be a happy death. we're all dying a slow one here in the office...although things are looking up for me! i have been meaning to talk to you about taking pay cuts. how did you cope? i might be faced with cutting my current income in half and that will be huge. i wish you were across the aisle from me so i could chat with you about my life problems. i know my mom judges and takes on a mom tone when i tell her i'm thinking of leaving my job...but i've told her i want to do this and it will be super scary to leave the security. how did you do it?!! help!!! natania is lost!!
fran i passed my your highschool today.
fran i passed my your highschool today.
i passed by* sorry jetlagg
*Disclaimer: this comment has nothing to do with your post.
1. Where's the blog Narf? Blogs must blog to be blogging. Write something already.
2. You know that by clicking on the link going to your "complete profile" anyone can see your other blog. FYI...
3. I hope this absence from your blog does not mean you're dead, because that would be terrible. Even a quickie explaining your negligence would be acceptable.
Ready, set, BLOG!!!!
this is a long delayed comment b/c u know how current i keep on the blog. in case of an emergency just get my digits tattooed somewhere on your body. EBS 773....
they will either think it is a bar code or get the drift and ring me.
and...based on the time that my comment was just posted (I assume that is Spain time b/c it is not CST) It is your BDAY!!!!!!! Happy 27!
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