The Sewing Mom

I apologize for my absence this week, I’ve been busy on the homefront. My daughter was out on Spring Break all week and I also was working extra hours to pick up some of the financial slack we’ve been feeling around here. My husband is still working, but sometimes it feels like it’s a day to day thing. I don’t want to be caught off guard if something should happen to his job (which I’m praying nothing will).

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As you all know, I recently began a 7 week employee training course that would lead to a great work at home position as a reservation specialist for a major international hotel chain.  Today was the beginning of my fourth week, half way through, and I was both excited and nervous.  Then, the other shoe dropped.

At 1:00 today, the call center director came into our training classroom and informed us that, due to the current U.S. economy which is resulting in people not traveling, all training classes were being cancelled and as of today, we were no longer employed.  Yep, it sucks.

I’d write more, but that pretty much reflects how I’m feeling right now.  I guess it really was too good to be true.

It is official. I attended my job orientation yesterday and I will begin a 7 week training program on Monday. Before I do though, I want to send out a big THANK YOU to the blogger who helped me find this job.

I was dropping Entrecards and, as I do everyday, I visited a particular blog that is, according to her tagline, “A blog for moms who want to work from home”. I visit this particular blog almost every day and have always read her posts with great interest. A week and a half ago, as I was visiting this blog, I read a post that felt as if it were aimed directly at me. The job opportunity was a part time position with a major corporation, know world wide, that would allow me to work day time hours from home and the company would provide all the training, paid. The job also happened to be located right here in the Dallas area.

After thinking it over for a couple of days, I submitted my application online and received an email the very next day asking me to come in for testing and an interview. On Monday of this week, exactly one week after first reading about the position, I was hired.

I am spending today and tomorrow getting my home office set up to meet the job requirements, but I wanted to make sure to take the time to send a big thank you to Lisa at Work at Home Mom Revolution for the wonderful job she does with her blog. Without realizing it, she is touching lives and helping people find ways to do what they enjoy and do it at home. So, Lisa, I thank you!

My daughter takes guitar lessons from a gentleman who owns his own studio.  She been taking lessons from him since last July and is progressing very nicely.  Last week, when we went in for her lesson, he informed me that the young kid who had been working for him quit.  He was in a quandry about what he was going to do.   He even went so far as to ask me if I wanted the job!  I told him that I didn’t read music, so it really depended on what the work entailed and we sort of left it at that.

Today we were back for this week’s lesson and he brought up the job again, this time though, he had made a list of job duties.  It’s basically filing, printing documents and music from his computer, answering the phone, ordering supplies, etc.  This, for the most part, I can do.  The only thing that is questionable are the hours.  This is not an 8-5 kind of job.  It would mostly be working a few hours a day, a few days a week, but in the afternoons.  This could create a scheduling problem for me because it would mean my daughter would either have to come with me or she’d stay at home by herself.

Basically, today I told him that I’d like to meet with him when he doesn’t have a lesson going on so he could show me in more detail what he wants, the programs on his computer, etc., and we could come up with a schedule that would work for both of us.  We haven’t talked money yet either, so I’m interested to see what he thinks this job is worth.

Right now I’m still mulling this over.  The extra money would sure come in handy.  I’ll keep you posted.