Every Direction is ^
The last year of my life has been a wacky one in terms of employment.
During the fall of last year, I declined an AmeriCorps position that would have relocated me to Urbana, IL to run a bicycle co-op.
I continued working at my internship at a public transportation company, applying to everything within a 50 mile radius and hoping for the best.
As the months dragged on and the rejections piled up, I began to feel regretful of turning down that AmeriCorps position.
I began to become complacent with my lifestyle in Los Angeles and even my intense feelings of wanting to leave my home city began to dull and fade.
Then a few months ago, I left my internship for a full time position with my alma mater, creating maps and doing research. It was an interesting job and the pay and benefits were great.
They laid me off after 13 days due to budget cuts (or perhaps because I thought the “blue stuff was land”).
What followed was a 2 month spiral of “funemployment” (a former co-worker coined that one), that had me alternating between self pity and furious job searching.
And finally, “In this summer, this is very tough, in this summer I’m going to take my talents to the East Bay and join SAIC.”
So hopefully I will not fail as hard as the individual pictured above, but I am excited (and also worried?) about leaving home and moving up to the Bay Area. The atmosphere, the environment, the bikeability, these are all things I look forward to. I can’t even begin to list the things that I will miss about Los Angeles, but I feel that it is about time for a change in scenery.
Okay so it may seem like I’m relocating just for a job, but the truth is, I just really want the opportunity to meet my role model, the Bay Area legend known as Bubb Rubb.
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