odd job #4

This may have been the best job i've worked yet.  I worked at a wine festival and my job was to pour wine for the tastings.  What it really mostly involved was drinking wine while getting to know the two amazing people I worked with. thanks again craigslist!

not the greatest photos, but you get the idea.

odd job #3

 for a few hours a week I stop by my grandparents house and make sure things are tidied up and that their food is sorted out for the day.  They have 7 children, so I do a little bit and the rest of them do a lot. While this job is going to be short lived (i started this month and will only do it till I go back to australia, which will be soon), it's been good for me to have this extra time with them as I don't get to see them much.  My grandma is pretty forgetful now and so she asks me the same questions over and over ('when do you go back to school?   Where is it at?  Australia?  Oh!  that is so far! Do they pay you?') and Ernesto encourages me by saying 'you are doing the Lords work'.  Then they watch their Spanish soap operas.  It's been good.

eating lunch

she would be HORRIFIED to know there is a picture of her anywhere without makeup.  this lady always looks so nice when she leaves the house.

odd job #2

I get the weirdest jobs.  When I get home, I get really scrappy getting odd jobs to cover my expenses and to save for upcoming things in Australia.   Thankfully, Craigslist was created. If you don't know what that is, it's an online classified ad where you can browse ads for houses, jobs, items people are selling, etc. from your area.  You may also know it from newspaper headlines like 'Craigslist Killer Found!' and other creepy things like that.  Don't worry!  I stay away from anything where people express a need for 'massages' or 'adult services' and everything has turned out safe and family friendly. 

If you are a faithful reader, you would have read that one odd job I've had recently was assisting at a team building bike charity event.  My main role for that 7 hour job was to time adults riding children's bikes through an obstacle course to see which team was the fastest. Good times. 

I currently browse the Cleveland Craigslist for these things:  1. free things 2. typewriters 3. people giving away air miles or a ticket to Australia (haven't found that yet) 4. odd jobs  5. an iphone that costs $20 (haven't found that either).

 

My current odd job is working at the Cleveland Airshow for the next three days.  It requires very little skill except being able to speak English and explain things to people.  I stand in trailer that's set up to as an interactive experience complete with ipad like computer things, and I tell people how to watch 3-D film clips on them.  I also tremble in terror all day as the planes do tricks just feet away from me while envisioning one of them losing control and crashing into the United States Air Force promo booth. 

Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of me doing this promotion, though now that I've written this post, I may take some tomorrow.  If you are a Clevelander, you should definitely stop by and see me.  Here is a photo of the display in general. 

Look out for 2 more coming:  Me and Alisha possibly working 'Fashions Night Out!' at Saks Fifth Avenue, and me care taking for my grandparents, who predominantly speak Spanish, until I go back to Australia.

odd job #1

on wednesday, i'm working with a non-profit event that builds bikes for little kids.  The way it works is the non-profit goes to a company for a day and the employees are divided into teams.  The teams compete to get the parts they need, build two bikes per team, and then race them around to make sure they were put together correctly (plus a technician checks them out).  The bikes are then donated to a children's charity. I am not at all the do-gooder in this scenario---just the person who responded to a Craigslist ad to fill the need for some workers for the day, but I'm pretty excited to get paid to be a part of something as fun as that!  Plus the money is going towards my ticket back to australia, so it's all going to good things.   To go with this posting, here are some cute drawings of bikes which google images has a ton of.

though lets be honest, the bikes they make are not going to be this cute.