Taking a Hobby Job

I took on a second job that I start this weekend.  I am going to work part time as an IELTS examiner on weekends and over the summer to bring in extra money for my own purposes.  This is to allow me to do those things that I find fun. This would include scuba diving or going to the movies or paying for a second masters degree... anything that I might be interested in. 

I also decided that I was getting too stressed at work.  Not because I have too much to do (who doesn't) but because I am not doing things that are interesting or challenging to me. So I took on two new activities.  The first is a third job... this is a hobby job, doing an activity that I find fun but does not interfere with anything else that I am doing.  I got a job as a video game reviewer for an online magazine.  Doesn't really sound like a job but it is.  Or rather it sounds like a kids dream job.  But I worked as a journalist in college and published numerous articles. Later I became the editor of two different major middle eastern publications.  I figure why not! It seems like a natural progression.  After all, I have two teenage boys and a teenage girl in the house, how would I avoid seeing and hearing about all the latest video game news?  And yes, I am getting paid for this one too.

So with all this extra coming in you might think I would do something smart like pay off all my loans.  But no, I am still needing a little something.  So I have done something I dreamed about back in the early 90s when I started college. I am getting another degree. This time I am getting an MFA. I have wanted one for over 20 years, and I am no longer willing to want something futile.  It is a waste of my efforts to dream about things I can't have or won't get, so I am changing my view.  It seems to be working really well.  I wanted to get this job and now I have it.

Makes Will a little cranky to see me try for a job and get it first thing, but then he is the one who always tells me I am superwoman (see previous post on that issue).  

I am really looking forward to this hobby job.