Ep 11: “Is your day job serving you?”

We admit our privileged perspective on the wacky things we are seeing in the job market, 100%. But in a soap box moment it feels like those of us that can say NO to this kind of work all the time bullshit should do so to force employers to stop asking people to do it. (stepping off the soapbox) But in reality, we both want jobs that provide a basic income but don’t zap our creative energy for our heart projects. Yes, many of you call them passion projects, I know that, but passion feels too fleeting to me right now, a time in my life when I am not willing to pack up my creative life again for a full time paycheck.

I know that we have talked about juggling day jobs and our creative projects before but it felt like we needed a space to unpack it in all of its agonizing details. And details there are. Like the time (errr, last month) when Steph hired someone to rewrite her resume/CV. Don’t worry, this is not a bitchfest, although that might be a fun separate episode, eh Summer? Instead, we check in on my (Steph’s) current job hunt as well as spend some time in Summer’s ideal jobland as we try to etch out what is in the realm of possibility and what is purely a day dream. 

Links:  (in order)

-Fiverr, where Steph found her CV writer and many other skilled freelancers like people to work on her podcast logos and other services over the years: https://www.fiverr.com/

-Workcationing Podcast: https://workationing.com/podcast-episodes/

Quotes:

“Can you believe that in my 20’s I thought that if I didn’t have a day job, I would not know what to do with my time and I would be bored.” -Steph

“It’s like an onion and you can only peel those layers one at a time and you’re not going to know what happens until you’re sitting in the midst of that company.” -Summer

“...you have to look into the mirror and say how is my day job serving me?” -Summer 

“We’re wet wipes.” -Steph

Music: And a big thank you to Alex of Kwick Lights (https://kwick-lights.de/de) for recording our snazzy new intro/outro jingles! Thanks also to Lena of Lena On The Move (https://lenaonthemove.com/) for the sound idea and pulling this together for us! Check out Alex and Lena's Nuremberg-based band, Off The Grid, at https://www.instagram.com/offthegrid.music/ 

Contact us: 

Creatively Complicated (in Internetland):

Twitter: Creatively Complicated Podcast, @stephandsummer

Email: [email protected]

Summer (in Germany):  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/summeroutside/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/summeroutside

Blog: https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/

Stephanie: (in China): https://linktr.ee/stephfuccio

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