Even though I have been working the same 3 jobs pretty steadily for a while now, I’m always aware that things can change. Most of the time, the change is a good thing like getting more hours or a better contract with a job. But sometimes it’s not good news, like when my box office job shut down at the start of the pandemic. But with the exception of the pandemic when I was really working less than I could survive on, I’ve been very lucky that for quite a while I’ve been ok with my job situation between the different jobs I work. And for the beginning of this year, I had changes for 2 of my jobs.
My box office job is the one that had no changes. I’m still only working a few hours each day, and maybe that will change in the future but for now I’m ok with that. I have to work those hours around other job stuff, so I don’t know when that might change. And they have hired new people so it’s not as bad for my co-workers as it was before, so they aren’t as in need of me working more. So that job is only a portion of the hours and pay that I was getting before the pandemic, but that’s ok.
I did get some good news with my other customer service job. I recently submitted a job proposal to change my position a bit. This would move me away from customer service and more into administrative and systems work, although I would still do some customer service work. Because of the workflow we have at that job, someone to do this type of work is needed. My job proposal was considered and I will be transitioning into that new position over time. There isn’t an exact date that I will be fully splitting my time, but it will be a process. And I expected that because they will likely need to hire someone else to help out when I’m not doing the same things I have been doing.
But, with this new position I’m getting a raise. And because this will be a transition over time and not an exact start date, my boss decided that I would start at my new pay rate during this pay period! And I am going to be transitioning from hourly to salaried, which is also a change I wanted to see happen for a few different reasons. I wasn’t expecting the raise, but of course I am so grateful for it and making more money is always a good thing when you want to try to be able to save more.
And it turned out I might need that extra money more than I thought. My data entry job is a contract position and normally my contracts go from July until June. But for my most recent contract, it was only for July until the end of 2021. I’ve had this happen before and I just got a contract extension. So I wasn’t too worried about this when I signed my last contract. But as the year came to an end, I realized that I didn’t have a new contract yet and reached out to my boss to check in.
I had a meeting with my boss right after the start of the new year and got some not great news about my job. The job has been paid through grants with the state and county, and they have decided to outsource the job elsewhere. So essentially where I have been working was no longer the contractor for the job. I have a lot of thoughts about this and why I’m not happy about it, and it’s not just about my job. I’m not sure what I’m allowed to share and what is still not public, but the main point is that job is no longer one of my jobs and I don’t have another contract.
I am luckier than many of my co-workers at that job because I was part-time and many of them were full-time there. And maybe things will change and new contracts will be offered. But as far as things look now, I won’t be returning to that job since it’s being outsourced.
I’m glad that I had some good job news at the same time as some bad job news so it wasn’t as bad. And I do wish that I only had good news about my day jobs. But as I have learned over and over again, my job situation can always be changing and I just have to adjust with it.
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