The need for me to find a job that is flexible has consumed my life for the past four or five months. Actually I think it has consumed my life for the past five years because I have not been able to stop thinking about it for that long. A year after I started working at Wildcat Cliffs, I knew I needed to leave that job, but I couldn't find anything that I could move into laterally. So, I got my bills as low as I could get them by refinancing my car, then traded it in for a smaller car with lower payments, eliminated some extraneous bills (what I now consider luxuries). Then I made the bold move to take any job I could get no matter how little it paid, so I could say I had a job before I left that job.

The job I left Wildcat to do, I left after two weeks because the boss misrepresented the accounts I would have. I thought I would be the only sales person and I would have the majority of th accounts, but I quickly found out after getting on the job that I would only have the accounts that on the outskirts of the town or the accounts that the publisher couldn't get to advertise. All I could see was my finances turning upside down, with little to no money coming in to pay my bills. They paid mileage, but it was a minimal amount. So, I gave notice. 

In the meantime, I got a job at Wolfgang's Restaurant and at Madison's Restaurant as a server, but only kept the Wolfgang's job because I didn't want to be a professional server and it was too hard on my body to do both jobs. I am now on unemployment because Wolfgang's closes for January and February and I'm close to getting my real estate license (they haven't sent it in the mail yet and I fear a problem). I just passed the state exam to become a real estate agent, but that profession takes money to make money. Luckily I have found a place that will support me a little bit. I'm torn between two professions...teaching and real estate. I am just two classes away from becoming a certified teacher. It has been seven days, so I fear a problem. If it doesn't come today, I am going to call the North Carolina Real Estate Commission to see why there is a delay.