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Floral dreams
2006-09-16, 11:10 p.m.

I was talking to my mom a little bit last night about whether or not she's ever thought of selling Avon as a side job. I hear it can be fairly profitable as a work-from-home occupation and she's tried other second jobs that just weren't a good fit for her. I figured, if she's willing to deliver pizzas in a Great Lakes region winter, then would it really be so bad to sell some make-up to her co-workers and take some online orders once in a while?

Well, she didn't go for it. She asked me, why don't I do it if it's so great? I told her that I'm considering it on my list of "throw away jobs" if and when the day comes that Jeff's new/future degree pays off so that I don't need to keep a real job with real benefits anymore. A list of work-at-home and/or part time jobs of the bored-homemaker sort for extra cash. There are the standard ones like go work in a coffee shop or at a scrapbook store; I'd even consider going back to work in a pharmacy if it weren't for having all those sick people cough across the counter at you when you're innocently trying to give them their antibiotics. I got sick more times in those 10 months as a pharmacy tech than I did in the whole rest of college.

Then I have some more off-the-wall ideas that include Avon and things like it, but I had one really marvelous idea a while back. What if I could apprentice in a floral shop and learn how to arrange flowers? Assuming Jeff is some big General Manager type of a restaraunt/hotel/banquet center at the time when I'm able to do this, I could guarantee to this florist that all future floral orders for his events go to them. I'd think that would make me a pretty attractive applicant... So then, after going on like that for several years, perhaps I'll have teen-aged children by then and I'll have learned the trade... Suppose then whe open our own florist shop where we handle all of his organization's catered events. It sounds like a really good deal. I don't know how realistic it is, but it sounds nice.

So anyway, my mom says something to the effect of, "How is THAT using your science degree?" **Sigh** In following the tone of the aforementioned musings, it it even necessary to make the statement, "Who really cares??" I'll have done plenty with my degree by then. The contents of my brain should be officially paid off by then. To hell with it. I chose the wrong major anyway, if I wanted any kind of real career. By the time any of this is possible I'm going to be so ready to get the hell out (this job, the next job, whatever...). I guess our priorities are just different. She wishes she would've done something else with her life, and kind of has always seen being a wife and mother as a waste of her life. I think I might like it, to an extent, as long as it wasn't the only thing in my life.

I don't regret going to college, not for a tiny fraction of one second. I do sort of wish I knew what I know now when I started so that I could've made better use of my time there. Anyone who knows me ought to know how passionate I am about higher education, especially in today's world and the state of things. I am absolutely in love with the fact that I not only went to college but also graduated (though I have no ambitions to go any further with it). I do miss it sometimes, but that time is over for me.

I have more to say, but I have to get up for work in 6 hours, so I should end here.

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