Three people who have thought of me with jobs...

...over the past 1-2 years:

1) My one (Romanian) colleague says I should go teach writing at the local community college, and when I say in so many words that it's not worth the precarity, he says that technically it's precarious, but in reality they always rehire the same people, and so I should try it.

(I tell him in so many words that promises mean nothing and that one enrollment cut or one person who doesn't like you, and you have a huge chunk of your income cut off suddenly, and that's no way to live, to which he says that it's a shame my expertise is being wasted, and I bite my tongue and choose to be silent rather than tell him that that's a problem for the employer and with the terms of their jobs, not with anything with me.)

2) After a phone conference with a(n activist) (lawyer) who I know through a civic group in the city that I used to live in, he asks me what I'm doing nowadays for work, anyways, and I tell him, and in the next month he sends me a post for a "boom or bust" organizer job where you need your own car and work like a dog for something that rapidly disappears, and that overall doesn't pay that much better than a restaurant job.

(I thank him for thinking of me, and tell him to definitely send me anything that he comes across, that seems like it would be a match for me.)

3) Out of nowhere, my one (lawyer) friend from Missouri texts me a pic of a job posting for a contract linguist.

((I thank her for thinking of me, and tell her to definitely send me anything that she comes across, that seems like it would be a match for me, and add that I've seen stuff like that and looked into it, but they work you to death at a deskjob for fifty hours a week and I'm kind of not into too many hours or that much deskwork.)

. . .

(I feel like I'm done working myself to death at shitty "jobs" where the status quo is them using you and feeding you promises. Yeah, of course I'd like something better and something with a higher income grade or where I could work into a higher income grade, but I'm not going to tolerate an intolerable status quo for promises. Too many years of my life were spent doing that.)