nonethefewer | Office work versus handiwork. (Reply)

I'm currently unemployed, which is no rational being's idea of fun. (Relief perhaps, but not fun.) I use Mozilla Thunderbird for both my formal email address and an RSS aggregator. In the RSS section, I subscribe to various Craigslist job categories, like admin stuff, technical support stuff, and so forth.

One job posting came into the trade section, asking if I was tired of long and boring hours at the office. I hadn't thought of it before… rather, I'd thought quite a lot about how boring office work can be, but I hadn't seriously considered doing anything else with my time. I'm used to doing officework – have done so since I was 16, or thereabouts – so that's what I'm "good" at.

Now, of course, I am all kinds of curious about working with my hands. I have no strong handiwork background, though I'm willing and able to heft things about, so I figured I'd not be able to get into it. Apparently, this is not entirely true, even beyond correcting for my general pessimism. There's a local group called Oregon Tradeswomen Inc., which is apparently about assisting women in the trades, and assisting women in getting into the trades in the first place.

I am fascinated. It's one whole neighbourhood away from me, so I may go there sometime soon to check them out, see if they're who I'm looking for. I would love to get into some sort of trade, at some point.

I may have had a point, but I got hit by a terrible pun (instead of "foreman", they wrote "forema'am"), and I need to go lie down now.