Let's All Support Local Businesses

I work for a man who owns a small business.  You all know that I drive a delivery van, but I don't think I've ever talked much about what I actually do. In the mornings, I deliver mail to several local businesses.  These are small businesses, and unfortunately, a few that I used to deliver to have gone out of business over the last year.  In the afternoon, I revisit each business and pick up mail that I then drop off at the post office before going home.  In between my mail routes, I deliver between businesses.  I really do love my job, mostly because for most of the day, it is just me and my radio.  I love cranking up my favorite songs and singing along at the top of my lungs.  People I pass must think I'm insane as they see me dancing in my seat, but I don't care.  It makes the day go by faster.

I wish more people would Support Local Business owners and not shop so much in the big chain stores. I am guilty of spending most of my paycheck at Walmart every week, but when it comes to finding one of a kind gifts, or jewelry, I try and buy handmade things.  I love etsy, and try to search out artists who are from my area.  I did a lot of my Christmas shopping the past two years online, buying handmade things.  I would rather spend a little more on something that I know was made with love.  In fact, I bought my mom the cutest potholders last year, and they were about ten times more expensive than what I would have paid in a chain store, but I considered it money well spent because I was helping to support a local mom who was trying to help support her family.

I guess my point is, we all need to be more supportive of local small businesses.

Working As Copywriters?

 I've been working for a few weeks now, and my body is slowly adjusting to the lack of sleep and constant going and going and going.  The great thing is...I am enjoying every minute of it.  I have an awesome boss, and I can listen to the radio all day long as I drive.  I wish it paid more, but I am truly thankful to be working at all.  I must have filled out dozens of applications before landing this job, and not one place ever called me.  Not even McDonald's. 

That's just sad.

I was reading online about different types of jobs that I might be qualified for, and to be honest, without a degree of some sort, the pickings were slim.  I was even looking at a copywriters course, but I just don't have the time to devote to going to school right now.  I wish I did.  Maybe once the kids get a little older and I can find time to breathe.  I read that copywriters can do freelance work, which is pretty awesome.

For now, though, I am going to continue doing what I am doing, and enjoy my job.  I am also enjoying the fact that I am standing on my own two feet for the first time, and I am surviving.  Sure, I have help from family and friends, but that's what they are for.

Right?