{"id":5097,"date":"2016-01-13T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2016-01-13T06:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:37:31","slug":"find-joy-in-a-quilt-shop-new-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"Find Joy in a Quilt Shop – New Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six months ago I was laid off from my full time day job as a technical writer – telecommuting (working from home). The lay off wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a total surprise, but it still was a bit of a shock to not wake up at 5:30 am each day and put in 8 hours on a computer. <\/p>\n

Since then, I have applied for jobs – telecommuting jobs and local jobs – technical writing, medical writing, business analyst, project management and administrative jobs. I have had a few interviews, but mostly I have received rejection notices. I used the down time to create art as much as possible. I created a ton of new art quilts, journals and other stitched fun which allowed me to have ample inventory to participate in holiday bazaars for the first time. <\/p>\n

As the new year began, we reviewed our budget. We have burned through the severance I received and unemployment insurance was ending. We would need to dip into savings unless I got a job – any job. So I applied for part-time jobs with craft and quilt stores. <\/p>\n

I am nervous and thrilled to begin working for a local quilt shop today! As a member of the co-op gallery, I go there and run the shop about once a month. I enjoy it a lot and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always surprised how fast the day goes by. I think I will have the same experience at the quilt shop – surrounded by beautiful quilts, fabric and supplies. <\/p>\n

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Six months ago I was laid off from my full time day job as a technical writer – telecommuting (working from home). The lay off wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a total surprise, but it still was a bit of a shock to not wake up at 5:30 am each day and put in 8 hours on a computer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}