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I started my new job on Tuesday.

there, that sounds better than anything I might have written about my life in the past two weeks. I lost my job mid-august, hence the recent drought of posts. I certainly wasn't planning on staying at the job for much longer, I just wish it could have ended differently. For the first two days I was actually happy, since I'd been planning to leave once I finished my IDP hours. Job hunting isn't happy work though, and the anxiousness set in. I managed to loose a good 10 pounds, on nerves alone.
For the past couple weeks I've been pimping my resume and renderings all around town. I managed to land two job offers in the space of a couple days. The first one was with the first promising firm I'd seen post on craigslist since I started looking. Unfortunately, when the principal called to ask me to come in and start work, he asked me to come in on a contract basis. You know, give him a fixed price for a set of permit drawings. If things worked out, then he'd hire me on full time.

That freaked me out a bit, since up until now, I've never done any freelance work. It's not that I couldn't make a reasonable estimate of how long it would take, and how much my time is worth. It's that I don't really know how to keep myself from getting screwed over.

But the job sounded like exactly what I wanted, so I showed up at 8:30 ready to negotiate, and get to work. Except he had plans for things to happen in the opposite order. I set off drawing, but while he ran off to meetings, I got a call from the other place I'd interviewed the day before. It's a temp job as well, but this one is through an agency, so I get a regular hourly paycheck. A little less risk is ok, I think, and the firm is definately comparable. 2 days down, so far so good.