I got a job.

This is monumental for a few reasons.

1: It took so long. I broke records for myself this year in category "amount of time unemployed." After a month and a half of panic and depression, I decided to go with the flow and found creative ways to entertain myself for free, including but not limited to: focused guitar and voice practice, cooking and cleaning, hikes, thrift shopping for items 1$ and less, art projects, and regular yoga at home. Just when these things were beginning to become pleasantly habitual, I became employed.

2: The irony of who has deemed me worthy of employment. A computer store. Anyone who knows me at all will remember that I only recently got email and a cell phone. I've never bought a computer in my life, I've been lucky enough to inherit hand-me-downs from the people who love me and never needed anything more than that. In fact, I've quite often shunned the computal elements. Needless to say, I'm not exactly qualified.

BUT, I do believe that life puts us into places and situations for reasons that are unknown to us.

I can see the value of the time that I've had to myself, to rediscover the things that make me happy, the things that I need to incorporate into my daily, or weekly life. And for the most part, these things have nothing to do with work, they rarely have for me.

But the value of knowing a lot about apple computers? I do know that this information is valuable in general, but I don't know how it is valuable to me. Of course, the relationships formed are always worthwhile... and
the pleasure of knowing the answer to a geeky question that my "mr. apple" boyfriend didn't know. Now that is satisfaction.