I quit!

As my 3-day training session next week approaches, I get more and more anxious about my part-time Census job.  I call the Bureau and reach a supervisor, Anthony.  This is what I learn:

• The training session next week is from 8:30 to 5:30 downtown.  I will be paid $16.90/for 8 hours (we are not paid for our lunch break).  After taxes, I would net about $100 for a 10-hour day (including transportation time).

• The job would require me to carry around a computer as all surveys are done on the laptop.

• Each survey is about 45 minutes, and conducted in-home.  How many people are going to be willing to do this?  Not many I would think.

• And further, I don’t like the idea of having to go into strangers’ homes.  If I don’t, I can’t complete the survey, unless or course I want to sit on the ground with the computer on my lap, in some scary-looking  hallway somewhere.

I tell Anthony I need the weekend to think this over.  I tell him I am having doubts about the job.  

I hang up and read my emails.  One is for a Living Social coupon for The Real Estate Education Center.   For $149, I can buy a 75-hour Real Estate Licensing Course and Exam. Before I can think too much about it, I buy it.

I call Anthony back and tell him I quit.  And just like that, this big black cloud hovering above  me, lifts itself up and dissipates into the air.