Redirection: Vocation

So I quit my gig as an office manager at the end of November, and since then I've been pursuing work that I'm passionate about, mostly things with food, dance, and music. I've been writing a lot too, mostly on this blog, but a bit of a song came to me one night, and I feel like I'm moving towards poetry again.

Most of my paying gigs have had to do with food, but it's becoming clearer each day that making food my main vocation will not be helpful to me. The thing is, I need to work around people and not around food as much. For me, working directly with food is not unlike an alcoholic working as a bartender. It's funny how once I decided to pursue personal chefing, I became very focused on it, and it was really difficult for me to realize that it's not something I have to do at all. This is a recent admission, so my focus will change from working with food to working with people, and I'm happy about that. In order for me to be happy, I have to be around people.

And lately, when I'm at a restaurant, I realize more and more how much I miss waitressing. Really. I dig it. It may sound crazy, but I do enjoy waitressing. There's always variety, you're usually surrounded by people, and it's demanding. Since it seems like I'm still looking for direction, I may as well do something I enjoy and make some money in the meantime. So tonight I talked to Trace at Tomato Head about the application I already have in there, and I got an application for La Costa, so we'll see what happens. I really want to be on Market Square.

Another thought I'd like to pursue: how would I get to write for a newspaper like the Metro Pulse or Skirt? I'd have a lot of fun with that. Other than making money off this blog, which I really want to do, but Google Adsense doesn't seem to work, and I can't figure out what's wrong (help, anyone?).