Trying to Keep the Faith
Steve and I have been living in Austin for about 2 months now and I have been blessed to have some contract work with my old event planning company that I worked for during college. It has given us enough extra income to keep us sustained up until now. Unfortunately, it's not steady enough o have that be all I'm doing. The job market is still really rough and even though Texas is much better off than most states, it's not a good time to need a job. I have been searching high and low, emailing just about every event venue in town and applying to catering, wedding and event companies but no one is hiring. I've had a couple interviews but they've all been for sales jobs and most either don't pay enough to live on or are purely commission based which makes me very uneasy. As I was leaving The Westin's lobby from an interview, a man ran after me to see what I was interviewing for and to offer me an interview as well. So I called him the next day and...