I'm Human, But I Was Raised By Elves...

I know, it's again been a long time since I last posted... but I do intend to try to keep up more regularly. Since my last post I have said "Yes" to a number of interesting and challenging thing. The first was a seasonal job. I had been unemployed for about a month and needed to find some sort of work that was (hopefully) fun. I was able to get a seasonal job at Kate's Paperie and have learned the art of Japanese gift wrapping. I love working with people, so working retail is ideal because I get to do a lot of that with customers. Unfortunately, not all of the customers reciprocate my feelings. I'll admit that there have been a handful of customers that just haven't been nice. The good thing is that happy customers outweigh unhappy customers.

Since seasonal work is only part-time, I have been filling in with more odd jobs. I said "Yes" to being a promotional model for a local bakery. I got to go to a few local events and hand out tokens for free cupcakes. It was so much fun! I have definitely been learning that working face-to-face with people is important to me. Whatever my passion is, it must involve working with people and doing something to enrich the lives of others (even if through a cupcake token).

I also said "Yes" to taking on a job as a face painter. Craig's List has been good to me. I have been fortunate enough to find a number of interesting and fun jobs on the site, including this face painting position. A secret confession of mine is that I have always wanted to have a job around Christmas that involves me dressing up as an elf. It's weird, I know... but imagine my excitement when the woman who hired me to do face painting asked if I would be willing to dress up as none other than an elf! I agreed immediately and tried my best to hide my elation through e-mail by using minimal exclamation points and capital letters, but I still think that she could tell how excited I was! The only draw back was that I am not a professional face painter at all, but since art has always interested me and face painting is fun, I thought I'd give it a shot. I was happy with the results and I think that my customers and the woman who hired me were too!

My dad let me practice on him. Here he is as a tiger! Grrrr...

Here I am in full elf garb. I think I might have liked dressing up a little too much because I kept the costume on for about an hour after getting home from face painting!

I loved this job and would definitely work as a face painter again. I think that the two things that I enjoyed most about the experience were being able to work with people and having the chance to be creative while doing so. Creativity is definitely a passion of mine. I am finding that if I am able to find a way to combine being creative with helping people, I am more likely to feel satisfied with whatever work I am doing.