{"id":13877,"date":"2024-10-14T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:02:57","slug":"new-development-in-trout-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13877","title":{"rendered":"New Development In Trout Nation!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This is cross-posted to Patreon, so if you&#8217;ve read it there, you&#8217;re up to date.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, everyone! A couple of months ago, I posted about the abysmal state of the self-publishing market and my desperate search to get a job so that I can continue to pay for stuff like rent, food, electricity, and my husband&#8217;s sudden need for numerous medical tests. After months of apply for any job that I&#8217;m qualified for, I finally got an interview. It was at the grocery store up the street from my house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was heartbroken and feeling beyond worthless. If it took half a year to get a single interview, when would the next one come? And when it did, would I fail again? Our savings are gone, Mr. Jen is still going in for a bunch of invasive and expensive medical tests, and out of the countless applications I&#8217;ve submitted, only one of them was impressed enough with my resume to interview me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then yesterday, out of the blue, a place I applied to got back to me. I got the job, no interview required. It&#8217;s a high-end chocolatier&#8217;s shop in the city, so there&#8217;s a commute, but that&#8217;s better than no job at all. And I don&#8217;t have to work with customers. I work in the back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yesterday, I got a job. No! TWO jobs! Because right before I found out I got the <em>I Love Lucy<\/em>-esque job, I found out that I got a temporary job: directing a production of <em>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels<\/em>! It&#8217;s been one of my bucket list musicals for a long time, so getting the chance to be involved is a dream come true, and having that involvement come with a paycheck is an awesome bonus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This autumn and winter is going to be hectic. I&#8217;ll be working three jobs, but obviously this one will always be my main focus. I just ask for some patience as I try to juggle the new jobs with the old job. I may need to find a new schedule or adapt things, but we&#8217;re gonna take it all as it comes. It might mean regular Patreon posts come on different days than usual, or later in the day than usual, but I&#8217;m aiming for as few changes as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, to rebuild after all the bullshit of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cross-posted to Patreon, so if you&#8217;ve read it there, you&#8217;re up to date. Hey, everyone! A couple of months ago, I posted about&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13877\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Development In Trout Nation!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13878,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}