I have been doing 4 part-time jobs, 2 for 5 years, 1 for 3 yrs (3 months at a time), and 1 for one year. The two that I have been doing the longest are minutes clerk positions for two different cities nearby. I attend night meetings and type the minutes for them. A good part-time job, but I'm getting tired of the same-old, same-old complaints and comments from the public (traffic, density, privacy, building heights). And I'd like to have my evenings and weekends back, because although this gives me flexibility on weekdays, my husband and daughter are home in the evenings and weekends, not weekdays usually.
So I had decided I would back out of the minutes jobs, beginning with the one that pays the least. Last night I went to meeting, and 3 things happened to make me question whether I should quit - 1) it was a short meeting (22 minutes), 2) I got a raise (75 cents more per hour, but it's still almost $4 less per hour than the other city pays me), and 3) one of the commissioners complimented my work, saying the minutes really capture the essece of what happened. He even said they were some of the best minutes he'd ever seen.
So of course, now I think, "It's only two nights a month - how hard can it be?" I need some resolve!
