Work Stuff

My progression towards fulltimeness has been anything but direct … interrupted predominantly by the difficulty I’ve had wrapping up some cases and prior work commitments.

Which has often forced me to engage in frequent switches back and forth during the course of any given day.

Amy, Joe, Amy, Joe, Amy, Joe.

Which is not only exhausting, irritating and confusing … but as Singer noted, I must go through a lot of make-up !! lol 🙂

Anyways … finally … last week, I was able to make substantive progress in my transition to fulltimeness … finishing up a significant quantity of work commitment interference.

And as of last Tuesday, my time playing boy has been reduced to:

Wednesdays: When I’m trying to schedule my office appointments with my remaining clients … and since I have bowling on Wednesday night for a couple of more months anyways … it’ll be sort of a convenient way to still make it all work without having to switch back and forth during the day … I’m just spending Wednesdays as a boy.

Sunday mornings: I’m continuing to attend brunch with my parents, brother and his family first thing Sunday morning for a bit longer, though we are talking about how to implement already … so I don’t expect it to be a long drawn out process.

Random: I have a few cases that I have to wrap up or get to a point of turning over. Not that many, but I have a few court appearances, depositions, meetings scattered throughout the next month or so.

Then as far as employment goes … for now I’m running a parallel system.

A great deal of my work is done without interaction directly with other people … usually it’s phone, fax or e-mail. So on days when I don’t have to meet with people, I’m not going into the office during the day and am trying to do most of my work from home, and most won’t notice a thing … that allows me to be myself while still getting the work done that boy me is expected to do … and gives me a chance to start trying to build a practice in Amy-mode … redefine, refocus the areas in which I practice.

And by not going into the office during the day … I eliminate the possibility for encounters with clients that just drop-in without appointment. I’ll go into the office and do or complete my administrative obligations when the risk of drop-in’s are minimal … evenings and weekends.

At the same time, I’m also searching for other employment …

Something where I can work full-time as Amy and very well might pursue as my career. Now, of course, before getting to that point, I might do some temp work, something to help keep food on the table …

But what I’m going to do is attempt to build a practice as Amy while at the same time searching for a full-time job. Whichever one hits first … will be the one I pursue. If attorney Amy starts clicking comfortably, I’ll dedicate myself to that … if employee Amy has interesting opportunities, I’ll go in that direction.

My preference?

I’m really fine with either.

I’d be a great worker bee for someone and having to deal soley with the pressures of job performance, instead of job performance and the additional demands of running one’s own business … is really attractive to me. I’d really like to see how great of a job I could do for someone now that the distraction of gender dysphoria has waned.

On the other hand, I’d miss hanging out with Shaft, OBP, Spuddy, Tenant, Martha and the infamous Skipper … and the freedom that being one’s own boss brings is soooo nice !! 🙂

Which means … each has it’s good and it’s not-so-good … so for me … whichever takes off first is the one I’m going to pursue.

Though when ?? When would that happen ??

Well … now.

I could legitimately eliminate all work commitments and pass them along in a couple of weeks, I’m not doing such right now because … well, Wednesdays as Boy still generates some cash for me. 🙂 So if I got a job tomorrow … I could pretty much start in a couple of weeks … and in some respects … immediately.

Bowling ends in 9 weeks. So unless something happens between now and then … I’m committed to Boy Bowling until April 7th.

Meaning most likely April 8th will be my first, full-time, full-time day.

Oh yeah, and I’ve got April 10th penciled in for getting a bigger set of boobs.

So that’s pretty much where things stand with me right now … transition-schedule-wise.

Unless of course I get a job tomorrow, when all things get immediately moved up !!!! 🙂