I work freelance in a career I’ve been in for a few years but only been self employed for the past few months. I enjoy my career but as it’s been so quiet recently (not sure weather it’s to do with Brexit; although a lot of aquaintances have mentioned it is) and as I’ve been struggling financially I decided to apply for a job at McDonald’s.
I have no problem with working there - especially if it’s to feed my family; however after applying and having my interview and now suppose to be going to a welcome meeting and honestly I just keep doubting myself weather I want the job or not.
It’s not that I feel above the job. It’s other problems like the location of the restaurant I will be based in (center of our small town where I will see EVERYONE I know), the pay is now monthly (it was fortnightly up until a few months ago) so I feel like there’s not much of an incentive, the pay is drastically lower than my other job I do which isn’t really an issue for now but sometimes I am booked last Minuit for private jobs and I worry that if it came to a point where I was booked into McDonald’s and booked for private work; I would take the private work as it’s what I want to do and it’s more money. And I worry about how likely it is that I would be able to do so and keep doing so.
Also now it’s starting to pick up with my other work so I feel I will have more work coming in the next few weeks - again meaning I probably wouldn’t be doing much shifts at McDonald’s. So again I feel like it would be silly of me taking the job if I couldn’t commit to the hours.
Am I making any sense ?
What would you do ?
Ride out the quiet period for a few more weeks and then continue doing my usual job freelancing which is great when I have regular work coming in and when it’s during busy periods (spring- summer)
Or
Take up the McDonald’s job that has secure hours every week but means I would take a big pay drop and loose out on private work as I would only be ‘available’ on the days I’m not at McDonald’s.
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CTRL · 20/04/2019 00:54
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