It's the next day at last, which is a big thing considering all the ordeals of yesterday. At around 2 pm I finally calmed down after having my hair washed and finding an email from my stahl "boss." When I got to work, I got to work, and this is work I enjoy. Then I went to my afternoon company class in Csepel, and enjoyed it, too. I got home at around 6.30 pm, and Mom instantly started making a fuss around this entrepreneur business (i.e. the pros and cons of being a vállalkozó vs an adószámos magánszemély).
This went on until about quarter to 8, and by the time she left me alone I didn't feel like doing anything practically, so nothing came out of my boyfriend coming round. We spent longer than an hour with Mom, while she was eagerly typing up keywords in google to find some valuable information about the issue, and in the meantime repeating over and over again what we both already knew, namely that if your are registered as a vállalkozó you have to pay taxes and other things even if you don't earn a cent in that month, whereas an adószámos magánszemély only pays after the money she has earned. Unfortunately my accountant was in a meeting when I called yesterday, so I'm going to call him again. The annoying thing about this whole issue is that we don't get any closer to solving it, while at the same time I'm getting more and more stressed. At some point Mom even suggested that I don't work for that school until everything is sorted out, and in a way I see that she is true because I'm risking losing the wages for my January classes. Obviously, if they don't contract me in my actual status how am I going to get my wage? But on the other hand, I just can't tell a dozen people to go home because I have a problem with management. I'm not like that. I also considered finding a replace teacher for just today or probably Thursday, too, but that would be awkward, too.
I spent the reast of the evening in my boyfriend's room, surfing the Net for jobs that would interest me. At least now I have something close to a clear definition of what I'd like to do. I would happily be a bookshop assistant, a librarian, a journalist, or anything related to publishing and/or books. Unfortunately finding these kinds of jobs is almost impossible, at least that's how I see it. You never know of these positions, they just call someone to call someone, and that's it. I visited the homepage of Penguin Books and it turned out that they provide all kinds of intern jobs and something called work experience. Why don't we have it in Hungary? Last year I wrote to Magvető claiming that I would do anything related to publishing, but all they said was no thanks, we don't need anybody just now. My current internship at stahl.hu is going to end in February, and that's when they will decide which one of us to hire, so please keep your fingers crossed for me.
In the meantime i've decided to concentrate on good things in life because as they say the best things in life are free. For example, we had a long walk with Dad on Saturday in the nearby park, and we actually saw a deer, isn't it something? Or today I woke up with the taste of Colin Firth on my lips. I mean, of course it was just a dream but I spent another five minutes on replaying the scene. (If it depended on me I would probably have chosen Orlando Bloom because he is closer in age but Colin Firth will do, too.) Above all, the bestest best thing is that it's snowing at last. I mean what is it if not a sign? Pity I don't have a fortune teller in my court to explain it.
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