There was a post at Zen Habits at the beginning of the year about the discipline of creating new habits- the idea is that if you repeat something daily, it should be second nature to you after a month, so only pick one thing every month that you want to learn or change, instead of making a huge list and trying to do it all beginning January 1st. So I’ve been doing that with reasonable success so far. During January I want to:
Write down everything I spend. Groceries, vending machines, tolls, unnecessary coffee trips, all of it. I’m doing well with this but it’s depressing to flip back and see some patterns forming… it’s definitely time to buy less cafe food at school, and make more of an effort to eat breakfast at home and pack a lunch. Yikes.
I also made a professional goal, which is to look for a better job… I’m tutoring in the school library right now, which is steady work, and fun, but pays a crummy wage I haven’t seen in six years. It also isn’t really doing anything for my culinary resume so I need to start thinking about getting a better gig. One of my classmates gave me a tip for a job with a certain unnamed hotel chain, and if that pans out I’ll be working a lot more, but with a cool chef who likes to teach, and I’ll have benefits again which would be swell. And apparently if I stay after graduation, a culinary degree buys an automatic promotion to sous chef and you can transfer to any hotel, anywhere you want to work. We’ll see. Could be cool.
