maevele | The post about my job.

For the last 11 months, I've been an elected officer in the housing coop organization my house is a part of. It's a part time gig that pays exactly enough to cover the average rent in the org. Except it hasn't been so casual, and many months I made less than minimum wage if you look at how much time and emotional energy it actually was taking up. The organization is having a lot of problems so a lot of my time has been caught up in larger organizational bullshit instead of the focus of the office I was elected to. Like, I'm supposed to run educational workshops and set up trainings, and I've been constantly dealing with conflicts that should be either handled by the houses or go to the board of directors instead, andmahor bullshit about how power is centralized within the org.

I started only doing as much work as I was getting paid for a couple months back. And literally every other officer position has quit since I started, but I stuck out my term. One of them is even suing us for not stopping harrassment from a member and for the excessive hours. Then elections for the new term hit, and I ended up running for both the office I had held, and the "president" position because we had really good people running for the job I had been doing, and someone I didn't have the same faith in as the only candidate for that spot, and figured the coop members would decide which job I got. And I lost both.

This is awful for the organization, because now the only experienced officer is this guy who has his own agenda and is not about the changes we need to save the org, but great for me because it has been eating my fucking life since mid July, and now I'm just going to step back, get some minimum wage work, and make plans to move across country while this organization falls the fuck apart.

I'm supposed to help run a meeting in ten hours, but I've been insomnia raging about the shit going down that's bigger than this.