The Quest for a Career

Well...I've been kind of busy this week!  Near the end of last week, I made a schedule for myself, telling me which room to clean, which days to wash windows (which I need to start doing), which days to sweep, etc, etc...also which day to blog.  I need to blog more often and I figured having a set day to do so (and having it written down) might help me a bit!
I've been doing art a lot lately.  Both makeup art, and digital art (as well as paper written art, although I have no scanner, so can't share it...sorry!).

First off, this lovely lady is UnnamedLegend (Emily) from Flight Rising.  She's one of my dragons, and I did what I believe is called a "gjinka" of her.  (when you draw an animal as a human)

This isn't art, but Poro was so adorable that I just had to share him.  I had been gone for several days and he missed me, so he crawled up on my comfy chair and hugged my foot.

Black and white version of my makeup.  Not quite as pretty, but still pretty enough

I thought I had more pictures of my makeup, but apparently not.  I really want to get really good at my makeup, so I can do those fancy makeup designs that other people do.  I have a really good idea for a gargoyle look.

Meet Volt.  Volt is a dragon (duh).  This species of dragon is called a "spiral" dragon.  They are...well...basically noodles, which is why people call them noodles!  One of the things they're said to do when they get bored is...well...tie themselves into knots.  That's him tied into a knot.

This is Volt himself.  If you click on him, it'll take you straight to his page!  And if you scroll down, you can even read the lore I wrote for him!

So...other things I've been up to?  Why has this week been busy?  Well, yesterday, I woke up, and I had a missed call from a number that I didn't recognize.  I googled it and it was from Wichita.  I was hesitant, but I called, because I've been sticking out job applications left and right, and, lo and behold, the person calling works for a company out of Wichita, but were in a town just thirty minutes away.  And...he wanted me to come in for a job interview at 2:45!

I panicked (sort of), and quickly cleaned myself up, got dressed, made sure I was all dressy and stuff, almost as if it was for church.  But not quite.  I actually can't remember what I wore right now.  Oh.  I remember my shirt.  But I can't remember my skirt.  This is gonna bother me now.

Anyway, I showed up for the interview and I think it went well.  I was told that I would know by today or tomorrow.

BUT

Today I woke up, and almost immediately I got a phone call from, again, a number I didn't recognize.  Turns out, it was the Casey's just two blocks down.  They wanted me to come in for a job interview at 11:15.  So, again, I hurriedly got all nicely dressed and went in for an interview.

We're in the back room, doing the interview.  She's asking me the standard interview questions (oh my goodness, so many, and they're so confusing...like, one wrong answer, or the right answer phrased wrong and yikes).  I was kind of caught of guard when she asked me why she should hire me over everyone else.  I suppose this would be a good place to use the phrase, "a pregnant pause".  I'm pretty sure my entire face just went blank.

I always have problems with job interviews and questions about yourself.  I mean...there is a fine line between selling yourself and...um...selling yourself, if you know what I mean.  I mean, honestly, you want them to think you know your strengths, but you don't want them to think that you think you're the only one in the world with your strengths in that magnitude.

Anyway.  A nice job interview.  She told me that she'd call me later today to let me know.

Roughly an hour ago, I got a phone call.  It was the lady from Casey's.

And guess what.

The blog you are now reading, is officially run by a Casey's employee!

I go in tomorrow for training.  I'm so excited!  Nah, not my favorite job in the world, because it's not daycare or teaching, or something with little people, but I know I'll like it better than fast food.  I've been praying for a decent paying job that I'll enjoy.  Considering that the babysitting jobs God's given me have been enjoyable, I doubt he'll fail me on the enjoyable part now.

So.

Signing off from a small town in Kansas...your newest Casey's employee!

~Katie

Business Teaching Game?

Okay, so...this game isn't exactly a "teaching" game at all.  It's called Flight Rising an is a game completely centered around dragons.  You breed them, train them in battle, feed them, name them, change their genes around, etc.  Where am I getting that it's a business teaching game?!
Well, also, in this game you do a thing called "gathering", four of the gathering types produces food for you dragons, while the remaining two provide you with other items that you don't need to survive in the game, but can give you cool things.

The way that gathering can help with business type skills is that you decide where you need to gather and how much you need to gather there.  Do most of your dragons eat plants, but you have some dragons that eat meat and you have absolutely zero meat?  Maybe you should go hunting.  Are your food stores all stocked up?  Well, why not dig or scavenge?

Then, with the things you've scavenged or dug up, you can go to the Auction House, and sell them!  But oh no!  What do I price my "white rook" for?!  All you have to do is figure out how much other people are selling their white rooks for, then price your white rook at the same or a little lower.  Or...if the lowest price you could sell it for is less than the price you'd get for selling it back to the store...your best bet is to either sell it back to the store, or hang onto it until the price for white rooks goes back up.

You find all kinds of things you can sell, in your "hoard".  It has different tabs for different things.  You decide what you want to sell and what you want to keep.  Some things, it's better to hang onto.  For example, there's a place in Flight Rising called the "coliseum", which is where your dragons can battle either other player's dragons, or monsters.  I stick to battling monsters.  But they need battle items.  If you have a lightning dragon and a fire dragon, but you only have ability stones for a nature dragon, you might want to sell the nature battle items and get some lightning and fire battle items!

There's also a place in Flight Rising called the "trading post".  At the trading post, there's one place where you can get one thing for free every day, another place where someone buys your items for more than you could sell them in the store, but they get to choose what they want and you might not even have it, one where you can answer questions about Flight Rising and get treasure in return, one where you can trade different items you may have for one big item, usually apparel, for your dragon to wear, and a last place where you can turn some of the things you keep in your hoard into goos, mucks, slimes, oozes, and something else, but I don't remember what, and then you can use those, as well as other materials to make more things.

Also!  If there are things you have in your hoard that you want to make sure you don't sell or throw away or give away, you can move them to your vault.  Which is fantastic.  You can even move gems and treasure into your vault.

How does business come into this?  Well, you have to know what to price your items for.  If you're making things to sell, you need to know what's in demand.  A great way to do that?  The forums.  Not all forums are about selling, in fact, there's one forum that's not even for anything Flight Rising related, it's just so people can have fun and talk about anything and everything.

The more I play Flight Rising, the more I realize I'm doing things like, making business transactions, marketing, sort of budgeting (not exactly) and I feel like if you homeschool (or even if you don't), Flight Rising would be a great place to go and sort of make your own business/market on there for selling this that or the other thing.  Maybe I'm way off, but that's just how it seemed to me.

~Katie