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# My Dream Job Minus the Hammock
- URL: https://bklyner.com/my-dream-job-minus-the-hammock-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2008-12-01T09:18:49.000Z
- Updated: 2017-03-24T21:30:35.000Z
- Author: Ray Johnson
- Tags: a-sister, assistant, booming economy, concierge, dream job, errands, unemployment, #API-Imported

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*(Photo of [Hammock under Palm Trees, Tropical/Pacific](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=hammock+tropical&psc=G&filter=1&ref=bklyner.com#5042523595458129458)* *courtesy of Picasa user Mudassir)*

A post requesting our readers to be patient if the stories aren’t coming up as quickly as we would like:

Thank you to everyone who took our Sheepshead Bites business card when I met you near the Super Stop & Shop. Thank you for stopping by our site. I hope your Thanksgiving was memorable, though for different reasons than mine was.

You see, I had a little accident with a certain hot handle (straight out of the broiler) and a certain M.I.A. potholder (oh, how I wish I had briefed up on [Thanksgiving day safety tips)](http://www.oregonredcross.org/general.asp?SN=201&OP=2806&SUOP=3954&SUOP2=3955&IDCapitulo=663B0ID44V&ref=bklyner.com) that prevented me not just from writing for Sheepshead Bites, but also for typing cover letters, resumes, and e-mails, for my endless job search.

Read more about my dream job after the jump.  

My injuries are healing as we speak and I can now type (though, somewhat gingerly), but am still in the midst of seriously finding a way to pay the bills while having time to write for Sheepshead Bites.

While it hasn’t been as lucrative for me, Crain’s New York reports that “Sheepshead Bay is a top choice for service businesses looking for a booming environment.” Those of you who took the Sheepshead Bites business card, might have noticed the other one for The A-Sister – a service business providing assistant and concierge services (special focus on Sheepshead Bay).

Yes, that’s me. I’m a service business and, believe me, business is not booming. Hence, the traditional job search and the anxiety ensues, as it has for many unemployed people in similar situations [around the country](http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=311833&ref=bklyner.com).

While covering stories in Sheepshead Bay is my Dream Job (well, minus the hammock swaying in the tropical breeze), it *is* — as one of our readers, Daniel, rightly pointed out in a comment to a [recent post](/blog1.php/politics/no-first-amendment-rights-for-bloggers) — an **unpaid** one.

Jared Sandberg expressed for me about why I love this very *unpaid* Dream Job writing for Sheepshead Bites. In his Wall Street Journal’s Cubicle Culture [article](http://online.wsj.com/public/article%5Fprint/SB120820207360513617.html?ref=bklyner.com) of April 15, 2008, he talked about why “…A Dream Job Is One That Isn’t A Nightmare”:

> But maybe people simply like what they do and aren’t, as some management would have you believe, asking for too much–just the elimination of a small but disproportionately powerful amount of office inanity…The matters that routinely rank high on a satisfaction scale don’t relate to money but “work as a means for demonstrating some sort of responsibility and achievement…Pay–even when it’s important, it’s not for what you can buy, it’s a validation of your work and approval,” says Barry Straw.

So, while I keep pounding the pavement and the keyboard in search of a less-than-dream-job, our newest readers might like to take this time to become familiar with Sheepshead Bites – maybe, even read the articles you haven’t gotten to, yet. Each one was written with that sense of responsibility and achievement – not in a hammock or under the tropic sun – but nevertheless in our own little piece of the world – Sheepshead Bay.