Ode to Part-Timers
We’d like to take a minute and express our deep admiration for our part-time members. We have deep admiration for all of our members, a very dedicated bunch of writers, but a part-timer is a rare and unique individual. A part-timer is usually someone who spends days at a regular job typically not related to writing--investment banker, therapist, attorney--and comes to Paragraph in the evening to toil away at a novel, memoir, or other creative endeavor that has no chance to surface during the part-timers busy day. This takes stamina, determination, ambition--qualities we both wish we had more of. To show our deep admiration, what we’ve decided to do is try to make part-time writing a little easier. That is, a little more flexible. We're expanding part-time hours.
Currently, part-time means access on weeknights and weekends. That's six a.m. to six p.m., Monday through Friday, and 24x7 on Saturday and Sunday.
What if, we wondered, nights aren't enough? What if New Yorkers aren't the night owls everyone thinks they are? What if New Yorkers are more morning people--people with children and dogs that wake them in the wee hours of the morning and need a place to escape quickly and quietly; or people with extreme motivation who rip off the bedcovers raring to be creative, thirsting for that first cup of coffee and a keyboard; or people who find anything that doesn't get done before eleven in the morning just doesn't get done? The only way to put that to the test is to open up the mornings at Paragraph.
New part-time hours, effective as soon as we get the Web site updated and write the email blast to let everyone know: M-F, 6PM-11AM; SAT-SUN, All Day.
And mornings at Paragraph are truly wondrous. The space is pin drop quiet. There are desks aplenty (full-timers tend to come in after 10). The light is fresh and soft. The coffee is just brewed. And the mood is optimistic, full of anticipation of the vast amount of work that can and will get done that day.
Posted at 12:11 PM | Comments (1)
Posted by greta Herensztat-Wizenberg
Oct 31, 2006
Oct 31, 2006
Hurrah for the morning shift. My problem is the following: I teach mornings and late afternoons. I could use a space between I:00pm and 6:00pm. Any solution???
In any case thank you. GHW