there! I said it out loud...

Lately I have been feeling rather trapped in my nine to five job as an Occupational Therapist - during our 1-2 year wait for a Green Card (from your friendly neighbours to the north), I am relegated to working strictly as a therapist.

I found out recently that this even applies to extra work on movies and television - on a whim I setup a profile at www.extrasonly.com and was shocked to receive a text and email five days later. I was offered the chance to audition for the role as a featured extra on the film "Gone" with Amanda Seyfried, which is slated to start filming in May here in Portland. I would be paid $250/day and even potentially get a credit in the titles! After hemming and hawing for a few hours I managed to get ahold of an attorney who told me without a shadow of a doubt that I would be deported if I was caught taking a job from an American worker, even if I donated my pay to charity or declined to be paid!

So that was that. Sadly this news only served to deepen the feeling of entrapment I've been having the past few months now that the wedding is over and I am still working in various nursing homes, more than a year after I quit in search for greener pastures!



My husband was very sweet however, and put it into perspective that if I was offered work so quickly I would probably be able to jump into that type of work again once I was legal here in the U.S.

So for now, I am going to try to do more yoga, take more walks, get back in shape...and cross my fingers/toes that our freedom to work as we please is on the horizon!