Job Search and Furniture

You know, I have had a rocky employment history during my short legal career. First, I got a job with a good sized, stable law firm with infinite growth opportunity and without a compensation ceiling. All of my law school friends envied me...that is until this great firm spontaneously combusted, leaving me without two months pay or a law firm to work at. No worries...brush myself off and venture into starting up a law firm. So exciting...be my own boss, get lots of court experience and build a firm from the ground up! Yeah, that sounds cool until your boss (because even though my name's on the shingle, I didn't contribute any cash to the operation so I'm not actually a partner) tells you that after months of working for a pittance, trying to make this thing work, that you should probably look for another job since he's not going to afford to pay you for much longer. So here I am, only employed for another 13 days, looking for a job. But hey, how can I look for a job effectively when I'm still supposed to come to work and bill a full day's work in order to collect my last paycheck? The other problem is that I don't know exactly what I want to do! I hate knowing that I'll probably just settle for whatever job I can get because I need the paycheck, and also knowing that I'll have to stay there at least for a couple of years because the stability of the work history on my resume is less than stellar. If anyone hears of anything wonderful for me to do for a living, go ahead and send the info my way. Thanks!

On a more exciting note- I have taken on the huge project of refinishing all of the wood furniture in my house. It's a lot of work, but husband is excited about it too, so it's tons of fun to work together on it. The first phase includes taking all living room tables (coffee, end, and sofa) and stripping them down, replacing engraved panels of wood with straight pieces, sanding the heck out of them and re-staining them a beautiful shade of chocolate brown that I concocted by mixing stains because all of the stains at Home Depot are ugly. So far we have stripped all of the tables and replaced the busy, engraved panels. We are in the sanding process and so close to done with that. I'm so excited for the staining part! They are going to look so much better! After these are done, we start on the bedroom set. That's going to be an even bigger job! I'm hoping I don't get burned out, because I'd love to do the kitchen cabinets too. My goal is to have it all done by Christmas. What do you think? Will I make it through all of my projects or will I end up poking myself in the eye with a screwdriver because that actually sounds more pleasant than stripping or sanding one more thing? I don't know...I'll let you know! :)