Post 4 – So many things, so little time

The Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, the association for which I work, is understaffed and currently going through the interview process trying to expand.  What that means is that the organization is using me to my full potential, giving me a plethora of activities to do.  Apparently, I am a general LMM volunteer, computer skills teacher, small problem computer technician, resume builder, social services “listener,” social enterprise developer, city planner extraordinaire.  Amidst my time talking to the homeless, if you read my previous post, I spend my down-time in the computer lab helping the homeless with their job search or help them learn simple computer skills, even troubleshooting when the old Dell computers don’t do what they are supposed to.  However, when my sponsor needs me in the building on West 25^th, and not at the shelter, I explore past social enterprise business proposals (the end product of my main goal) and write up detailed analyses of the ideas I have heard from the homeless about future social enterprises.  Today, which was new and unexpected, my sponsor walked in with two big maps of Cleveland and told me to go onto Google earth street view and “drive” down the streets to find bike racks.  Then, I marked their locations on one of the maps so that the city of Cleveland, which just bought 200 bike racks, can better place the bike racks around the city.