Three Pasadena jobs I would die for (er, almost)

In order of my finding them:

1) Church planting intern with Hope Community Church, Pasadena
They're urban. They're multi-ethnic. They're justicey. They like women in ministry. Evangelical is even in their name (Evangelical Covenant). Oh, and they're all about actually doing community together. If churches were allowed to be sexy, this would be a really sexy church. More importantly, I think it's a really biblical church committed to the gospel (eh, but who says that's not the definition of sexy?). Interning for them would pretty much be super-duper cool and I think I would learn a heck of a lot about, well, many different things. Myself. The Church. People. Justice. Patience. Life. I'm really interested in joining their church, even if I don't intern-- I may visit a couple others, but I'm guessing there's a 70% chance I'll end up here.

2) Editorial Assistant for Fuller's Department of Public Affairs
I'd proofread stuff, write bios of faculty for the website, I think also write press releases or other newsy items, perhaps. All writing and basic editorial type stuff. I was always called the grammar queen in junior high, and just having the word "editor" embedded in my title makes me shudder with glee. (Yes-- shudder. It makes me so happy, it's just darn scary.) Sure, I don't know that I have what it takes to be an editor-- but editors are related to publishing which interests me and which relates to books, which really interest me. So being an editorial assistant could never be bad, right?

3) Sale Associate at the Fuller Seminary Bookstore
Ok, so they don't actually have this listed online, so I don't even know that it's available. But I'm trying to find out! Besides the Fuller class books they have other Christian books, and since they're a thoughtful/academic, multi-ethnic, justicey, and overall cool school, they have pretty good tastes. The bookstore sells 1266 InterVarsity Press titles, 80 Paraclete, 1721 Baker (I'm jealous on IVP's behalf), 153 Brazos (which may/may not be double-counted as Baker-- not sure how they do), over 1779 Eerdmans (they have silly-ly listed some as Eerdmans and some as Eerdmans Pub or something, so depending no if those are double-counted...), and a large number of Zondervan (more double-counting issues). So put simply: lots of good, good books. Really exciting. Drooling all of them. Already know I like retail much better than some other positions. Conveniently on campus. Would go crazy to get to try to talk people into buying good books. And what other bookstore would have a stock so similar to what I personally would want to sell if I owned my own shop? I'm convinced this is the closest I could ever find... Oh my goodness! How amazing would that be?

My excitement may seem to increase with each position, but it's not because I want to work at the bookstore more. It's just that I have found three different jobs I actually want, that actually might work, or might not, but at least I found something besides all those work-from-home scams that make up 50% of any part-time job search online. That is pretty darn exciting and warrants a lot of enthusiasm.