When I grow up, I want to be...

POSTED BY: SpaceAnJL
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 02:11
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 24, 2006 10:26 AM

My bad man. I wasn't refering to your specific situation at all or making any implications. I should really read more about things before I put my two cents in. I was just speaking generally about how we're all going to find ourselves in a pretty lousy place with the way the job market is going and the insane amount of kids graduating every year from school who will end up delivering pizza or sweeping floors to pay the bills.

You're right about doing what you love. I hope I figure out what that is myself soon. I don't dislike my job, it's just that I had such high hopes about what I'd be doing at 26 years old and now that I'm going on 27 I'm not really thrilled about my own lot in life. I have no debt which is nice... I have no mortgage or car insurance, which is also nice should I decide to just up and leave anywhere it would just mean snaking out of a lease and transfering the title of my car... and I'm not married either, which after seeing how my parents and some of my friends turned out after marrying young, I also view as a positive. I don't have a degree myself, though I attemted college several times. I can't stand college or school and I really can't set my mind to learn any of the bilge they fill your head with if you're just going to college because you think you're supposed to. I usually just don't go to class after a few weeks and then say to myself "nice waste of money ya big dummy." More power to you for gettin educated. I work with several people who have bachleor degrees and we all get paid the same. They all had nicer jobs pre-9/11 and pre-job outsourcing. Now they're all down here with me.

Good luck to all of you.

Edit: Yuck... I'm getting all downer again. I like my junkie post better.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." myspace.com/6ixstringjack

SPACEANJL

Monday, July 24, 2006 4:24 PM

'Kay, so I bought the Big Lie, that if you work hard and get good grades, you can get a good degree and a decent job.

'They' don't tell you how gorram soul-destroying that will be.

If you have to write, then you will. No way round it. Don't try not to, because that way lies madness (depression, anxiety, ulcers...)

I did all the 'right' things, and I'm not where I'm supposed to be. But I'm getting there. Just needed to fly out a little further...

Somebody took my sky from me once; it ain't happenin' again.

ALLISA

Monday, July 24, 2006 7:40 PM

regular 9-5 I'm kind of a "girl friday" at a legal office - which mean (for those of you too young to get that reference) I do what needs doing.

I love to write tho - I recently left a Robert Jordan RP site cuz it had possessed me and every bit of inspiration I had lol - hopefully I'll get some gumption back soon and start writing my own stuff again.

You know what the chain of command is here? Its the chain I go get to beat you with to show you whose in command!

WHITEFALL

Monday, July 24, 2006 8:32 PM

Urgh... it's weird, I'm not one of those folk who can just feel at age 10 that they are born storytellers, I dont think I've ever written anything longer than a 30 minute play or two (and even then I've never completely polished them to my satisfaction), but still I wanna do the writing thing. Why? Partially because I can think of nothing else I really would want to do, but... meh, I figure, with all the people who desperately love the craft probably mostly failing miserably, I may as well try a different approach.

But then again, there is this idea: if I worked as a screen writer or something, as a day job, then maybe I could create something I'm proud of, and as my job. And that'd make me happy.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:56 AM

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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Urgh... it's weird, I'm not one of those folk who can just feel at age 10 that they are born storytellers, I dont think I've ever written anything longer than a 30 minute play or two (and even then I've never completely polished them to my satisfaction), but still I wanna do the writing thing. Why? Partially because I can think of nothing else I really would want to do,

Well, maybe you could hire yourself out as a proofreader (what I do to make spending money), or look into becoming an editor or script-doctor.

('Cause, gods know, there are plenty of scripts out there that need doctoring. Lucas, I'm looking at you.)

That's kinda reassurring, actually: look at how many truly crappy movies/series/books/games get made/published. If that go-se can make it through the grinder, then so can we! Hell, we're Browncoats! We have seen (and inevitably, learned from) the genius of Joss. Doesn't that make us uniquely qualified to produce Quality, and to recognize it when we see it?

Our fandom should be a selling-point!

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

SASSALICIOUS

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:53 PM

When I was younger I wanted to be an astronaut, the first female president, and a fighter pilot.

At 17 I decided marine biologist.

Now I want to be a doctor, working with low-income people or abroad.

But truthfully, I just want to be a nomad.

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:11 AM

Well, not to contradict Rose or anything, but I thought I'd throw this out there for you, Whitefall. A high school friend of mine recently got her teaching degree in California, and it didn't take her all that long at all. She majored in History and minored in French at a UC, and went directly from college into a teaching certificate program. She did one semester of college-type classroom work, then one semester of student teaching, then took three tests for her certification -- one for History, one for French, and one for CPR and emergency type stuff. Her first set of jobs was as a substitute, and her second job was as a long-term substitute for a teacher out on maternity leave. She just got a permanent position -- and Whitefall if I remember where you live correctly, she did all her training and teaching within about 25 miles of where you live. It wasn't cheap (she only just moved out of her parents place about a month ago), but it didn't take all that long, either.

"Find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life."

Ha, if only! I'm fortunate enough to have a job that I love and wouldn't trade for anything, and my husband is fortunate enough to be working for the company he's wanted to work for literally since he was a teenager. That doesn't mean that isn't difficult to get up in the morning some days. It's tons better than the jobs I've had that I hated, but it's still work. Even if you're a chocolate taste tester, eventually you get sick of the taste of chocolate, or sick of filling out the forms about how the chocolate tastes.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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