Mar 14, 2009 18:03
Just sent my resume and writing sample to EARTH magazine. No turning back now - either they get back to me or they don't.
I'm leaning more toward "don't" simply because I don't have enough writing experience, but that's okay, because the whole point of this thing was to try because I doubt I ever would've forgiven myself for not making the attempt.
And for the first time in, well, ever as far as I remember, I've actually *finished* the Big Thing I've set out to do. Big for me, at least - over the course of my life, I have had so many fantastic "ideas" that I put into motion - from trying to start a Yard Work Business for the itty bitty township I grew up in at the ripe old age of 9 with my best friend at the time (we printed fliers and everything; we just never got around to putting them up), to trying to set up an opportunity to have some sort of Youth Fellowship program/lock in at the church I went to in that same itty bitty township (met with the pastor several times, but things never fell through), to writing a letter about that horrible professor I had at St. Cloud who was such a crappy teacher that more than half the class likely failed it to the college dean (even if it wouldn't do any good right away, it would've gone into his personal file and hopefully prevented some other poor sap from suffering through his pointless class; I was too chicken to ever get around to it), and too many other situations to count, and I never finished *any* of them because being good at ideas isn't enough if you don't have the balls to follow it through.
So, for once in my life, I have finished something - even something so insignificant as an application for a job I probably won't get anyway. For that, I'm calling today a win and a success, no matter the positive or negative response I get.
And this post has gotten awful soap-boxy. I'll just stop now. (But still - go me!)
job search,
writing,
application process