What the hell do I do with this life thing?
I have been unemployed for eleven months.
I'm going to skip the part where I go on about what I've been doing instead of being a working adult. Suffice it to say that, while there were certainly some grand adventures and some (though not enough) selling of shiny things, my current life in unsustainable, either financially or, honestly, emotionally.
I have not the self-discipline to keep myself as productive as I'd like, nor to make myself more self-disciplined.
But the thought of dragging my ass through twenty-five more admin assistant interviews just to land another temporary or underpaid or stressful position. I got my last job through sheer dumb networking luck; I cannot count on getting anything that good again.
After a few conversations with my fantabulous roommate fiddle_dragon, I am seriously considering getting an A+ cert and taking the plunge into job-hunting in the IT field. This is really not something I think I'm qualified for, but she thinks I have a chance. If I do go in that direction, I'll definitely take the route of getting a certification first. I have had scattered years of on-the-job learn-as-you-go support experience, but I am very bad at selling myself, especially on shaky credentials, and it would be very useful for me to be able to simply hold up a cert as proof to interviewers (and, let's face it, myself) that I Can Do This.
More than anything, I want to work part-time. I want to have enough time to keep doing things like my Etsy shop, writing, being in musicals, learning Ruby on Rails.
Speaking of writing...aiii. I've been unemployed for nearly a year, with nigh infinite time. How come I've not yet written a novel? I create best under adversity and under deadlines, yet I instinctively avoid those very things for the stress they cause me; and then I lament that I am not creative.
Well, it's That Time of the Year. I am pretty seriously considering doing NaNoWriMo.
This is kind of a pointless post. Then again, this has been kind of a pointless Tory recently.
In the solidly good news section, I spent the last while at my computer with a very cute dog in my lap, and both of the games that mllelaurel and I are running at SLAW are full of enthusiastic players. Whee!
Mmm, and the requisite:
Paranoid & Crotchety website update!
Now with more info on works in progress, upcoming runs, and an addition or two in the pipe dream department.
I'm going to skip the part where I go on about what I've been doing instead of being a working adult. Suffice it to say that, while there were certainly some grand adventures and some (though not enough) selling of shiny things, my current life in unsustainable, either financially or, honestly, emotionally.
I have not the self-discipline to keep myself as productive as I'd like, nor to make myself more self-disciplined.
But the thought of dragging my ass through twenty-five more admin assistant interviews just to land another temporary or underpaid or stressful position. I got my last job through sheer dumb networking luck; I cannot count on getting anything that good again.
After a few conversations with my fantabulous roommate fiddle_dragon, I am seriously considering getting an A+ cert and taking the plunge into job-hunting in the IT field. This is really not something I think I'm qualified for, but she thinks I have a chance. If I do go in that direction, I'll definitely take the route of getting a certification first. I have had scattered years of on-the-job learn-as-you-go support experience, but I am very bad at selling myself, especially on shaky credentials, and it would be very useful for me to be able to simply hold up a cert as proof to interviewers (and, let's face it, myself) that I Can Do This.
More than anything, I want to work part-time. I want to have enough time to keep doing things like my Etsy shop, writing, being in musicals, learning Ruby on Rails.
Speaking of writing...aiii. I've been unemployed for nearly a year, with nigh infinite time. How come I've not yet written a novel? I create best under adversity and under deadlines, yet I instinctively avoid those very things for the stress they cause me; and then I lament that I am not creative.
Well, it's That Time of the Year. I am pretty seriously considering doing NaNoWriMo.
This is kind of a pointless post. Then again, this has been kind of a pointless Tory recently.
In the solidly good news section, I spent the last while at my computer with a very cute dog in my lap, and both of the games that mllelaurel and I are running at SLAW are full of enthusiastic players. Whee!
Mmm, and the requisite:
Paranoid & Crotchety website update!
Now with more info on works in progress, upcoming runs, and an addition or two in the pipe dream department.