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...And I guess it's time I started clambering back on.
Don't get me wrong, I've been here -- quietly watching, reading yer stuff, occasionally even commenting -- but I seem to have left off the whole 'generating my own content' part. I see I've made exactly one LJ post in the last month, and no public ones since April. I've been scarce around the message boards, and I've pretty much stopped facebook-updating and twittering (which is a shame since, as most of you now know, the Revolution is on Twitter).
I guess I've just found myself with nothing to say. I've been living in a hazy, hungry, lethargic daze since the end of exams. I spent a while trying to find another temporary job, since my current one somehow has less work for me now, despite losing half its front-of-house staff for the summer, but have given up on it. Nowhere wants to hire me because I'll be leaving town in September.
Even so, beyond 'somewhere else' I don't know where I'm going, or What to Do with The Rest of My Life. I had an interview with People&Planet, and am now waiting on tenterhooks for their reply "sometime this week". It's super-competitive, though, and the hunt for backup plans is not going well. I've been trawling through the "ethical jobs" websites, but their content is mostly so disorganised that it takes hours just to find things I'm eligible for, let alone actually fill in the applications. It's dispiriting.
There was a little while where I had a vague plan for my life. If I didn't get the P&P internship, I was going to move down south and "find a job" doing whatever until I could get one I really wanted, or use the day-job to finance art or writing until I could support myself doing that. I've been moving through 'when I grow up' dreams with all the fickle intensity of a 6-year-old -- although actually, when I really was a 6-year-old I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a research zoologist. I held on to that for over a decade (apart from a brief period when I wanted to be a vet, but that was curtailed by volunteering at our local vets and finding out what it was all about), then dropped it midway through high school for reasons I no longer remember. Then, as long-time readers will know, I came back to it midway through university, after it was Too Late.
So now I am drifting. A few months ago I wanted to write webcomics, but have found I have no particular story to tell with them, nor am I particularly funny. I have a long-term pipe dream of being a newspaper columnist, a professional opinion-haver, but I'm not sure quite how to break into that, and besides the whole field is being overtaken by blogs (like mine). Giving it away for free.
*sigh* Anyone know where I can look for Zoology or Environmental Masters Degrees with conversion courses?
Don't get me wrong, I've been here -- quietly watching, reading yer stuff, occasionally even commenting -- but I seem to have left off the whole 'generating my own content' part. I see I've made exactly one LJ post in the last month, and no public ones since April. I've been scarce around the message boards, and I've pretty much stopped facebook-updating and twittering (which is a shame since, as most of you now know, the Revolution is on Twitter).
I guess I've just found myself with nothing to say. I've been living in a hazy, hungry, lethargic daze since the end of exams. I spent a while trying to find another temporary job, since my current one somehow has less work for me now, despite losing half its front-of-house staff for the summer, but have given up on it. Nowhere wants to hire me because I'll be leaving town in September.
Even so, beyond 'somewhere else' I don't know where I'm going, or What to Do with The Rest of My Life. I had an interview with People&Planet, and am now waiting on tenterhooks for their reply "sometime this week". It's super-competitive, though, and the hunt for backup plans is not going well. I've been trawling through the "ethical jobs" websites, but their content is mostly so disorganised that it takes hours just to find things I'm eligible for, let alone actually fill in the applications. It's dispiriting.
There was a little while where I had a vague plan for my life. If I didn't get the P&P internship, I was going to move down south and "find a job" doing whatever until I could get one I really wanted, or use the day-job to finance art or writing until I could support myself doing that. I've been moving through 'when I grow up' dreams with all the fickle intensity of a 6-year-old -- although actually, when I really was a 6-year-old I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a research zoologist. I held on to that for over a decade (apart from a brief period when I wanted to be a vet, but that was curtailed by volunteering at our local vets and finding out what it was all about), then dropped it midway through high school for reasons I no longer remember. Then, as long-time readers will know, I came back to it midway through university, after it was Too Late.
So now I am drifting. A few months ago I wanted to write webcomics, but have found I have no particular story to tell with them, nor am I particularly funny. I have a long-term pipe dream of being a newspaper columnist, a professional opinion-haver, but I'm not sure quite how to break into that, and besides the whole field is being overtaken by blogs (like mine). Giving it away for free.
*sigh* Anyone know where I can look for Zoology or Environmental Masters Degrees with conversion courses?
