I’ve been thinking a lot about this question lately, and it reminds me of the career field I left last year. I used to be a librarian, but I was only considered a librarian with a lowercase ”l” because I never completed a master’s degree in library science. Never mind that I had over twentyContinueContinue reading “When Do I Get to Consider Myself a Professional Writer? **”
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Doing the Prep Work **
I’ve been researching how to improve my blog because there are plenty of bloggers out there who are way better at the process than I am, and they have put the time in to make their blogs amazing. I’m not obsessed with being an amazing blogger, but I am keen to be a good, informativeContinueContinue reading “Doing the Prep Work **”
I Went Back to School: The Introduction **
Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi on Pexels.com What was I thinking?! Okay, I’m an adult. I knew exactly what I was thinking. I’m tired of the library field. I need to focus on something that feeds my passion and pays the bills better than my current job. I’m not getting any younger, and if I putContinueContinue reading “I Went Back to School: The Introduction **”
Humiliations Galore! ***
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Despite the fact that they were spoken by Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride under entirely different circumstances, those two words sum up my career journey this year. Between no call backs for interviews and starting three new (part-time) jobs this year, I’m now a full-fledged newbieContinueContinue reading “Humiliations Galore! ***”
How Do I Unplug These Things? ***
“…I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, andContinueContinue reading “How Do I Unplug These Things? ***”
All Things Subject to Change 