RangerWickett
Legend
The short version: 20 hours a week at a university library, $11.37 an hour, and I get to dress business casual.
The long version: My efforts to find employment were at the closest point a person can get to 'a terrifying climax' in the world of job-hunting. I live in Atlanta, my family's in Texas, and my lease here is up at the end of July. I had enough money to afford rent to then, but I was unemployed. Seriously, we're talking like $200 in a bank account. E.N. Publishing was sufficient to pay off college loans, but I was distracted in too many directions to be able to really get much writing done. As much as I wanted to do more writing and go writing full time, I was distracting myself with efforts to find a standard job, but none of them were hiring. I'd spent over a year job hunting, and all I had to show for it was a brief stint at a grocery store before the manager told me college graduates shouldn't be working there.
A week and a half ago, I interviewed for a library job at my alma mater, Emory University, here in Atlanta. They'd interviewed me earlier this year for a job that I came in 2nd place for, and, well, they hired me this time.
I'm thrilled that now I've got a steady enough source of income to live in Atlanta, and enough spare time each week to keep doing D&D writing. Sure, I'm a little disappointed that I didn't rally and find the energy to write 40 hours a week and make a living off that, but . . . now I'm not as worried as I was before, so I might actually be able to work toward that goal. The future's not so uncertain now.
The long version: My efforts to find employment were at the closest point a person can get to 'a terrifying climax' in the world of job-hunting. I live in Atlanta, my family's in Texas, and my lease here is up at the end of July. I had enough money to afford rent to then, but I was unemployed. Seriously, we're talking like $200 in a bank account. E.N. Publishing was sufficient to pay off college loans, but I was distracted in too many directions to be able to really get much writing done. As much as I wanted to do more writing and go writing full time, I was distracting myself with efforts to find a standard job, but none of them were hiring. I'd spent over a year job hunting, and all I had to show for it was a brief stint at a grocery store before the manager told me college graduates shouldn't be working there.
A week and a half ago, I interviewed for a library job at my alma mater, Emory University, here in Atlanta. They'd interviewed me earlier this year for a job that I came in 2nd place for, and, well, they hired me this time.
I'm thrilled that now I've got a steady enough source of income to live in Atlanta, and enough spare time each week to keep doing D&D writing. Sure, I'm a little disappointed that I didn't rally and find the energy to write 40 hours a week and make a living off that, but . . . now I'm not as worried as I was before, so I might actually be able to work toward that goal. The future's not so uncertain now.
