The job dilemna

[cmk418]

So tomorrow is the day that I'm officially supposed to begin searching for the new job. It's kinda aggravating because the last four days have been WILDLY productive as far as the writing goes and I'm feeling more excited about it than I have in a long time.

I have conflicting worries about looking right at this moment though. Basically, I don't want to fall into the trap of my old job and have something that keeps me in Special K and hockey tickets but then I look up and 5-6 years of my life have gone by and I still am no closer to where I want to be on the career front. I think the recent birthday is a contributing factor as far as that goes.

And then the worry that if I wait too long, I'm going to be scrambling financially. (At the moment, I'm set through October - so it's not immediate, but still, it'll be here sooner than I'd like.)

So, flist, any advice?

Comments

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Well, if you have until october, worry in october. Right now, concentrate on the jobs you like. If you wind up having to take a day to day thing, make sure you keep looking though.

[cmk418]

Yeah, I'll just take it slow. Only fill out applications for the jobs I want (which seems kinda silly, but there are a whole bunch of jobs that I'd be quite good at that I don't want.)

[cmk418]

So yeah, after I sent that last reply, the first thing I found was for USC's Film School, which I applied to. I don't know if the cover letter sucked or not - my sense of humor came out, but it'll be interesting to know if they have one or not.

I really could handle that job though.

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

YAY! Good work!

BTW,

At home, once he gets there(he gets lost one street over), Sophie is playing with plastic dinosaurs and bowls of jello. It's a game that takes infinite patience, selective deafness and a plastic tablecloth. Jean, veteran of one kid and Sean, has all those.

“How did it go?” She yells above Sophie's frenzied battle between a t-rex and some kind of spikey thing.

Billy shrugs and hangs up his jacket, dodging a glob of gelatine.

“Not better.”

“Any worse?”

“Not really.”

“There you go,” Jean has an overwhelming sense of optimism and it's a little much sometimes. “The glass is half full! Sophie, watch the jello, it's going to drop.”

“Rar! Rrrrr!” Sophie growls and uses the t-rex's tiny arms to pull the bowl back from the edge. Billy sits down and takes the glass that Jean gives him with a smile.SHe smiles back and lets him sit and watch Sophie for a while.

Apparently what's happening in Jelloland is very complicated. It seems that the T-Rex is being attacked by a raptor police force, aided by the pteradatyls. Apparently prehistoric accuracy isn't as big a worry if the habitat is jello instead of construction paper and cotton balls.

“Rrrrr. I will eat you!” Sophie says, making the t-rex lunge at the raptors. The pteradactyls swoop in. “Run! We'll save you!”

The raptors make a mad dash through Blue Raspberry Land to take time to recover in Lime County. Billy takes a sip of his juice and watches the t-rex roar.

“Hey.” He didn't notice Sean come in and the older man grabs his face, turning it this way and that. “You okay?”

“Let go,” Billy protests, pulling away. “I'm fine.”

Sean kisses him, once.

“You're sure.”

Billy shrugs, watching Sean look for a non-sticky place to kiss Sophie. He finds one on the top of her head.

“They want to run more tests.”

“What for?”

“I don't even know. Still having some memory problems.”

Sean looks up from his tie. “You get lost on the way home again?”

Billy bites his lip, doesn't want to answer.

“Shit.”

Sean scratches his head, sighs.

“You got to tell me this shit.”

“Grrrrr!” Sophie's raptors finally make it back and put the t-rex in jail, in a bowl of purple stuff that probably comes from a box with grapes on it.

“Good police work, baby.” Sean picks Sophie up out of her chair. “Now go wash up. Tell Auntie Jeanie Daddy's cooking dinner.”

“I want peas and p'tatoes,” Sophie informs him, then runs out.

[cmk418]

I love this and want to have its children. Seriously.

It's very well done. How everybody's so worried about Billy including himself (except for Sophie who's busy in Dino-land). I really like the way you handle it because in the scene there's all this innocence and cuteness (which I love - don't lose anything) and it makes all the gloom and doom stand out that much more (even though it doesn't really). Am I making any sense? Or should I just say that it's beyond perfect and don't change a word.

And I love that she has a raptor police force. That's priceless.

[michele659.livejournal.com]

I think you should take a little time and look around. I definitely agree that you shouldn't rush into another job just to have the financial security. Not that it's not important,but I hear what you're saying about not wanting another job that you might like but it's not really what you want to be doing.
It's true-time goes by so fast that it's very easy to not notice you're not in the job you want until some years have gone by.
I'm happy that the writing is going well. I'm looking forward to reading more of your stories,and hopefully "Great Risks" soon??

[cmk418]

"Great Risks" is coming along - the next part is about halfway done (I probably shouldn't say that it's been halfway done for about three weeks now, should I?)

I'm currently spending a lot of time working on my screenplay (it's about hockey) so it might be a bit longer before anything comes to pass on "Great Risks".

Hope everything is going well in your life.