what would you REALLY like to do with your life?
- Thread starter Cheesypoof
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im sure you could do that - get yerself a column!
fogbat
The Talibum
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
Float into space and be able to rewind the earth to when it was formed and watch everything that has ever happened on it since then, with the ability to fly and turn myself invisible, so I could go to certain areas at certain times and be like a fly on the wall to every great historical moment from the dawn of man to the discovery of DNA. Obviously I’d like to be able to suspend and fast forward time, and have an infinite amount of time to do all this in. As well as make myself visible and be able to live and interact with the people of the past without having any impact whatsoever on the present time that we live in now.
How exactly I’m going to achieve this I’m not quite sure, but I’m working on it
How exactly I’m going to achieve this I’m not quite sure, but I’m working on it
Cloo
Banana for scale
I'd like to be a freelance journalist with a steady workload... that way I could do something I enjoy and fit it well around kids. It would be less a matter of working 'x days a week' and more 'during school hours every weekday'.
I'm hoping to drift that way at work now I'm part time, as I've suggested to my manager that I write for some of the education magazines I was editing (to cut down on the problem of non-delivered articles holding everything up).
I've yet to confirm whether they will try me with this, but it would be great if they do. If I can get writing going, I guess I might aim to go freelance, ask my employers to keep sending me a few articles a month, so that I have a core income, and start touting for more work. Might work out.
I'm hoping to drift that way at work now I'm part time, as I've suggested to my manager that I write for some of the education magazines I was editing (to cut down on the problem of non-delivered articles holding everything up).
I've yet to confirm whether they will try me with this, but it would be great if they do. If I can get writing going, I guess I might aim to go freelance, ask my employers to keep sending me a few articles a month, so that I have a core income, and start touting for more work. Might work out.
cos you'll make me cry
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Go for it, most wildlife photogs travel a fair bit..
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
I'd like to be overworked and underpaid, taken for granted and eke out a pointless existence at the beck & call of unappreciative exploitative types, all the while deluding myself that I'm actually doing the right thing, and that so long as I can persevere until my premature, stress induced death brings a final, blessed relief, it will at the very least keep my mind off of the unerring worthlessness of everyday life.
You see, unlike you poor sods, I'm already living my dream!
You see, unlike you poor sods, I'm already living my dream!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
To teach kids to read and to be part of a campaign that successfully encourages people of all ages to read (more) books.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Same here, I'm churning out articles and short stories on a semi-regular basis and it seems to be paying off a bit. Certainly enough to make it worth sticking with anyway.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Are you an NUJ member? And if so, has it made any difference to getting work?
The core of my plan would be to get my writing to be frequent enough that my employers need it, so I could go freelance and get them to still pay me for it so that I could leave my job with at least some income guaranteed for the foreseable. I suppose I could build other streams of income up alongside my current job as well.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Successful author writing from my Lorne or Mornington Peninsula Victorian mansion.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Despite the fact I live in Wigan, and that I am unemployed, I am actually quite happy with my life.
I have plans. Not massive ones, but small plans achievable ones, that I am slowly working towards.
I have plans. Not massive ones, but small plans achievable ones, that I am slowly working towards.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Pies? Uncle Joe's mint balls? Goddamn it, we need to know....
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I am going to become uncle joe. I have been minting my balls for months now.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
See my kids grow up to be happy and contented.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Are they stripy now?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
I wish I owned a farm, rather than worked on one.
I'd like to do more with pigs and have a cider orchard.
I'd like to do more with pigs and have a cider orchard.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
scifisam
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I'd like to have a publishing deal which forcd me to deliver stories at a set point in time. See, I know I can write well - despite what my posts on here might tell you - but I also know that I'm useless without a deadline. Just 'having time to write' would result in me writing more, yes, but on Urban.
I could see you being good at that.
I do that.
I could see you being good at that.
I do that.
See my kids grow up to be happy and contented.
why cant all dads be like you?
ive thought about my biological dad loads tonight for some fuckin reason and what a shit he was and cried like a motherfucker...
)but im on a comedown and feeling fragile after last night.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
At some point I'd like to have the money to get a second hand bookshop/book bindery, one that didn't need to make a profit to keep going. Would be nice if some of the books sold, but even better if people just wandered in and spent a couple of hours reading, maybe donating their old books and so on.
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