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amorettea (amorettea) wrote,
@ 2009-10-02 23:05:00

Current mood:

tired

thefridayfive: Careers, Dreams, and Reality

1. What did you dream of being when you were a little child?
A writer of great novels.

2. What did you think you might become when you were between the ages of 12-13?
A writer of great novels.

3. What career choices did you consider as a young adult?
I majored in television production because I was going to make ground-breaking television shows. Or maybe educational films. I wasn't sure.

5. Have you changed careers since then? Was it by choice or necessity? I write for the local newspaper. I am the city historic preservation officer. I do vendor service at retail stores. I need the money so I take the job. I was never really cut out for the stress of Hollywood, anyway. Lack of talent may have had something to do with it but lack of ambition, drive and cutthroat instincts were a problem to. Plus, I hate living in big cities!

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slashpine
2009-10-03 08:20 pm UTC (link)

Umm... what is number 4?

Clearly, though, you are a writer through and through. I mean, that's how we know you in fandom.

(Although I'll be driving through the eastern part of your state next week! Through your town and others that I once lived in or worked out of like Dickinson, which I could really forget. On my way to to a conference in Madison and how could I pass up the chance to see some favorite country again? I shall wave to you as I pass by going there and coming back! ALthough meeting up for coffee wd be fun, too!)

#5. It's sad how many jobs we dream of in childhood turn out to have huge costs in terms of stress, or low pay, or irregular employment, or living in horrible cities. I don't know why this is and am not going anywhere special with this comment. Just sayin' it's ... I dunno... sad.

Also, I would totally read your great novels!

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-18 07:02 pm UTC (link)

The answers to those questions sound so like me. From the time I knew how to write letters I wanted to write. In middle school I wrote story after story in school (because I didn't really have access to paper at home) and crammed them into my lockers. Couldn't wait until I went to college and learned to be a writer.

We were just discussing this this weekend, but I went to college at a time when symbolism was king. It wasn't what your story said, but what was written in the background (usually sex or religion.) I did horrible in my college writing classes and quickly gave it up (though people always came to me with help with plotting and pacing of their stories.)

Writing comes to me in fits and starts. It has been gone for several years. I was fortunate to have the internet during a time of great quantity if not quality of ideas. At least my stories are not stuffed in drawers or lockers. I want and need it to come back.

My jobs were never related to my undergraduate work. I worked in a library, an admissions office for a college, a drug abuse center, as a temp in just about every kind of business you can imagine, and finally went to law school. After law school I worked in a bakery (go figure). I worked a very short time for two different law firms and ended up with the longest working time at the Columbus Symphony. Odd where life takes you.

McJude (who doesn't look at all like a human being)dkccqr

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