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Gayle
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Babbler # 37
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posted 17 April 2001 10:13 AM
Well, I've got two jobs.My philosophy about working is this: Do what you love, and the money will follow! It's always worked for me. I presently work 9-5 on a permanent basis for McKenzie College, administering multimedia courses through distance education. It's not my dream job, but it gives me so much freedom (I'm SO spoiled here) that I don't knock it. It pays my student loans and my car loan, it feeds me (and often, my parents), it pays to keep me in art/jewellery supplies. Besides, I've got set hours and 4 weeks vacation, which leaves me lots of time to do: My Dream Job. MDJ consists of being the webdesigner for a local graphic design company. It rocks my world. I'm doing what I love to do, and getting paid obscene amounts of money to do it! Hell, I'd be doing it anyway, I just managed to trick people into paying me for it. The only way it would be better would be if it were full-time.
From: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | Registered: Apr 2001
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Marc Ponomareff
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Babbler # 120
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posted 19 April 2001 09:18 AM
I've been writing fiction for twelve years, and still haven't made a penny from it. I've been an unremunerated editor and poorly-paid translator, proofreader and freelancer. I somehow manage to stay alive by my skills as a cook.Perhaps inevitably, creative or eccentric individuals, when not engaged in their favorite, unpaid work (be it art, music, poetry, fiction, activism) will always feel as if they are unemployed. Work-for-wages is often drudgery-by-necessity, and saps independence. An artist's Real work, untrammelled by financial considerations, is a noble thing. But damn it all, one is forced to compromise: one has to eat, pay for shelter, and provide for one's children... And so, realist that I am, I may actually live to see the far side of forty
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From: Toronto | Registered: Apr 2001
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Gayle
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Babbler # 37
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posted 23 April 2001 01:58 PM
Maybe it only works for pisces, Audra? ;o)I only ever had one crap job, and it was shlucking plates on occasional catering jobs and cleaning up after, from the time I was thirteen until I graduated high school. I really believe that if you know and love what you're doing and you're good at it and enthusiastic, if you take risks and know where to look and who to ask, you'll get paid doing what you want to do. People do it every day. Confidence goes a long way.
From: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | Registered: Apr 2001
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Tana
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Babbler # 382
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posted 27 April 2001 11:19 PM
I edit a newsletter on First Nations media (which I like), I maintain a railway advocacy site (which bores the hell out of me), I enter mindless data into a database for a large corporation (which pays me well) and I have a kid who takes up the rest of my time and energy. Though I feel fortunate to have all this work right now, I agree with this:
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Perhaps inevitably, creative or eccentric individuals, when not engaged in their favorite, unpaid work (be it art, music, poetry, fiction, activism) will always feel as if they are unemployed.
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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Babbler # 554
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posted 10 May 2001 03:42 PM
I'm a temp. I like being a temp. I like being in a job for only a week or two because it doesn't give me time to screw up.I don't like it when a client hires me through a temp agency, and then keeps me on for a long period of time. If you want to hire me on, then offer me a permanent position. Don't keep yanking my chain. Right now I'm in a media-relations position. I respond to requests from the media. I write press releases and other documents. I really like the creative aspect of the job. It's with a think-tank, so in the process of promoting their research I get to read it as well. It's often quite fascinating. I don't like it when there's nothing to promote. Every once in a while there are stretches where it seems the researchers aren't publishing anything. That's when I get the make-work projects I despise, like reorganizing a filing cabinet and stuff like that. Even when I like a job, I am always applying to other jobs. I have no loyalty to an employer.
From: A thread has merit only if I post to it. So sayeth VVMB! | Registered: May 2001
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Athena Dreaming
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Babbler # 435
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posted 10 May 2001 04:18 PM
Yeah, I have to chime in on the cynic's side of this one.What about the folks who spend 8 hours a day sewing buttons on to suits, like in the Moore's ad? Or gluing shoes onto rubber soles? Or scrubbing toilets and sweeping the street? Cleaning the puke out of hte bathroom in fast food restaurants? Having a job you love that pays is a wonderful thing, but it isn't a necessity and I do believe it is a mark or privilege. For teh vast majority of human history people did whatever they had to do to survive, whether that was hunting, gathering, farming, mining, or whatever. The same is true today. If you have a job you love, great! You're very lucky. If you don't, you're in good company. For example, I would love to be working in a non-profit or in a little business by myself. I think that would be great, psychologically and emotionally. Physically, however, I'm diabetic and have asthma; I"m on a lot of very expensive prescription meds and I need a health plan. That sucks, but that's life.
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Charles
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Babbler # 200
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posted 10 May 2001 06:03 PM
I agree that having a job you love is a major luxury, but one I have enjoyed myself from time to time. Seven years ago I started a company that specialized in marketing and communications for small businesses and non profits. Seven years on we're a pretty large affair to the point that I have time to take on a number of interesting projects on the side, regardless of the $ involved. When not running the show at the agency, I currently spend half my time working as communications and development co-ordinator for a United Church that mostly serves the African Canadian community in Halifax's North End. It's a wonderful experience and the people there have changed my outlook on life (it's true that the workplace can give your life direction); I thought the social gospel was dead until I stumbled upon these "Christian lefties". I also teach courses on marketing, advertising, public relations and public speaking, do a fair bit of freelance writing and was just paid for my first play. Every one of these things has been a joy for me, and I know full well what role luck and happenstance has played in my being able to do these things. I've never had a job a loathed (though when I worked on Bay St. in Toronto I wasn't particularly happy, but I think that was more cultural), and I've been able to create a lot of opportunities for myself. [ May 10, 2001: Message edited by: Charles ]
From: Halifax, NS | Registered: Apr 2001
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Trisha
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Babbler # 387
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posted 11 May 2001 01:57 AM
My last job was claims clerk with OHIP, before that, word processing for MOE, before that legal secretary. Now I'm retired by disability and becoming an advocate. I earned enought to live on and support my daughter, but not enough to go back to school. The only jobs I've ever hated were way, way back, when in school and my first few. My only regret is that I was blocked from going to University. I write a little, and am working on a novel but don't know what I'll do with it when it's done. Otherwise, I'm becoming an advocate, mainly for the disabled.
From: Thunder Bay, Ontario | Registered: Apr 2001
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