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[lavendertook]

Writer's block sucks. Brain block sucks worse. Being without a job soon is really gonna suck too. Ten fucking years. /-:

This moment of self-pity brought to you by thousands of unemployed squirrels with no wheels to turn.

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[mcsquare.livejournal.com]

Employment seems to be hard for everyone to find these days. It's not just you. :) What kind of job are you looking for?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

It's a little complicated. I'm in grad school working part-time and trying to subsist and finish up my work, and I've been living this way for ten years now, but I've exceeded deadlines and lost my work study funding--so everything is up in the air right now. I'm not sure I can deal with incurring more debt at this point, however things work out, so may be going out looking for editing, article writing, tech writing, grant writing type work soon.

Just trying not to keep worrying about it all and keep focused on the task at hand: to write a tough theoretical paper, while being dispirited by the worth of the project at this point with the extent of the abuse of power going on in the corporate climate of academia these days. If any of that made sense.(-:

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

Awww, lovie. *hugs*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much just that little thought of a hug helps at this moment--thank you, dear one. And for being the one who provided me with this community in the first place, I can't thank you enough.(-:

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

It seems little enough compared to all you've given me.

*hugs*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Awwww! *snugs* (-:

[hakamiah.livejournal.com]

Want my job? Because I don't.

AHAHAHA. Ahem.

:(

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you're having a lousy time with it. *hugs* What's getting to you about it--is it tedious or stressful, or both? None of the jobs I've ever had ever engaged me intellectually, so then I went back to school, which I figured on doing anyway.

But I moved to this area to go to school without knowing anyone here, and this program is way too competitive and fragmented to find community in (I think that tends to be the case in most PhD granting humanities programs, but this one at U of Maryland is particularly bad)--and I'm not the kind of person who can thrive on isolation, so I wasn't well set up for this venture.

So I may be on the job hunt soon--I'm hoping that work outside academia in the DC area might turn up something interesting for my skills, unlike what I could find in North Carolina.

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, writer's block sucks. *sympathises greatly*

Unemployment - this also sucks. My own state of employment is highly dependant on rash students who need tutoring and how much I can exploit the library to pay me to do things I enjoy (and they're gonna catch on one of these days ....). *again, sympathises greatly*

*continues to sympathise; wishes luck; gives hug*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Well, now that the thing I feared has just happened and my work study ran out, I'm not working at the moment, so hopefully I'll be able to iron out a thesis and write the thing in the next couple of days.

I hate the tedium of a regular 40+ hour job, but dealing with the stress of everything that changes each semester in negotiating the bureacracies of the university at a lower than subsistance level, as well as the hostile social climate, I'm not well cut out for. And I really need health benefits at this point.

Doing what you love is important. Is the variability of your work schedule working out for you?

*Hugs!* (-:

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

*hug; gives chocolate hobbit*

If I had the money, I don't think I'd ever leave the academic world ... but money I don't have, and I spent a good deal of my undergrad time working near full-time. Not something I want to do again.

I do miss the comfort that comes from a regular paycheck and from health benefits (I have medical insurance - individual policy - costs far too much and doesn't include meds .... grr). I like the challange of having a few jobs - but sometimes it's a bit overly chaotic.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

(-: Oooo! *nibbles*

Understood. There are some universities that pay enough money to their humanities TA's to subsist on the cost of living in their areas, but mine is not one of them. If I had it to do over again, I'd pick my grad school by how well they paid their TA's--a decent pay rate means someone in the department or university has the interests of graduate students and their survival in mind and it might be a supportive environment. Again, Maryland is not one of these. /-:

Yeah, the trade off.

[citlalinicue.livejournal.com]

I know how badly writer's block can suck, and I know how much you have riding on this. But think of how far you've come, sweetie, just a bit more left.. you just have to push through it..

On a more practical note, have you tried a bit of exercise, perhaps? Sometimes freeing up the body can help with mental blocks.

You'll get through this, hon. We're all rooting for you.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*Snugs, you!!!*

I couldn't have gotten through the last hurtle without your cheering, truthfully, sweetie. On top of work study catching up with me yesterday, I ran into the prof who is grading my paper--she was so inappropriately nasty I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen so much in this place already. It was tough. It's no wonder MESPT has been such an escape! I'll tell you about it later.

Thanks on the exercise--you are right about that! The bright side of my current situation is I may be able to get back to it now. Ahaha!

Thank you! And rooting right backatcha with your school work, dearie! *Hugs!*

[spookystoy.livejournal.com]

{{{{Lavender}}}}

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear! *hugs back* You have no idea how much I appreciate it.(-:

I'm sorry I didn't mention it before, but Ecthelion's post with the sock was just hilarious--a perfect MESPT moment--made me LOL!!! It's one of those posts that shows that we need to have the serious storylines to play off of to create a funny moment like that. (-: If I were done with my paper, I'd send one of my hobbits to go post to Esmeralda. Will hopefully be out to play soon.(-:

[spookystoy.livejournal.com]

You are welcome!

Ehehe, thanks, he's fun. Hope you're doing well with the paper. Don't mind me or my pups, I think all of my muses are on vacation at the moment. Hope they will be back someday.