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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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[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.