Boo-hoo.

Well, I didn't get the job. Someone with more teaching experience than I have got the job. In fact, two people with more experience. It's true, I've only been teaching two years. I didn't know that I would like to do this, back when I was originally in college and deciding on a career. Oh well.

I keep my adjunct position, continue writing on the side, and keep working on finding a position that does good in the world, one that has benefits and a retirement plan!

Creativity in all fields

One of the things I need to work on right now is finding another job (I still haven't heard about the position I wanted, so I am assuming that I didn't get it.)

I would like a fulfilling job, and I know that finding one will test my powers of creativity...creation of the right circumstances...creation of the right mindset...

Creative thinking to get the right creative/fulfilling job.

February!

Well, it's the middle of February and for once I don't feel depressed. You know what I think it is? It's because I have a job that I actually like. Of course, I'm waiting on pins and needles to see if I will be hired full-time to do what I now do part-time, but at least I feel like I am contributing something to the world with what I do now. I worked for so long without that feeling. I know other people like working just to make money, but I've never had that goal. (Although more money than I make right now is necessary....)

I've decided that even if I don't get the job which I so dearly want, then I definitely have to stay in a field where I feel like I am doing good in the world, that I am working for a worthwhile purpose. My friend Rashida is working for Goodwill; my friend Kia is teaching high school. My friends Lou, Leigh, and Jessica are all professors. They all do good in the world. My friend Val is studying to be a minister. And my friend Charles already is a minister. My calling isn't in ministry. I really feel like my calling is to combine my creativity and my skills to do good...hopefully by continuting to teach where I do right now.

But, if it doesn't work out, then I will just continue working with the combo in mind....using my writing skills to benefit the world.

Cross your fingers!

I have done the interviews...I'm just waiting for the word.

As you know, most writers have day jobs. For the last 2.5 years, I have worked as an adjunct at a local two-year technical college. Love the job, hate the pay.

If I get the job, I get to continue with a day job I love, at much better pay...AND with benefits.

Some day jobs contribute to the writing, some detract. This one's good for me.

What's your "day" job? Does it help or hurt your creative efforts?

Research Surprise

I'm still trying to get my new paranormal off the ground...I'm stymied on whether or not the male lead (notice I use the film term rather than the lit term "hero"...hero is such a loaded word) works with wood or is a master glass craftsman. Part of the story is set in Ireland, the historic home of Waterford Crystal. (And if you know me, you know that I have a slight passion for cut crystal. If I were rich, I would certainly own more.)

Did you know that Waterford's factory in Waterford, Ireland had been closed down last year? I did not. Oh, I knew that they were in financial difficulty, but I had not realized how bad it was.

Nor had I realized that they retired my crystal pattern...My crystal pattern: silly to state it that way, when I do not have a whole collection, but buying a whole set had been the idea at one point in my life. Merrion is what it was called. And I really bought it because I couldn't afford Colleen, a beautiful pattern with lots of cuts and, more importantly, with a knob in the middle of the stem--that adds to the price in a big way. That knob makes the stem that much harder to cut. (That's a piece of Colleen in the pic.)

I can still use the glass cutter idea...after all, my male lead lived "way back when" (I've not exaclty settled on when).

But I still have to do research on wood workers...