Reply To: When employers won’t, or can’t help

[Patte Rosebank]

@Evelyn, it sounds like you have several projects here:

1.)  Find a way to earn enough money now so you can pay your bills on time.

2.)  Put together the things you need to promote yourself as a writer.

3.)  Put together the things you need to promote yourself as a graphic artist.

While (1.) is the most urgent, you should also devote some time to the other two.  Just a bit at a time, and it’ll add up quickly.  When you start getting work, you don’t need to choose just one job.  You can have a bunch of jobs, like me!

 

As for networking, lots of us actually hate parties, because we have so much trouble with one-on-one small-talk, especially when there are so many other conversations going on around us.  Our brains just can’t filter out what’s important from all the rest.

What’s really funny (strange, not ha-ha) is how many of us are completely comfortable standing on a stage in front of thousands of people, and talking to them completely off-the-cuff.  But at a party, you’ll find us alone in another room, happily petting the host’s dog or cat.  Jerome Howard (“Curly” of the 3 Stooges) was famous for this.

 

“The Adventures of a Lady Trucker”  would be quite the book.  If you had kids, you could call it “The Adventures of a Mother Trucker”.

Or maybe not.

Did you carry a little voice-recorder and dictate your adventures as you went along?  It’s way faster & easier than trying to write them down.  Even if you were to dictate them now, at least you’ d have captured them, and you could transcribe them (or get someone else to) later.  That’s why lots of writers and comedians carry voice recorders.

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