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I've been falling in love with it, have been sort of fiddling with it for years in my own craptastic, highschoolish way, and I never even knew there was a specific term for it. Holy cats.
God, I wish I would have focused more on specialized English classes when I was in college. I sort of...sort of want to go back and do that. :x But I don't want to have to suffer through Linguistics hell like Anj did. And it's...not the best way to go for wanting a specific career at the end of it--unless you know what you want to use it for. And I don't. Except for the little voice that whispers "get an English degree, then go back for a Masters in creative writing like your brother's going except with a poetry emphasis"...except for again, lack of specific career at the end of it. And school again--debt, schoolwork/tests/papers (I've been done with that for 15 years now...), still no *real* job at the end (because you can't just say "I'm going to be a poet and publish" because you *can't count on that*). At least Dave's a lawyer in the meantime, and is *good* at the writing he's going and his MFA/writers residencies are going well, and he has this thing of maybe being a professor in creative writing at the end of it which is something real and attainable.
...how many weeks of multiple posts a day? Yeah, can we say 'too much time on one's hands' as well as bored and still pathetically jobless. Least I'm thinking/self-analyzing? >_>; Or at least I'm not just playing WoW all day?
I've been falling in love with it, have been sort of fiddling with it for years in my own craptastic, highschoolish way, and I never even knew there was a specific term for it. Holy cats.
God, I wish I would have focused more on specialized English classes when I was in college. I sort of...sort of want to go back and do that. :x But I don't want to have to suffer through Linguistics hell like Anj did. And it's...not the best way to go for wanting a specific career at the end of it--unless you know what you want to use it for. And I don't. Except for the little voice that whispers "get an English degree, then go back for a Masters in creative writing like your brother's going except with a poetry emphasis"...except for again, lack of specific career at the end of it. And school again--debt, schoolwork/tests/papers (I've been done with that for 15 years now...), still no *real* job at the end (because you can't just say "I'm going to be a poet and publish" because you *can't count on that*). At least Dave's a lawyer in the meantime, and is *good* at the writing he's going and his MFA/writers residencies are going well, and he has this thing of maybe being a professor in creative writing at the end of it which is something real and attainable.
...how many weeks of multiple posts a day? Yeah, can we say 'too much time on one's hands' as well as bored and still pathetically jobless. Least I'm thinking/self-analyzing? >_>; Or at least I'm not just playing WoW all day?
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:00 am (UTC)I'm here, reading and empathizing...
I would love, love, love to get an MFA in Poetry, but I feel you on the "but what are you really going to do for a career?"
I guess you could always be a prof, eh? Or just proof/copy edit as a part-time thing and use the rest of your time to create...
I have always thought that I would haaaaaaaaate teaching, but the longer I am at my job, the better that alternative starts looking.
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:31 am (UTC)The proofing/editing thing though, that's interesting to bring up. Because I have been attracted to that, a lot actually. Used to like to beta/edit for people's fic in certain online fandoms and for my friend when she completed a couple of her novels (hopefully she's getting the bug to finally try submitting things for publication...). And one of the part time jobs I applied for recently (if September can be counted as recently : / ) was for proofreading--and I actually *wanted* that one. Naturally not even a phonecall on that one of course. So that, that definitely I'm going to need to think on. One of the many reasons I probably wasn't called back was the lack of an English degree or current work/exposure to style manuals and technique beyond occasional hobby tasks.
The thought of seriously going back to school does make me nervous though. That would definitely take a total readjustment of lifestyle, as well as incurring debt, something that is actually unusual for us (I was a scholarship kid, his parents paid for his education, all we've got now is the house). But...whether I went for the local community college type places, or back to UNO, both are pretty danged cheap, frankly. Wouldn't be like my brother's law school bills (that's like a small mortgage, criminy). But school would potentially lead to that MFA if I were serious, or at least give time to consider it more fully.
This being said, I think again to my brother, who was already doing the lawyer thing when he *also* did his English degree, via an online university. Honestly, I don't know if I could work and do school at the same time--especially not full time work. But a lot of people do, with ease. : /
I dunno. This might need some researching and serious consideration. But sorry for the rambling >_< I've been 'thinking out loud' via typing a great deal of late. But thank you for the thoughts and food for thought!
Lastly, though! To be honest, I think you would do really well with teaching. With the sort of skills you have from your work (even the skills gained on how to deal with hard-to-deal-with people and high-stress situations ^^; ), and your personality/creativity/outlook on life, I think you could be really good at it.