Though I haven’t been unemployed in over five years, it feels like I have. I have had employment woes. I really don’t know if I am making some seriously bad choices with good intentions or if there is a deep and serious flaw in my personality that makes it hard for me to hold a job, but, once again, I am sans employment.
My position was eliminated and I am on the dole again. Never fear! I have a plan. I am going to hang out my shingle and work freelance for a while. Maybe forever, if it works out.
This was not totally unexpected, and I have already made inroads into my new path. Big A is working on a website for me to sell my wares. I have contacted a number of talent agencies who find freelancers work. I have been pitching like a mad woman and getting back into the swing of thinking of story ideas. I’m hopeful about freelance work. For one thing I like it a lot. For another, I am very fast. A third would be my experience in marketing myself, which I think I am pretty good at.
But as soon as I got the news, I got sick. I have been sick with a cold-like thing all weekend and I am not sleeping well. Yesterday I watched a whole bunch of Buffy on Roku and then had Buffy dreams. Blah. And I had Bust A Move stuck in my head, thanks to watching The Blind Side.
So look for my new website coming. Big A is designing a logo for me. He asked me to describe myself in design terms and I said something like, “Sans serif, clean, sharper lines, bright colors but not too bold. I’m really a marshmallow inside.” Apparently this is not how he sees me and he laughed and laughed and has been repeating this story to our friends. Who also laugh. Maybe I am just feeling a little marshmallowy this week. Next week I will be back to kicking ass and taking names or whatever it is that he thinks I do.