jobs, money and writing
Dec. 16th, 2006 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mutedtempestAre what's making up my life right now. Tuesday at 9am is my big interview for the sales position, and I'm really nervous but excited at the same time. It'll be my first full time gig, and it's good money for someone still lacking any sort of degree.
I won't know what my grades are for a few days, but I'm immensely relieved that the semester's finally over with. I found a check for $250 from the school today, since apparently they underpaid me this past semester in my financial aid refund. It was a hell of a good surprise. Sad as it is, I'm starting to get burned out on school, which is why going part-time for the next 8 months will be good for me. It'll also give me a chance to figure out what I want to do.
I'm still insanely interested in speech pathology and linguistics. I dropped out of the program at Illinois State, but I really think it'd be a rewarding career since I love children so much. My little brother was born with a cleft palette, so I know a little bit about speech problems in children, and I know how frustrated I was as a kid with limited hearing...for a few years they thought I was mute or retarded since it was hard for me to form words. In reality I just couldn't hear them that well. I'm still about 90% deaf in my left ear, and I qualify for a hearing aid, but I can hear pretty well out of the right one, so I'm trying hard not to resort to that. Whwn I was younger my right ear was bad, too, which is why it took me so long to talk. Luckily, my ear canal has cleared of blockage a little bit over the years, and I can hear pretty well now unless you're on my bad side. Which means if I'm a passenger in your car, talking to me isn't such a good idea. Anyway, all this stuff is basically why I want to be a speech pathologist.
I'd also love to be a travel agent. I wanna go places! I'm just worried I wouldn't make much money. But it'd be easy to get certified, so I probably will at some point. I also love interior design, but again, the money issue. What can I say, I'm greedy. I'm also diabetic and need money for medications. Yeah. But I love to decorate and think it'd be a kick-ass job.
On top of all that, though, I want to write. More than anything on earth, and if I could do that for a living I'd be the happiest person on the planet. Maybe someday I'll be able to live my dream and write for TV or movies or something...maybe publish some poetry. I suck at novels, though, and would shoot myself if I ended up writing like Danielle Steel or someone like that. Anyway, I'll probably always do it on the side somehow, but getting paid for it would be a dream come true.
Anyway, yeah. I think I'm done babbling, and I need to get my lazy ass working on fanfic.
I won't know what my grades are for a few days, but I'm immensely relieved that the semester's finally over with. I found a check for $250 from the school today, since apparently they underpaid me this past semester in my financial aid refund. It was a hell of a good surprise. Sad as it is, I'm starting to get burned out on school, which is why going part-time for the next 8 months will be good for me. It'll also give me a chance to figure out what I want to do.
I'm still insanely interested in speech pathology and linguistics. I dropped out of the program at Illinois State, but I really think it'd be a rewarding career since I love children so much. My little brother was born with a cleft palette, so I know a little bit about speech problems in children, and I know how frustrated I was as a kid with limited hearing...for a few years they thought I was mute or retarded since it was hard for me to form words. In reality I just couldn't hear them that well. I'm still about 90% deaf in my left ear, and I qualify for a hearing aid, but I can hear pretty well out of the right one, so I'm trying hard not to resort to that. Whwn I was younger my right ear was bad, too, which is why it took me so long to talk. Luckily, my ear canal has cleared of blockage a little bit over the years, and I can hear pretty well now unless you're on my bad side. Which means if I'm a passenger in your car, talking to me isn't such a good idea. Anyway, all this stuff is basically why I want to be a speech pathologist.
I'd also love to be a travel agent. I wanna go places! I'm just worried I wouldn't make much money. But it'd be easy to get certified, so I probably will at some point. I also love interior design, but again, the money issue. What can I say, I'm greedy. I'm also diabetic and need money for medications. Yeah. But I love to decorate and think it'd be a kick-ass job.
On top of all that, though, I want to write. More than anything on earth, and if I could do that for a living I'd be the happiest person on the planet. Maybe someday I'll be able to live my dream and write for TV or movies or something...maybe publish some poetry. I suck at novels, though, and would shoot myself if I ended up writing like Danielle Steel or someone like that. Anyway, I'll probably always do it on the side somehow, but getting paid for it would be a dream come true.
Anyway, yeah. I think I'm done babbling, and I need to get my lazy ass working on fanfic.
