Here's Your Update

Yes, yes the story of my flooding the house is forthcoming. I think I've been hesitant to post it because I realize that despite 1)barely leaving home all day, 2)having no friends, and 3)being unemployed, I have still managed to accumulate an interesting tale of sorts. And yet the account of events I've worked up so far is so...boring?

In light of the fact that I spend hours each day applying to jobs where I promise potential employers that I am creative! and full of ideas! a font of never before thought-of thoughts! that is, in fact, a total crock. (Similarly, I've assured each and every one of these people of my detail-oriented nature and pressed my love for proofreading on many of them. In retrospect, having re-read my letters and resumes, I suspect 30-40% of them received documents containing one or more typos.)

During one of my interviews last week I revealed that I was ultimately aiming for a job heavy on the writing and editing, despite the fact that this position pertained more to my event planning experience. The interviewer assured me there would be ample opportunity for me to flex my English-major skills, "just maybe not in the way you imagine." And I admitted to her then that I don't think I'm actually cut out for the glamorous positions I imagine. Sure it'd be nice to work at one of the publications I love, writing on topics I actually care about, but I can barely come up with something to post on this blog weekly, much less a story idea or two to pitch daily. Rather, I'm feeling increasingly resigned to the knowledge that more mundane, precisely-directed writing assignments are better suited to my skills, although in my heart of hearts I hate to admit that.

So I've been expanding the job hunt, checking the PR/Marketing box on my Monster search despite always saying I was adamantly anti-marketing. I think it would still take a special job to get me to head that route, but then again, I owe $1900 for flooding the house.