Right, so... as many of you are already aware, I've been busy like a beaver getting stuff done with my zine these last few days. It sounds weird, but it's so awesome to be doing something I really care about. Even the tedious jobs like printing address labels and dealing with the semi-compitent staff at Staples has been kick-ass fun for me. It has recently occurred to me that I need to do this for a living. I'd been looking high and low for an office monkey job, but I like the idea of being my own office monkey a lot more.
I'm gonna start my own zine and indie-music distro. I want to buy a domain name, hire my friend Jason to do the web design, and sell zines, CDs, vinyl, t-shirts, buttons and stickers online and through mail order full time.
I'm gonna call Enterprise Fredericton tomorrow morning and get them to help me write a business plan and get funding. Because I'm under 30, female, and a resident of the notoriously impoverished Atlantic Provinces, there is lots of financial help available. Go me!
Describe your dream job.
I'm gonna start my own zine and indie-music distro. I want to buy a domain name, hire my friend Jason to do the web design, and sell zines, CDs, vinyl, t-shirts, buttons and stickers online and through mail order full time.
I'm gonna call Enterprise Fredericton tomorrow morning and get them to help me write a business plan and get funding. Because I'm under 30, female, and a resident of the notoriously impoverished Atlantic Provinces, there is lots of financial help available. Go me!
Describe your dream job.
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that's the fighting spirit!!! i knew you were better than an office monkey, fuck that shit!
damn, that's exciting!!
like you i have a need for a high degree of autonomy in my work--- usually that means you have to work a whole lot harder than if you were in a 9 to 5 job, but what you lose in agonising dullness and predictable routine, you gain in empowerment, confidence and satisfaction... and dare i say it, fulfilment.
my dream job would certainly be creative--- writing and performing mainly. plus indulging my interests, like travel, music, comedy, that kind of thing.
for that reason i'm quite excited about starting this PhD. For starters, they're paying me, so it's like a job. Secondly, I'll be back in Belfast, which is small enough to 'network' with the right people, and indulge in all my interests. and then for the purposes of my research, i should be able to wrangle a few travel opportunities out of it, which is all good. and by the end of it, even if being an academic wasn't really how i imagined myself, i'll still have developed the skills for what i really want to do (including teaching as performing, i suppose), so I'll be in a much better position to launch myself in that direction when I finish.
If that made any sense
Good luck Mary, that's great news!!
been out galavanting. was best man at a wedding in maui and some other stuff. so yea i missed the august issue completely. glad to know things are coming together.
what are you using to format your zine? love to see it. ttyl