Junk and Stuff: the second attempt

[naomi_jay]

I decided to delete my previous wangsty entry and try to be more upbeat. So here are some things that are happening with me right now:

1. I'm looking for work as a trainee librarian. Yes, I've only been in the new job a few months, but some things just don't work some times and this is one of them. I always said when I graduated I'd love to go work in a library. I got put off by a horrible temping job, but that was, like, six years ago. Time to hero up, frankly. So I'm in the process of filling in a tedious University of Cambridge application form and pestering my friends who already work in the University libraries for help with a cover letter. I actually want this a lot more than I realised.

2. I finished up a novella over the weekend which I feel dubious about. It's very short - 13k - and I don't know if it works or not. I only worked on it because the alternative was giving my full attention to A Serbian Film. Anyway, if anyone has the time to beta read it and just tell me whether it's a pile of pants or not, I'd be very grateful.

3. Kyle is (we hope) going to start an IT training course next month. It'll make money tight, but it'll mean he can escape his horrible day job and go do something he likes. I find it funny (in a not-really sort of way) that he's desperate to get into a 9-5 office job and I'm determined to escape one. If only I was any good at sales, we could job-swap.

4. I got my first freelance article-writing cheque yesterday. Eight whole pounds! Lol. So that was okay. I also have some royalties from Evernight Publishing to accept via Paypal, but every time I follow the instructions to accept the payment, Paypal tells me there is no such transaction, so that's not okay but I don't know what to do about it.

5. There isn't really a five, but I wanted to end on a five. So ... um ... Yeah. That's me right now, minus the wangst.

Comments

[david-bridger.livejournal.com]

Good luck to you and Kyle in your career switches. Sometimes it just takes a while for us to realise where we should be. I hope this works brilliantly for you.

That's interesting about Evernight, as I'm getting ready to sub to them. Do all their royalties come through PayPal. I detest PP so that would be a deal breaker for me.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^_^

PP seems to be Evernight's standard, but I'd have to double check my contract to be sure. With Damnation Books, I requested cheques instead, which is it's own kind of tediousness, but they were happy to do it, so it's probably worth asking.

[david-bridger.livejournal.com]

I ask for cheques from all my publishers. I'd rather pay outrageous currency exchange charges to my bank than trust PayPal with my money again.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Oh? I don't like Paypal, but I've never had any problems with them beyond that I just don't trust that kind of system.

[david-bridger.livejournal.com]

When a criminal hacked into hundreds of PP accounts, stole credit card details and got away with a couple of thousand pounds from mine, PP's customer service policy was "Tough. It's nothing to do with us." Fortunately my credit card company's theft department are superb at their job and I got it all back, but PP couldn't have cared less.