get a writing job

Do It Yourself! (Right down the alley after “Just Do It”)

Well, my friend helped me achieve this. We have started a website together (to be launched soon) where we will post our “reflections along the Nile”. It may not be a profit-generating venture but its an avenue to post out my ‘serious’ writing. :) Also, with the same friend, I often sit down and have an ‘artist write-together date’. Its a blessing to be able to share that and she’s also going to buy the artist’s way soon – has ordered it already.

Plus, Now I’m officially employed. I’m choosing between a position as staff writer and health and science editor. I think i’ll be going for the latter. Either way, I think I got meself a job paying me for clickety-clicking!

Hallelujah! Thank God! :)

And thank you all really :) once again!

yay! I finally now answer with “I write”. And it is such a brilliant feeling. I only realised that after a few times of have replied with that. O MI GAWD! I say “I write” when people ask me “So what do you do?” Yay! ::does a little dance::

I don’t have a full-time job but I’m doing some freelancing. Just turned in my first freelance assignment for a local magazine yesterday. I’m not sure what the feedback is, if its going to be published etc. etc. but fingers crossed tight! :)

...so one of the 4 jobs that I applied to (I didn’t apply to one) has rejected me. I’m working at 2 jobs, both of which are temporary, but I could continue at. Unfortunately, they don’t pay competitive prices, and one of them seems to be squeezing me like a lemon.

Oh well, it hurts a bit to be rejected et al, but what can you do. Not everyone sees the brilliance that is Chi. :)

I’ve been reading up about positive thinking to help guide my thoughts in the right direction, and it says:
You are what you think.
except I keep hearing the resonance with
You are what you eat.

Food for thought right there, ain’t it? ;)
mwah babes! One day I shall be riding the rainbow..One day…!And so why not today? :)

okay i’m not sure why I’m not marking this as done.. BUT!

I now work as a copyeditor for a local newspaper!!! I’m on a ‘trial basis’ till the end of the month, but I think they really would like me to stay on at the work. It really is a formality and even I need to decide between this offer and – IF I get it – another offer for another magazine. I’d really like to work for that magazine rather than the newspaper, but there are SO MANY BENEFITS for working with the newspaper, too.

also, like out of nowhere (not really, cos i’d been applying, telling friends, sending cvs everywhere) i heard from 3 other places about jobs!!

Thats a total of 5 jobs for which I am being considered in a week!!

One of them – not a writing job – REALLY wants me, even with flexible hours. “You have a very impressive CV” (And so WHY wasn’t it making the rounds and the news earlier???!!!!) NO COMPLAINTS! I’m as happpy as a bumblebee! I am thinking of doing 2 jobs simultaneously which may exhaust me if I’m not careful, so I have to have an honest talk with some employers.. yay!

GOT MYSELF A JOB!!!

Thank you all for keeping me spirits up! it worked.. just took that little bit longer! ::hugs::

...this looks like its not going to happen, or at least not at the place I wanted it to happen. The leading magazines in Cairo just don’t seem to want me. Today I asked for the status on my application, and X Magazine replied that Y Magazine should have replied me, when really Y magazine and I had a small problem with strained communication of sorts. So basically in short the answer is “no, we’re not hiring you”, and it feels kind of wrong, kind of dirty, kind of fishy.. and i don’t want to play games.

I can understand that I may have made a mistake when I accused Y magazine of stealing an idea (my hubris, nails on my coffin) but comon they’re not hiring me cos of that?? I was hoping they would ‘understand’..

laweeez, say something nice, like i shouldn’t give up.. cos i totally am feeling like it :’(

Please God, I want a writing job. I want it so bad.

Its okay though, maybe mainstream is just not easy. I hope I meet one of the two people involved and sort it out eventually – or that all this drama is really scaffolding for something better. Hope hope hope.. :(

...is the universe not conspiring in helping me achieve this? :<

Peeps that were asking for my CV are not getting back, peeps are not responding to my story pitches. wah wah wah! and here i am firing cvs and emails left-right-center. If i weren’t a little shy, I’d be at someone’s doorstep.. asking them to let me in!!

..I committed a professional faux-pas of sorts. I thought one of the ideas on a mag was v. similar to one I had submitted to the same magazine- so I wrote the editor asking to explain, and turns out it was quite an unrelated thing. I felt absolutely foolish but tried to make amends in another email.

Now, the company interested in hiring me as staff writer is a sister-publication. I hope I don’t get discriminated.. Not that that would be the only thing between me and the dream job – Gawd, I want a writing-job so badly.

Failing that, I’m also looking at volunteer-work. Writing, I can still do on my own – need to work out a routine. Going back ot reading The Right to Write by Julia Cameron.

in the sense that they are freelancing, and not permanent or even temporary positions, just two writing assignments..

and now that I have ‘em I’m stuck.. as in finger-tied, don’t know what to say!!

Will just type type type with eyes closed (or something to that effect) and hope it works!! (well, i’ll edit it with eyes open ;))

i am currently applying (not so fast n furiously) but still applying to Egypt Almanac and Egypt Today. I was eyeing Salon.com but I really couldn’t find the apply button, and I don’t know if I fit the bill yet. Still have to apply to Travel Arabia Today

Any pointers for other places to apply for writing articles, stories, editing would be great. for now i’ll click on the google-powered (i guess) ads on the right side of this screen.