become a magazine editor

I just wrote this under the “43Things” goal. Thought I needed to mention it here.

One thing I have to mention is that I imagined my having the title of lifestyle/health editor for the Amsterdam News and it felt good inside. Those I’m hesitant to make a specific goal. I should ask an expert if this is okay. Afterall Kim Osario did it for the Source.

I’m now looking at mags from an “editorial point of view” meaning the sections, then looking at the mast head to see who might be in charge of the sections.

This morning (it’s Saturday) I got up wondering if I could write Heart and Soul’s “You First” section all by myself. They come out 6 times a year. That’s how good I want to get to be able to, if I had to write all of the stories for my lifestyle/health/parenting section myself.

Also I took all of the magazines I have here, old Essences, parenting mags etc. I put them all in a neat pile on the baker’s rack near my desk.

I’m going to ressurect t his goal. No I’m not. I’m going to leave this heere and then change the query goal so that it’s more specific.

Hmmmm…I’m seeing what the problem is here. After editing the magazine from home, I didn’t mind doing it. It’s working in the office, trying to coordinate time, that’s what has gotten me upset.

I’m going to work on working from home exclusively. Afterall I’m a CONSULTANT…further I’m a consultant who has not been paid!

See I’d be willing to do the pay me later, that’s not the issue, it’s the fact that I’m a free-lancer who has not gotten paid who has to “check in.”

Unless I am in an office everyday with a set schedule, I don’t want to work like this. As a “free-lancer” I want to be in charge of my own time and work on projects.

I’m going to do a Tarot Reading. I talked to my husband instead. I’ll do the reading later. The solution is that I ask for what I want.

Okay, I’m falling into my usual trap, I’m letting the people get to me. Not liking the mag editing gig. Not so much the work, but the people. I said I wanted a job where I could focus on the work and not the people, but I think with liberal arts jobs that might not be the case.

I’m also dealing with what I see as disrespect of my time and I have yet to be fully paid for he work I did in the fall. I’m about to do an invoice for the work I did in November.

Also I rush to make deadlines, and this has happened SEVERAL times already, and then NOTHING. I don’t hear anything. It’s been what like 3 weeks since I came close to meeting the 12/15 deadline and then NOTHING.

I was talking to my husband last night and he said that I had to try this gig out. It’s good that I didn’t say no as I would have wondered.

I was just asked to do more work for the magazine I editing. Two days a week and NO EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT on my part. I work and look for opporunities and don’t say no. That’s the key.

I’m going to put this same post “get part time job”

I did all of the editing for the parenting magazine. I chased stories, edited stories, tracked stories, re-wrote stories. Now the mag is in pre-press and I haven’t heard of anything.

I did research Scholastic Editors while I was going the magazine. Those postions didn’t appeal to me. I want to do parenting writing, not necessarily writing for children.

I’m putting this in the done for now folder. We’ll see what happens in the future.

I’ve been doing editorial coordinating for a mag for a week. I’ll write more on this later.

I think this would be a great job for me! I am a car guy and would love to write about them for a living! but have no idea how to go about it.

I’m giving this one up for now because I don’t see myself putting any effort toward this in the immediate future.

While I’m also not planning on living in a foreign country for the next decade, that goal does make me feel good when I read it. It makes me feel warm, fuzzy, tingly. Becoming a magazine editor does not.

However I do cotton to the idea of editing romance novels. Now THAT iS a rather fantastic goal that does make me feel good. I’m going to add this to my 43 things, which is down to 24 Things.

It’s a done deal. I declined the position. And I’m ok with that choice. Removing this from my list