In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here.
What is your dream job?
Full time author. Although it is more than a dream, it’s a goal I am actively working towards. I will get there.
I’m currently in the editing stage of my fourth novel. Covid has thrown my writing schedule into complete disarray (hands up anyone who managed to home school and still get their work done…scans motionless room…yeah, me too).
All going well I will have the editing finished at the end of the month. Then I will send the manuscript to betas, make necessary changes and then into the query trenches.*
I don’t know if this books will be “the one” to land an agent. But if it isn’t this one, it will be the next, or the one after that, or the one after that.
One day I will be writing full time, and while I know the job has it’s ups and downs like any other job, I know that doing this job is the one I want to do.
What is your dream job? And are you doing it, or working towards it?
*assuming 2020 has finally had its last laugh and doesn’t hurl anything else our way
August 7, 2020 at 9:58 pm
I know you can do it, AJ. You’re writing is brilliant. Can’t wait to hold a book of yours in my hands one day soon. 😊
August 8, 2020 at 4:13 pm
<3 Thank you my friend.
August 7, 2020 at 10:15 pm
Oh I can’t wait for you to be a full-time writer!! You can totally do it and I hope that it is with this book!
I kind of feel like teaching is my dream job. Like I feel so at peace with it. Which is amazing! Because it doesn’t really feel too much like work. Especially when I get to teach my ducklings about religions and traditions around the world and I feel like I’m using my undergrad haha. I can’t imagine having anything else that makes me this happy.
August 8, 2020 at 4:16 pm
Aw, thanks, GF. Yup, I can totally see how happy you are teaching. Awesome you’re already doing your dream job!
August 8, 2020 at 12:21 am
I don’t know how parents did the home-teaching-working-relax thing. That sounds impossible. Makes me quite happy my kids have been launched.
August 8, 2020 at 4:17 pm
I don’t think any did. Something had to give, Jacqui. I’m still trying to catch up, and while 2020 is going so slowly I don’t feel I am getting ahead.
August 8, 2020 at 7:33 am
Slow and steady wins the race. Glad to hear you’re still plugging along. And seriously, slow and steady does do it. Look for tortoise and hare races on YouTube. They actually have them doing races, and the tortoise does actually win.
August 8, 2020 at 4:19 pm
I can’t wait to be able to say here that slow and steady has got here. It shouldn’t surprise me that people have tried hare and tortoise races. I will have to google (I might even report back here in a post next week).
August 8, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Aww thanks! I’m happy I’ve found something that I love so much as well. I felt the same way when I started being a nanny but that quickly ended after a few months LOL
August 11, 2020 at 8:38 am
I have the same dream job, and I’m also working toward it. More slowly this year, because of…well, 2020. Congratulations on your steady progress in spite of all obstacles, and I hope this ms is “the one” for you! And the first of many!
August 12, 2020 at 5:48 pm
We’ll get there, Jenny!!