I know this is a typo, but “it’s funny because it’s true.”
I have never found anything on mediabistro; I’ve only been able to get jobs through friends or the NYTimes. I have a second and third interview next week at that other magazine, but there are so many red flags:
• I’d be their fourth copy chief in a year
• They won’t let me talk to the current copy chief
• It’s kinda a crap magazine
• Hours would be longer, work would be harder
• A friend who works there tells me the boss is “nuts”
But can I afford to turn down a job when mine is obviously coming to and end?
I’d whisk you away to my English country manor, where you could live as a countess. But since I don’t have a country manor I’ll just wish you well instead.
Get student loans out the wazoo. The highest the interest can legally get is 8.5% on Federal loans and currently it’s lower than that; I pay just over $100 per month for the $20,000 I borrowed my last few years, and in some SLIS programs it only takes a year. Put some stuff in storage, sublet your apartment and take a dorm if you have to, but you’ll never regret the MLS as a fallback.
Noooo! I have friends in their forties who are still paying off their college loans! I’ve never owed anyone a cent in my life, and I’m not going into debt now.
Done, and done (don’t get too excited, folks—Zebra has a list of possible job openings, not an offer. But still awfully sweet of him, and I will pore over it with my readin’ specs!)
And if you just keep moving it’s not like they can find you.
Seriously, education and houses are the two things worth going into debt for as they will provide more wealth/income than they detract. It’s an investment, not a *I’ll give you a pound of flesh… * liposuction type thing.
Of course personally I think your memoirs would be funny and cool enough to fetch a high five figure advance and garner you a reputation that would put you on Bill Maher whenever you wanted to go and get you $30,000 speakers fees- I mean, you connect Olivia de Havilland to John Waters to Theda Bara to Quentin Crisp to the whole GLBT Movement for Odin’s sake, but… ain’t nobody axed me… so I’ll just be over here playing with my toy duck… all alone… neglected… i’m gonna set the set the message board on fire… swingline stapler
