Unexpectedly and with incredibly short notice I was interviewed for another job at the same place I work now. I wouldn’t say that it went well, but it went. It was one of those interviews where the interviewer does most of the talking, in this case approaching 99% of total words spoken, and only asks a few questions which are either of the yes/no category, or difficult to answer in 5 words or more. More on that when I hear.
Other developments:
1) I haven’t been reading or writing or even drawing much at all anymore, now that I’m working such odd hours. You need to work on this, Douglas.
2) This blog is incredibly unfocused. I can do one of two things: a) reconfigure, reedit/delete old posts, draft some kind of informal mission statement to which I should adhere when posting–something like “To document my progress in becoming a published writer”–all this other shit about jobs and feeling sorry for myself is really not helping, nor is it interesting in the least; or b) leave it the way it is and stop caring that nobody reads it. That was, by the way, the point. The point of a) would be to actually try to actively cultivate some sort of readership, however insignificant.
3) Some people really don’t understand the concept of blogging. There are so many blogs out there that could just as easily be a static website. A blog about “how to transfer your vinyl collection to mp3 files” shouldn’t be a blog at all. There are no new developments in this area. If you were to graph a “how-to” site across the time axis it should be a dot, not a line. Please, world, stop blogging. Or at least try harder.
4) “Make Money Online” blogs are even worse. The biggest money-making blogs about making money only make money because they are popular, not because they give good advice. Following their advice will not necessarily make you money, unless of course you run a wildly popular “Make Money Online” blog. It’s all tautological nonsense–these blogs have no reason to exist. Unfortunately there are THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of them.
5) Yes, I understand the irony of criticizing bloggers for blogging, using my own blog as a platform for leveling that criticism. I don’t give shit.
In accordance with item 2a this post may disappear, so savor it while you can.
UPDATE: I just deleted about a third of my old posts, the ones where I was crying into my sleeve about how hard it is to be me. In any case, I think I’ll leave this one, it seems as a good a mission statement as any.
