FWIW, I have some ideas of what might give me some more autonomy, even if not all that I might want: finding a really small organization instead of working for a Giant State Bureaucracy, and/or find a way to move back into event planning, which could be tricky schedule-wise with a child but possibly doable as long as DH's schedule stays fairly predictable.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Susan W. - Apr 01, 2008 5:27:03 pm PDT #2797 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Burrell - Apr 01, 2008 5:38:06 pm PDT #2798 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
And even if you do have a career about which people have a clear-cut impression, ie. being a nurse, their impression is so unbelievably misguided and wrong that to explain the mistakes would take you days.
Kristin kinda already said it, but yeah, there are some jobs where the stereotypes tend to overshadow the job, and nursing is one of them.
Amy - Apr 01, 2008 5:41:00 pm PDT #2799 of 10001
Because books.
So is writing, for what that's worth. No, I'm not a millionaire. No, I'm not going on Oprah. No, I can't tell you where I get my ideas, except it's not from the Magical Idea Well.
Burrell - Apr 01, 2008 5:43:51 pm PDT #2800 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
amych - Apr 01, 2008 5:44:21 pm PDT #2801 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Crap. They're not?
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2008 5:47:34 pm PDT #2802 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
Crap. Then what are those tiny creatures who tell me they're magical writing fairies?
Atropa - Apr 01, 2008 5:48:35 pm PDT #2803 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
But I've been leaving scones and tea out for them! You mean I have to write my manuscript by myself?
Amy - Apr 01, 2008 5:50:32 pm PDT #2804 of 10001
Because books.
Oh, *I* have magical writing fairies. But, you know, they don't live in a well.
Seriously.
Cass - Apr 01, 2008 5:52:10 pm PDT #2805 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.This is a huge disappointment to me.
Trudy Booth - Apr 01, 2008 5:53:14 pm PDT #2806 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Next you'll tell me there was no Summer of Like.