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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2007-04-18 03:14 pm

BAM! in la vie de TKP

Wow, that was really surreal.

I just got fired from my job. Like, two minutes ago, I was told, starting tomorrow, no more job. It was a PRN job which I guess means they used me on an "as needed" basis, which I guess means they can fire me with no warning? Or can you always fire someone without warning? A bunch of other people are getting shafted with Whatever Is Happening too; a bunch of the OR techs were just told they would only need to be there during actual surgery, which means they only need to be there for several hours a week, and some basically don't need to be there any more at all. But it's weird; it's confusing, and everybody except me is really sad but they're not acting that way.

I am not actually sad because this was a very temporary job that I was afraid I was going to get myself stuck in because I was too lazy to do anything about it. But now I'm going to be back in the flaily I-don't-know-what-to-do mode, the one where I know an English major can get jobs that pay, but I don't want to do anything except write, get published, be a big movie director, tango in Argentina with [livejournal.com profile] seraphcelene, open a bakery with my friend, be a big time editor, be a professor, study in India, start a cultural renaissance with my brother and s-i-l, live with nuns in the Alps, ride elephants in Malaysia, get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy, be in a poet/author circle like the Beats or the Romantics or something, make a POTO movie with [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga, establish my Universal Theory Of Fiction, touch people's lives, and eat ice cream.

[identity profile] marenfic.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow-- I'm sorry. Not because you were in love with what you were doing, but because stability is always nice even if you don't plan to plant roots.

Though if you're taking votes on your life path, I like the "get a cabin in a woods somewhere and be creepy", paired with the whole writing and publishing thing.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Lee said she would help me with that one so I'm stealing her away from you kthx.

Yeah, the cabin in the woods thing is really for when I have to write the One thing that will change my life forever. Or possibly for when I decide to quit humanity in general and write fanfic forever. Haven't decided. Maybe I *will* take votes.

Thanks so much.