Jobs Are Hard

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So even though I’m sending out a manuscript, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to instantly get a letter back saying “WE WANT YOU TO BECOME A FAMOUS AUTHOR AND WE’LL PAY YOU PILES OF CASH, WHICH INCLUDES GENEROUS ADVANCES ON ALL THE BOOKS YOU MAY WRITE IN THE FUTURE AS WELL. AND A GREAT MANY BACK PAYMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN THAT, WE ASSURE YOU.”

I mean, it’s not like I’m friggin’ Ursula Vernon here, people.

So I’m thinking I should hedge my bets and get moar job. I love the goddamn hell out of the Liberry, but they’ve got a hiring and hours freeze right now so I am not exactly going to rocket up in the ranks. Yet.

The thing is, I am trying to figure out if I should call up Maxwell P. Mormonator, III, of the Mormonator family that owns the Mormonator Bookstores,* and ask him if he’d be willing to give me some of the job he offered me a few months ago. (Hey, if it took him nine months to get back to me on my resume, I can take some time to get back to him, right?) Apparently he read my resume and said to himself, “She speaks conversational Swahili? This is the sort of person we need to work the cash register at our bookstore!”

Problem is, even though he told me that I could always call back when I decided I needed a job, I don’t actually believe him.** So I’m a little shy about calling or sending a letter or something and asking for a part-time job. Especially because somewhere in the back of my head I’m still convinced that I will get that Ursula Vernon-style windfall acceptance letter. But that is just my own idiotic brain getting all wishful on me, so we can safely ignore that. More immediate a problem is my epic, partially-innate and partially-medicated laziness, and I may just have to get over that.

So aside from my own balking, what do y’all think? Should I write to Maxwell and ask him if he has half a job or so for a library aide with an “eye-catching” resume? Think he’ll remember me?


*Names changed to protect the aggressively Mormon. At least I’m not going for Deseret Book—the Mormonators have pretty cool books in their stores.

**This is also true of friends, relatives, enemies, etc. who want me to keep in touch. After a while I assume they'd just groan if I sent them a message, despite the fact that I myself am thrilled to get messages from, say, long-lost elementary school buddies.

Comments

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

If I were a publisher, I would totally send you that acceptance letter. Because your writing rocks that much. But even so, you'd probably still need a day job. I know very few writers who can afford to write for a living.

I wish you the bestest of luck with all of it!