Earlier this week
While on an enforced go slow, trying to upload material to a website at the same point that the network was having one of its seemingly hourly palpitations, I was having a "what if" moment, wondering what would have happened if I had kept with a Features Editor job at a Hifi magazine I had in 2009. It was part time and as such I had left it when full time work had come up. This had come to nothing, I was let go at the end of June and subsequently I took the current job, a six month stint maintaining a company website (or trying to in the face of constant network and provider disruption). I still freelance for the magazine but that part time role I walked out of weighed heavy.

With a timing that even Hollywood have abandoned as a bit contrived, it was my recent beautiful moment that the Editor of said magazine phoned me to float the possibility of a full time writer position literally as I was thinking this. It isn't a done deal but I'm going down there in two weeks to talk it over with them and slightest thought that it might happen was a hell of a lift at that point. Still is to be honest.

Length? Permanent trumps contract every time.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 11:41, Reply)