Childhood AmbitionsHoratioFellatio writes:
"At the tender age of 13, my little hairless clockweights squirted their first dose of testosterone into my blood stream. The result was a mental alarm clock shouting, 'I NEED TO LOOK AT GIRL'S FANNIES.' I reasoned that if I became a Gynaecologist, I'd get to look at fannies all day.
"It was only when I reached the age of about 16 and learnt about STD's and yeast infections that I realised I'd only ever get to see diseased ones."
Tell us about your childhood career ambitions and the moment at which your aspirations crumbled into a pile of broken dreams.
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chthonic, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 12:02)
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Okay b3tans, help me out hereOne of my childhood ambitions was to be a writer. I currently work at a publishing company that produces magazines for the classical music world (classical music is another major passion of mine, and writing about it would be very squiffy). Unfortunately, I work in the advertising department. This means that I get paid very well, but the work is buttock-clenchingly dull and rather stressful, and the editors assume that I'm a complete retard so won't give me any freelance work.
I have recently been invited to apply for another position as an editor. Perfect, you might think. But this is an editorial position on a sort of Yellow Pages type of publication, so it's basically just data entry. And it pays peanuts.
I can afford the pay cut. And I'd quite like to have the word "Editor" on my CV. But it's a crap job and there's no absolute guarantee of career progression. I'm paranoid that selling advertising space is the only halfway decent job I'll ever be able to get and that I should just stick with it. What do you think? Click "I Like This" if you think I should take the cruddy yet impressive-sounding editing job...
(, Sun 1 Apr 2007, 18:09, Reply)
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