I'm an 'academic'
Feels sort of strange describing myself like that, but for the last year teaching in the English department of a university has paid the bills.

I used to just write freelance, but to be honest it's almost impossible to eat and be freelance unless you've a journalism career behind you.
So teaching it is.

And you know what?

It's my perfect job.
I love the fact that I get to spend hours every week going on about how fantastic this book or poem is and how much hard work it is to write a novel. I love that I'm required to keep on learning stuff myself. I love that I need to keep on getting things published to justify my employment.

And I hope that soon I get taken on permanently. That's the only fly in the ointment - I'm sessional.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 17:54, Reply)