{"id":2179,"date":"2010-06-23T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2010-06-23T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:24:32","slug":"quick-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quick-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on things, since it&#8217;s been forever since I&#8217;ve blogged.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Valley Democrats offered me a position, but it wasn&#8217;t the internship they&#8217;d advertised, so I turned it down.\u00a0 They wanted me to do all their phone surveys, for 20 hours per week at $8.50 an hour, working evenings and Saturdays from now until November.\u00a0 Basically, they wanted me to do the same crappy job that I&#8217;m already doing, but for less pay, more hours, and with significantly less flexibility.\u00a0 Needless to say, I wasn&#8217;t too thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>I sent out <em>Mercenary Savior 3.0<\/em> to my beta readers.\u00a0 If you weren&#8217;t included in that list, don&#8217;t be offended&#8211;I&#8217;m trying to get feedback from some new people who haven&#8217;t read the previous drafts, to see what they think.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to start the next revision of that novel sometime in August; my goal is to have it polished in time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contextsf.org\/WFC\/\">World Fantasy 2010<\/a>, which I will be attending.<\/p>\n<p><em>Worlds Away from Home<\/em> is coming along, but much too slowly.\u00a0 I want to finish it by August 15th, which means that I should be writing between 2.5k and 3k words per day.\u00a0 Right now, I&#8217;m averaging about 1.5k&#8211;not bad, but not enough either.\u00a0 I need to take some time and immerse myself in this project.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I really need to find a decent day job.\u00a0 The one I&#8217;ve got right now is good for summer stuff, but I don&#8217;t want to be doing it long term.\u00a0 Ideas for a more semi-permanent job include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working in a bookstore<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Arabic<\/li>\n<li>Getting a wilderness job (see previous post)<\/li>\n<li>Getting an editing internship<\/li>\n<li>Freelance translating (I&#8217;m a little uneasy about this)<\/li>\n<li>Finding a job in the Middle East and living\/traveling there for a year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little wary of the last one, given the current political situation, but if things improve, I could see myself moving out there in the fall.\u00a0 It depends on what I can find, of course&#8211;and for that reason, I&#8217;m considering signing up for the TESOL certificate program here at BYU.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, though.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot to do, a lot to figure out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to balance it all, but I&#8217;m doing what I can.\u00a0 Whatever happens, though, I&#8217;m sure it will all work out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on things, since it&#8217;s been forever since I&#8217;ve blogged. The Utah Valley Democrats offered me a position, but it wasn&#8217;t the internship they&#8217;d advertised, so I turned it down.\u00a0 They wanted me to do all their phone surveys, for 20 hours per week at $8.50 an hour, working evenings and Saturdays&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quick-update-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quick update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,44],"tags":[89,82,42,30,147,142,149,387,599,312,397],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ds","tag-career-decisions","tag-conventions","tag-frustrations","tag-life-decisions","tag-momentum","tag-summer-plans","tag-the-middle-east","tag-the-real-world","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-work","tag-world-fantasy-2010","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}