hey not to be all corny but please understand and internalize that your creative work is vital and beautiful whether others see/hear it or not and that your creative expression enriches the world just by your having done it
Nationalize them. They're too important to leave in private hands
At this point, it’s clear the US airline industry is being held together by little more than expired wig glue, spit and demonic prayers.
Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation had opened an investigation into Delta’s ongoing response to Friday’s global tech outage.
I maintain the worst part about being a writer is having 72 part-time gigs, freelance assignments, adjunct appointments, et al and still being totally unable to convince your mom you're employed 💀
The school I work at just started summer vacation, and I keep feeling like I need to get a summer job, chase down another contract, and/or confirm that I have a job in September. 🫠 I have a feeling this residual anxiety is going to take a while to wear off.
So I quit both part-time jobs and kept my full-time job. I told my full-time job that I was quitting my part-time work to prioritize full-time. Huzzah!
I spent most of my twenties working 2 or 3 part-time jobs just to make a life. Just before I turned 30, I got my first full-time job in a K-8 school—and kept two part-time jobs. I worked 45-50 hours a week for six months and then I decided I just couldn’t do that much work. I was exhausted.
Thank you! I keep forgetting to post about my writing on here 😆
I published a ghost story two weeks ago, with @nocontactmag.bsky.social 👻
“The ASL interpreters have to lean forward with furrowed brows and outstretched hands. Still, we all do the best we can. We grin and bear it. “I think someone I know is dead,” I tell the ASL interpreter...” @rosshowalter.bsky.social | @nocontactmag.bsky.social www.nocontactmag.com/closing-time...
by Ross Showalter “I think someone I know is dead,” I tell the ASL interpreter after the shift ends, when we are about to go our separate ways for separate bus rides home. “We haven’t spoken in a w...
Luck is real and sometimes you're in the right place at the right time (and sometimes - more often, really - you're not). For every successful creative person there are dozens if not hundreds of creatives of equal or better competence who didn't get that one bit of luck.