In Other Words

Money

Yesterday I was informed by my boss that the person who was doing VOIP in his company handed in his resignation this week, meaning that, by default, my job has been made redundant for the moment. I can’t sell a product that the company no longer has, right? Does that mean the end of my job? That is not yet clear, bot for the moment it has been put on hold, meaning I’ll have to do some serious searching (be it either in soul or world) about what’s next.

Banana Super Hero Girl did not react too well to the news. Not that she screamed, or scratched or did anything else offensive towards me (after all, it wasn’t my fault) instead she just sort of, well, deflated. Her mood went on a steady decline and her spirit to a low point. Poor girl is having a tough time of it right now.

Fortunately we managed to arrest this slide this morning with a good talk about how she was doing and how we were doing. The second question is the more interesting one for this article, because we aren’t actually doing all that badly. We’re getting on top of things (even if it is a bit slow) and getting our problems under control. We have more spending money then we did a few months ago and, though the excitement of a new place is wearing off a bit, things are still good. That managed to perk her up a bit. After that we vigorously cleaned the house and that put us both back on track.

So now we’re sitting in a netcafe, typing away and planning. What we’re planning, we’re not quite sure of, but it involves either finding a way for Banana to work here or elsewhere. Of course right now she is working (typing out the book), though admittedly that is only short-term work. First things first though, I need a job.

So I’ve decided to ramp up my attempts at selling my short story and will be scouring the Internet for publishers and information about that. I have recently come to the conclusion that my most marketable skill is my creativity and my ability to write. That is, therefore, what I need to work my pants off doing. Creating creative stories and then writing them down.

The responses I’ve got so far to my short story have been very positive and I would start sending it off to publishers straight away, if I wasn’t afraid of them nicking the thing and laughing in my face (always a frightening prospect). On that note, Patricea I’ll be sending you an updated copy right after I’ve put this post up (and after updating it, of course).

If I do manage to get a book deal out of somebody somewhere then we’ll probably be leaving Australia. Beautiful country, but the government is way too obstructive for us. To anybody planning to move to Australia, make sure you have everything sorted out before you get here, because sorting things out over here is nigh on impossible (and very expensive).

On a side note and in response to Nighty Knight of Tentacles, no blogging is not a popularity contest. Popularity is, on the other hand, useful for advertising purposes. (this one is courtesy of Patricea who has it on her blog). Google is willing to pay us for advertising done via our blogs and every little bit of extra income is attractive, right? Every click on one of their ads makes us a little bit of money and though I accept that that will probably not be too much, every little bit helps.

Just thought I would share that with everybody (though I’m sure most of you already knew about it), so that everybody can potentially benefit from this source of revenue.

posted by Symbol @ 23.4.05