Yes INDEED you are mean, especially when I note that you have not in fact answered my question to you, outsourcing it to your lady does not count. PAH. But because I am lovely I will answer anyway, even though it is SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET.
In short, the current plan (while always subject to change) is to come back next year around September, and (if they'll have me) either enrol on this or this. It may seem like a bit of a decision out of left-field, but it's actually a career that's been in the back of my mind since I was at school, and the main reason I've never pursued it is because of my rampant and unattractive ego, which has sought out higher-status roles. Over the past year or so I've come to realise that it's a career that ticks more and more of my requirements, in that:
- it's a job that I (think I) would really enjoy, find challenging and rewarding, and I could work with a group (refugees and asylum seekers) that I reallyreally want to work with; - I can do it in Glasgow, be with Tom, put down roots, actually settle in one city for the foreseeable future (I <3 Glasgow SO MUCH); - there are (or seem to be) opportunities for short-term (2 - 4 month) overseas postings, which would be fantastic; - it's a job that can be combined pretty well with being a semi-successful writer (i.e. successful enough that I want to work at it, but not sufficiently successful that I can earn a living from it), in that it'd be possible to work part-time, and/or dip out of it for a year or so if required without ballsing everything up completely; - and it would be A Profession, and moreover, a profession that is always in demand - there are always ads for locums, who earn £20 - £30 an hour, and YES PLEASE. I admit that I am a bit scarred from my 2008-09 stint of unemployment during an economic crash, the absolute horror of looking through job ad after job ad and finding nothing I was even close to being qualified for, knowing that when those elusive jobs DID pop up they would be vastly oversubscribed and I'd be lucky even to be shortlisted (I think this may be a feeling you can empathise with - though of course you have been BRILLIANTLY SUCCESSFUL despite it all) - and I really really do not want to go back to that, ever.
So that is my plan! Of course it may well not happen; the courses may not take me, as they require an amount of practical experience which I only have in a non-UK context (they say that they will accept my experience, but I imagine if I am up against a strong field with a lot of UK experience I may get bumped), or they may not give me a bursary (without which I couldn't do the course), or some amazing job may come up out here that could be translated into a UK-based job, or I might sell my third novel for SQUILLIONS OF POUNDS and never have to work again. So we will see!
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Date: 2009-10-24 08:48 am (UTC)In short, the current plan (while always subject to change) is to come back next year around September, and (if they'll have me) either enrol on this or this. It may seem like a bit of a decision out of left-field, but it's actually a career that's been in the back of my mind since I was at school, and the main reason I've never pursued it is because of my rampant and unattractive ego, which has sought out higher-status roles. Over the past year or so I've come to realise that it's a career that ticks more and more of my requirements, in that:
- it's a job that I (think I) would really enjoy, find challenging and rewarding, and I could work with a group (refugees and asylum seekers) that I reallyreally want to work with;
- I can do it in Glasgow, be with Tom, put down roots, actually settle in one city for the foreseeable future (I <3 Glasgow SO MUCH);
- there are (or seem to be) opportunities for short-term (2 - 4 month) overseas postings, which would be fantastic;
- it's a job that can be combined pretty well with being a semi-successful writer (i.e. successful enough that I want to work at it, but not sufficiently successful that I can earn a living from it), in that it'd be possible to work part-time, and/or dip out of it for a year or so if required without ballsing everything up completely;
- and it would be A Profession, and moreover, a profession that is always in demand - there are always ads for locums, who earn £20 - £30 an hour, and YES PLEASE. I admit that I am a bit scarred from my 2008-09 stint of unemployment during an economic crash, the absolute horror of looking through job ad after job ad and finding nothing I was even close to being qualified for, knowing that when those elusive jobs DID pop up they would be vastly oversubscribed and I'd be lucky even to be shortlisted (I think this may be a feeling you can empathise with - though of course you have been BRILLIANTLY SUCCESSFUL despite it all) - and I really really do not want to go back to that, ever.
So that is my plan! Of course it may well not happen; the courses may not take me, as they require an amount of practical experience which I only have in a non-UK context (they say that they will accept my experience, but I imagine if I am up against a strong field with a lot of UK experience I may get bumped), or they may not give me a bursary (without which I couldn't do the course), or some amazing job may come up out here that could be translated into a UK-based job, or I might sell my third novel for SQUILLIONS OF POUNDS and never have to work again. So we will see!