really? i'm a biology student, in my fourth year at the universaty of Wageningen. A couple of my friends want to be Marine biologist. where do you work? and what education did you do?
cur.ve, I prioritized clips as #1, compensation as a #2 (and a distant one at that.) When I first started out, this meant writing for free. The best places to do that are smaller websites or tiny, local papers. And of course, I'm still mostly in the "starting out" phase myself. My income from writing is much less than my income from marketing, so I'm not yet ready to go freelance full-time. Now I'm leveraging my smaller-pub clips and am pitching men's magazines, largers papers, etc. It takes time. And it's frustrating. There's an excellent web community in New York called mediabistro.com . Check it out. They offer gobs of beginner freelance writing courses, "how to" articles, and message boards for encouragement. The class I took was terrific. Good luck, and feel free to e-mail me if you want to chat some more . . .
lol. Sorry, arno_ed, but it's a Seinfeld reference. Something that George said to impress a woman. In one of the most hysterical sequences in the show's history, the episode concludes with George on the beach, with the woman, called on to save a whale when someone shouts, "Is anyone here a marine biologist?!?!" (Oh. And you might want to check and make sure that you're friends aren't messing with you! )
I remember that one Altough i cannot believe anybody uses such a profession to impress a woman. Because they are not rich. ok to bad i didn't see it. My friends are dead serious about it. I laughed at them to. but they still like it.
I used to be a Music Ed Major at UH, but have since joined the IT ranks and am now a Network Tech at a school district. Who would've thunk it.
hey rasselas, yeah i just took a seminar from MB last week on travel writing and am considering taking an 8 weeks course - hear what you said about clips. i'm still doing marketing/consulting to have some sort of income but hoping to beef up on my writing to the point where i can write in different voices... I'll definitely email ya offline. thanks for the response!
Dude, that sounds so made up. Are you just one of those people that has to do everything at the company??
Actuary BS/MS/PhD Mathematics I work for a company which does investement consulting for large institutional clients. I help make the asset allocation decisions.
Developer of reading curricula Instructional designer for reading software, DVDs, and videos. I've also written several books of short stories and articles for older reading disabled kids and I've just finished a book on sounds and hearing for use in kids around 9-12 years old. It will come out this fall.
Got all the way through the Ph.D. and teach chemistry at a college... but not sure if that will last the rest of my life. It's been stressful and sometimes all your hard work counts for nothing when they ask too much of you. I don't even like the science part that much, but I knew I could do it and that it would pay the bills. Looking at the rest of your careers, though, looks like not too many people (except firecat) do something really interesting or exciting to pay the bills. They have to have some other job and then work on the interesting stuff whenever there's time. That's what I was afraid of. Looks like most of the jobs involve knowing a lot about computers.
Chemical Engineering B.S. Got out with no jobs available anywhere in the oil/gas industry (2003). I now do engineering for the space shuttle thermal protection system.
That is horribly sad, Isabel. It is good you completed the PhD, though, considering your heart wasn't fully in it. I guess that is to be expected on a an online bbs. So many people still don't really know how to use computers. Hell, compared to my wife I know nothing (she is a senior manager of software development for a major company).
After I graduated college with a degree in Information Systems I got a job in Network Support. I did that for about 3 years and then I decided on a career change. I always wanted to be a stockbroker growing up so I found a firm that would pay for my Series 7 and 66. I did that for about a year and realized that being a stockbroker was just a a fancy name for telemarketer. Also, I was working with a bunch of backstabing jerkoffs. Now I'm back in IT.
It may not sound that way to others, but I find my job extremely interesting. It's also pretty exciting to know that the work I do will have a positive impact on literally hundreds of thousands of kids.
