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fairytalearista · 2 years

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Putting in job applications when I (a) really don't want to give my time to a random employer when I have 20+ books for people to buy and provide me income and (b) have, in my experience, never gotten a job unless I knew someone in the company, even when I was spam applying to every company that looked likely is an underratedly insurmountable task. My brain just equates applications as useless, and I might as well spend that time working on my next book. (I have four up for preorder right now, and I don't want to miss those deadlines!)

I don't drive, I live about 30 minutes away from any proper job, I'm some flavor of neurodivergent, and my priority is always going to be my author career, and employers just don't want to deal with me. The fact that I held McDonald's down for five years probably will make me look better now than the two nine-month stints I did the last time I was putting in applications, but ... still. I also don't want a full time job, and I just need to boost my income by about $500-$800 a month.

I also keep running into walls with looking into online jobs 'cause my wifi is not the best and my attention span is pitiful. Transcription looked promising, but entry level gets left with the scraps, and it's not worth the effort. I'm going to try to upgrade my wifi tomorrow and get rid of my landline (last time I tried to get rid of my landline, I was told that they don't do no-landlines for my location, but I've been told otherwise last week, I'll just have to get a better wifi package), so that might not be an issue. But, it's still time that I could spend writing.

But I'm also hitting a wall of executive disfunction where I'm so worried about finances (and I'm almost at the end of my savings and tax return, and while April was a good month for sales, that spike has not maintained as well as I'd hoped. Seriously, who doesn't want to read Jane Austen and Fairy Tales at the same time???), that I'm just watching playing resource management sims and idle games because at least there I get the positive feedback of making money. It's a vicious cycle that just makes me and my loved ones more upset with me.

*sigh* I really don't know what to do. My one side gig has just opened another opportunity for me that I have taken, but I'm not sure yet how much more it will provide (though it is going to be a lot more reliable than hoping people schedule parties for me to host).

Anyone want a book? I have 20+ of them, as I've mentioned, and one will be releasing at the end of this month. I don't know which one it will be yet, because I have two contenders and the other will release next month (and it's probably going to be the opposite of what I've currently told Amazon.) I won't get paid for any sale made this month until the end of October, but it will still be helpful for November, and my royalties to be paid this month and next month are ... not terrible? They're triple digits, at least.

I'm gonna wander off and go write more of my Emma / Rapunzel retelling. The Frank Churchill character just showed up and I'm rolling into the downhill of the story, which shall be glorious.

#life #kendra e. ardnek #my poor brain #anyone want a book?#It doesn't help that I lost my ss card last year and I can't afford to replace it #Austen Fairy Tale

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