Comments on: Alternative Career Options for Burned-Out Writers

By: I’m Only Going to Grad School Because I Don’t Want a Real Job » laurganism.com > I Flail at Life [blogging since 1996]

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:54:50 +0000

[...] While waiting for my professor to show up, the impracticality of what I’m doing with my life suddenly hit me full-force. Despite occasional bouts of working class angst, I’ve grown rather fond of my blue and white cubicle of mouselike proportions. Sure, I spend a good chunk of my time at work dicking around Facebook and thinking about all the things I’d rather be doing instead of writing articles on androgenetic alopecia. (Which is not to say that I never got any work done. Even with all the time I waste destroying kingdoms in Warbook, my PM told me that I’m one of the strongest writers in the team. Huzzah!) Incidences of sexual harassment and minor food poisoning aside, the office was safe. The office was predictable. The office had free internet. The office gave me money. [...]

By: Janette Toral

Janette Toral — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:29:16 +0000

If you publish a book that has some of your best posts (which makes almost all of them), I think you will be a big hit.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:18:44 +0000

Felt the exact same way about a year ago, and I was more mature with a brain used to compartmentalizing. Try writing with just enough ounce of brain matter and practice using your fingers more than your mind. It’s hard to explain but I managed to skip on coffee and almost doze my way through 4,000 words. By then, I was spending more time looking for jobs at jobstreet, etc. than actually working.

By: germaine

germaine — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:00:56 +0000

One of my co-workers used to be a life coach. And he also happens to be a social failure. His whole team at work can’t even stand talking to him. Since you are many times more interesting and more socially-able than he is, I think you could make a pretty credible life coach.

By: Ade

Ade — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:02:56 +0000

Well, take comfort in the fact that even completely burned out on writing, you still churn up better blog posts than 99% of the internet.

I have to agree to this. I was laughing my head out the whole time I was reading this.

By: Derek Houck

Derek Houck — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:50:44 +0000

Well, take comfort in the fact that even completely burned out on writing, you still churn up better blog posts than 99% of the internet. Dryer than an 80-year-old woman’s vagina? Classic (and classy) shit.

Remember, you’re not writing three thousand words a day to unleash your muse, you’re writing three thousand words a day because you need money. It’s a day job to provide you with security so that one day you can go pursue writing about what you really want to write about. Don’t let your day job ruin your dreams.

By: mia

mia — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:42:25 +0000

Mail order brides are usually for lonely white men in their upper middle class social strata…the only designer stuff you’ll get will be in the discount bins of their ukays.

*hugs* Find a hobby that doesn’t necessarily need writing, maybe? When you’re bored with writing, take photographs, paint or something. That usually works. :3