Here I go, kicking and screaming into the 21st century! Had no idea how far I was lagging behind until I looked online for jobs. Tons of jobs out there writing content for various blogs, but you have to know HOW to blog, have Skype, yada, yada, yada. I was never much of a talker, though these days I will talk your ear off given half a chance. Something about the reduced human contact of being a stay-at-home mom. You recognize a similar desperate need for contact in other moms. Please!! I need adult conversation!!!
More than conversation right now, I need to work. I need to earn money, I need to use my brain, I need to contribute. I am elated to have finally made a career decision, after a decade of hemming and hawing about what to do when I grew up....I mean, when my kids grew up. After my friend Alicia gently persuaded me that I would end up in jail or the looney bin if I went into teaching, and after realizing that I am NOT a naturally talented artist, it will require a LOT more work, and after getting so frustrated with simple Photoshop attempts that I almost threw my laptop across the room, I've settled on the only thing I've ever done with ease, writing.
Because writing has always come easily to me, I thought it was that way for everyone. I just....write. Words come together, they make sense, people say "you should write for a living". What? Who would pay me to WRITE?? Apparently, lots of people. Our fabulous public education system, in their effort to make everyone feel wonderful about themselves, isn't teaching basic grammar and spelling. When I see - IN PRINT - mistakes like the proper choice of you're and your, and to, too, two and there and their and they're, it makes me crazy. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer folks around who know the difference, so I feel compelled to volunteer my services to the writing community, to be one of the few, the proud, the grammatically correct!
So here's my first ever blog post. I'm sure only my friends, for whom it will be required reading, will respond, but we're taking baby steps here! Today a blog, tomorrow Skype. Pictures. Scary. Maybe I'll wait until after I see Dana next week.....
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Being a product of the above mentioned "public school system" or rather in my case whomever/whatever offered the most entertainment value at the time(usually not the school system}. I'd like to state for the record that I have barely a working grasp of the proper utilization of these things we call words. I also tend to lack the ability to care, but that's a different story altogether.
ReplyDeleteWith my lack of knowledge in consideration. I'd like to add that even I find myself shocked at the inability of a seemingly endless supply of moron's typing out their (was that the right one?) complete lack of ability to even come close to coherent sentences not to mention the constant slide into texting type. Something I like to call Electronic Ebonics. With that said I'd like to recommend a mandatory usage of Firefox with it's built in spell checker for anyone that thinks "I ben tinkn bout wut u sayd n u b rite cuz u my biatch" is the proper way to get any message across.
Just a tawt.