Comments on: Yes, I Burned My Hand on the Stove http://shindotv.com/2010/02/12/stovebur/ welcome to shindo's world Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Big Baby Jesus http://shindotv.com/2010/02/12/stovebur/comment-page-1/#comment-1278 Big Baby Jesus Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:41:24 +0000 http://shindotv.com/?p=3397#comment-1278 Hi Shindo. I think we're in the same boat, having graduated from the same school with a slightly different emphasis (MA). I don't think that your experience is unique. There are many like us who are living through this bizzare experience (too much education and debt and zero opportunity). I believe there are more factors involved in this equation, some which you have overlooked. I would love to chat with you about this. E-mail me. Adios, BBJ Hi Shindo. I think we’re in the same boat, having graduated from the same school with a slightly different emphasis (MA). I don’t think that your experience is unique. There are many like us who are living through this bizzare experience (too much education and debt and zero opportunity). I believe there are more factors involved in this equation, some which you have overlooked. I would love to chat with you about this. E-mail me.

Adios,

BBJ

]]> By: ThePete http://shindotv.com/2010/02/12/stovebur/comment-page-1/#comment-1277 ThePete Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:23:18 +0000 http://shindotv.com/?p=3397#comment-1277 I hear you. But I burned my hand on the stove by *not* going to grad school. Unlike you, I hardly ever bump into writers in my life and when I do, I feel like they're rescuing me from a desert island. The other night, my wife and I had dinner with an actor/singer friend of hers and his wife, who just happened to be an editor and a *major* publisher. All I could do was bite my tongue the entire night to avoid blurting out "I HAVE TEN NOVELS! LET ME SHOW YOU THEM!!!" I was like a living LOLCat in my head. Somehow, by not going back to school, or by not staying in any way academic, I've accomplished a lot of writing, but have found myself fairly isolated from the business I want to be in. I hope to have more dinners with my wife's actor/singer friend and his wife, but my last paid gig as a writer was over ten years ago. It's gotten pretty lonely and I've basically forgotten how to network and have very few opportunities to do so. So, I think in the end, there are benefits and drawbacks to no matter what one chooses. I also think individual results may vary. Who knows how much worse or better it really could have been if you had skipped grad school? Now that you've bandaged up your hand, what's your plan now? .-= ThePete´s last blog ..<a href="http://life.thepete.com/post/384537467" rel="nofollow">The Lovely @Siskita (my wife) sings "Fifteen Pounds (Away from My Love)" in her 1-woman cabaret from 2007</a> =-. I hear you. But I burned my hand on the stove by *not* going to grad school. Unlike you, I hardly ever bump into writers in my life and when I do, I feel like they’re rescuing me from a desert island. The other night, my wife and I had dinner with an actor/singer friend of hers and his wife, who just happened to be an editor and a *major* publisher. All I could do was bite my tongue the entire night to avoid blurting out “I HAVE TEN NOVELS! LET ME SHOW YOU THEM!!!” I was like a living LOLCat in my head.

Somehow, by not going back to school, or by not staying in any way academic, I’ve accomplished a lot of writing, but have found myself fairly isolated from the business I want to be in. I hope to have more dinners with my wife’s actor/singer friend and his wife, but my last paid gig as a writer was over ten years ago. It’s gotten pretty lonely and I’ve basically forgotten how to network and have very few opportunities to do so.

So, I think in the end, there are benefits and drawbacks to no matter what one chooses. I also think individual results may vary. Who knows how much worse or better it really could have been if you had skipped grad school?

Now that you’ve bandaged up your hand, what’s your plan now?
ThePete´s last blog ..The Lovely @Siskita (my wife) sings "Fifteen Pounds (Away from My Love)" in her 1-woman cabaret from 2007 My ComLuv Profile

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