Career Category
This category tracks my various job hunts, career angst, bill issues, and money woes over the year. If you’re interested in my career stuff, you might want to check out my portfolio.
Money problem is hopefully on
30
Nov
2000
In: Career
Money problem is hopefully on the verge of being solved: I went in for a job interview Tuesday (read about the job here) and absolutely ROCKED it. You know how you just sort of KNOW, after an interview? (watch me NOT get the job and then be like “Shit, I THOUGHT I knew. 
Anyway, the work is full time in Seattle, but they seemed to think it would be totally cool if I worked in Seattle three days a week, and at home two, which is cool. The pay would be great (I’m asking for $45k/year), and I would be a REAL EMPLOYEE, not a temp, not a contracter, not a freelancer, and I’d get great benefits…health, dental, 401k, a $150/season “wellness bonus” to pay for yoga classes, gym membership, etc. My fingers are crossed.
I’m ready to leave Lotus and just need something fulfilling to take its place….I told Ray and SDG this morning that if I got this job I would be leaving the magazine, and got NO reaction. No “Oh no!” No “Oh SHIT Ariel, REALLY?” No “Woah, that sucks, what will we do?” They were just like “When?”
I’m over it and ready to have a job that allows me to learn, get paid, and offer benefits.
Speaking of lack of appropriate response, when I called Dre immediately after the interview about how well it had gone, his response was less than enthusiastic: “Do you not like Olympia? Do you need to move? Are you unhappy? I don’t want us to not live together again…”
Wait, did you hear that? That was the sound of my bubble being popped. Wheeze.
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- Tags: job hunt, lotus magazine
You know, in my enjoyment
9
Nov
2000
In: Career
You know, in my enjoyment of being social and having a bedmate, I always seem to forget that my nights home alone are frequently my favorites. Last night I wrote six Amazon product reviews for the Kitchen/Housewares department (one hairdryer, two irons, three Dirt Devil hand vac things), sent two invoices, haggled through more Lotus stuff (God, feels like a neverending battle, sometimes), and watched West Wing (which wasn’t nearly as interesting as real life politics, this week).
Ever seen Sissy Fight? You’ll love it.
I have fallen in love with Nerve Magazine. Finally, some intelligent sex banter! Me thinks I must write something for them.
Reading the bios of the magazine’s staff was inspiring, daunting, impressive, and motivating. Of course the magazine is published in New York, like 85% of the nation’s rags, and of course most of the staff went to Ivy League East Coast colleges by Brown, Princeton, Duke, Exeter, etc, but one went to UC Santa Cruz.
Lotus seems to be at a big turning point, and there are moments when I wonder if that’s my cue to move on. It would be sort of a shame (just when I could finally get paid decent wages, I’d move on), but maybe it’s just a good opportunity to think about what I’m doing and where I’m going.
I still want to do this publishing course, but it seems strange to saturate myself in the Manhattan publishing world, when I’m just rediscovering my rural bliss in the woods. Maybe I just need to prepare myself. When I’m done in Olympia, where to next?
In the meantime, I’ve got a couple work leads in Seattle. Alan Pruzan, and old colleague at ENTROS just emailed asking me if I’d be interested in writing for them; and dear Courtney is working on getting me an interview at Real Networks as a music editor. Sigh. We’ll see what I can pull out of my ass this time. I always seem to be able to do it, somehow piecing together a decent career for myself, despite an inherent laziness and aptitude for working in my pajamas, so let’s hope my luck continues.
In other news, what a crazy freakin’ election. I really really was rooting (and voting) for Gore, but it looks like he may have been eeked out by a few hundred votes in Florida. Ug!
Money problem is hopefully on
30 Nov 2000 In: CareerMoney problem is hopefully on the verge of being solved: I went in for a job interview Tuesday (read about the job here) and absolutely ROCKED it. You know how you just sort of KNOW, after an interview? (watch me NOT get the job and then be like “Shit, I THOUGHT I knew. Anyway, the work is full time in Seattle, but they seemed to think it would be totally cool if I worked in Seattle three days a week, and at home two, which is cool. The pay would be great (I’m asking for $45k/year), and I would be a REAL EMPLOYEE, not a temp, not a contracter, not a freelancer, and I’d get great benefits…health, dental, 401k, a $150/season “wellness bonus” to pay for yoga classes, gym membership, etc. My fingers are crossed.
I’m ready to leave Lotus and just need something fulfilling to take its place….I told Ray and SDG this morning that if I got this job I would be leaving the magazine, and got NO reaction. No “Oh no!” No “Oh SHIT Ariel, REALLY?” No “Woah, that sucks, what will we do?” They were just like “When?”
I’m over it and ready to have a job that allows me to learn, get paid, and offer benefits.
Speaking of lack of appropriate response, when I called Dre immediately after the interview about how well it had gone, his response was less than enthusiastic: “Do you not like Olympia? Do you need to move? Are you unhappy? I don’t want us to not live together again…”
Wait, did you hear that? That was the sound of my bubble being popped. Wheeze.
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- Tags: job hunt, lotus magazine
You know, in my enjoyment
9 Nov 2000 In: CareerYou know, in my enjoyment of being social and having a bedmate, I always seem to forget that my nights home alone are frequently my favorites. Last night I wrote six Amazon product reviews for the Kitchen/Housewares department (one hairdryer, two irons, three Dirt Devil hand vac things), sent two invoices, haggled through more Lotus stuff (God, feels like a neverending battle, sometimes), and watched West Wing (which wasn’t nearly as interesting as real life politics, this week).
Ever seen Sissy Fight? You’ll love it.
I have fallen in love with Nerve Magazine. Finally, some intelligent sex banter! Me thinks I must write something for them.
Reading the bios of the magazine’s staff was inspiring, daunting, impressive, and motivating. Of course the magazine is published in New York, like 85% of the nation’s rags, and of course most of the staff went to Ivy League East Coast colleges by Brown, Princeton, Duke, Exeter, etc, but one went to UC Santa Cruz.
Lotus seems to be at a big turning point, and there are moments when I wonder if that’s my cue to move on. It would be sort of a shame (just when I could finally get paid decent wages, I’d move on), but maybe it’s just a good opportunity to think about what I’m doing and where I’m going.
I still want to do this publishing course, but it seems strange to saturate myself in the Manhattan publishing world, when I’m just rediscovering my rural bliss in the woods. Maybe I just need to prepare myself. When I’m done in Olympia, where to next?
In the meantime, I’ve got a couple work leads in Seattle. Alan Pruzan, and old colleague at ENTROS just emailed asking me if I’d be interested in writing for them; and dear Courtney is working on getting me an interview at Real Networks as a music editor. Sigh. We’ll see what I can pull out of my ass this time. I always seem to be able to do it, somehow piecing together a decent career for myself, despite an inherent laziness and aptitude for working in my pajamas, so let’s hope my luck continues.
In other news, what a crazy freakin’ election. I really really was rooting (and voting) for Gore, but it looks like he may have been eeked out by a few hundred votes in Florida. Ug!
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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