Pink Think: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
Recently, I had to haul something out of my files and dust it off. No, it wasn’t a novel manuscript. It was my resume, which has not been updated since 1995, when my oldest was born and I became a work-at-home-mom.
I’ve been a freelance writer since then, you see, occasionally writing articles here and there. Then last week, both my husband and his mother told me about the Deseret News, one of Utah’s leading papers, advertising for part-time correspondents outside the Wasatch Front.
I have been wanting to write for a bigger market, but still wanting to work from home, so I applied. It’s as close a dream job as I can find for this stage in my young family’s life. Well, that and published novelist, but that’s a different story. (Oh, and I really, really want to be one of those people that give out food samples at the grocery store!)
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While I was working on my resume, I realized that all through my professional life, I’ve worked as a writer in some form or another, mostly in journalism. It’s probably a no-brainer, since I was an English major, but it still was interesting to see that in writing. It’s official. Writing is what I do!
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Another thing that kept happening to me as I wrote my resume was my tendency to imagine that instead of a resume for a writing job, I was writing a Mommy Resume.
Education: trial and error, school of hard knocks
Experience: short-order cook, referee, chauffeur, laundromat operator, heart mender, dog-walker, confidante, nurse…
Awards: A great husband and three beautiful children, hugs and kisses
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I printed out my official resume and made copies of some clips the very next day. Just so I didn’t back out. This was a Very Scary Thing since I am a little rusty on this job-application thing. I dropped it in the mail before I could change my mind. A few days later, I got an email back from the paper.
The contact said that they hadn’t planned on hiring a correspondent in my county, but he liked the idea of someone local and would be very willing to consider me; how available am I?
I was tempted to say, any time!! Then I thought, how could I do more than one article a month, realistically? Because I want to keep writing fiction. So I said, once a month, but I am “open to more assignments as my schedule permits”.
I haven’t heard back yet, but I am crossing my fingers.
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What is YOUR dream job?
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