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this is why i don’t get paid for this
By heather | November 7, 2007
I’m about to write my first ever insightful and thoughtful post. But first let’s start by mouthing off as usual…is anyone else secretly glad that the writers are on strike for the purely selfish reason being that maybe now, FINALLY, I can get caught up on my shows and clear out my DVR?
I am 2 weeks behind on Grey’s, 3 weeks behind on Heroes, 1 week on Housewives, I’ve only watched 2 Earl’s since the season started, I’ve got 3 episodes of The Office…if I sat down for 20 straight hours and did nothing but watch shows I might be able to get back on track. I wanted to start watching the Women’s Murder Club but I just can’t add another show. So the writer’s strike now seems like a little light at the end of my (admittedly warped values) tunnel.
I know…how evil of me to hope it goes on long enough to get caught up on shows for the purely selfish reason being that my OCD tendency decrees that I MUST WATCH EVERY SHOW in the queue. I am thinking of all those people who are going to be out of work, I really am, but remember I am also the kind of person who makes lists and writes down things I’ve already done, just so I can cross them off.
Last year, we had 16 episodes of Lost that we finally watched during summer hiatus because we just never found the time to watch it when it was actually on. And also we really want to switch from cable to FIOS but we can’t right now because we’d have to give up about 40 hours of shows we haven’t watched and then we’d never get back in the pop culture swing of things.
Now let’s do a split personality to prepare myself for ARK Sunday when I have to do something nice for a stranger courtesy of Miss.
With all of us who are trying to do NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo does anyone else see the irony that the writer’s strike started this month? How many of us would love to give up our day jobs and suits and get paid for writing?
I would happily stay home in my pjs if I could get paid for the crap insightful posts that I cough up here everyday. If you have a blog, you secretly wonder if you could get paid enough for doing it so that you wouldn’t have to be corporate anymore, that’s why we do crazy things like try to write a novel in a month. Some reptilian corner of your brain keeps posting on the off chance that someone important will stumble on your site and decide that they MUST PAY YOU to keep it coming. Right? Yeah.
Where was I? Oh - being nice. Let’s say that you were paid to be a writer on a show or movie. Can you imagine how heartbreaking it is to give up a job that you struggled so HARD to get? That you competed against so many other people to have?
I imagine lots of professions have that same sense of elation when you get a job doing what you always wanted to do - Rockette. Movie Star. Quarterback. Government Policy Analyst Weenie - har, har. But besides that fear that you’ll lose the job altogether, and that you won’t have money to feed yourself or your family what if you could no longer do something you really loved for a living?
To have that and lose it would make it so much more difficult. Wait I’m getting deja’vu…to have loved and lost is better than…damnit. So much for being insightful and fresh. I’m going back to tagging my 600 page policy document and the next post will be bitter. Promise.
(And also I haven’t written a word of my NaNoWriMo. Now it’s just mocking me - na-na-na-no-wrimo, na-na-na-no-wrimo!)
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