Ask me anything, and I'll help you find your way

[balsamandash]

Meme time again I guess? Stolen from a couple of people, because why not.

The problem with LJ/DW: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your journal and find out what people don't know about you.

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[balsamandash]

Whoo! I think I meant to ask at some point if that was on purpose (largely because most of your journal IS locked), and then I... failed at communication. But yay for access!

It is... going. I've done some editing work the last few months which was awesome, but it was for a friend so not so much something I had to go looking out of my way for, and I've not much Tarot at all recently. I have a steady job with my mother (who's an author/teacher online) taking care of her email/social media/assorted other things, which is most of what I've been doing lately.

My strategy for finding gigs right now is "finally kick my ass in gear and update sites and then ask more well-connected friends to share links around". XD But honestly, I have not managed to find a rhythm or a way of getting things to work yet, which is very much on me. Last year was a series of nonstop minor disasters and this year has been a lot of helping my family get ready to move so far, and my brain is having a lot of trouble settling into getting anything done when I have some spare time, and I'm not so good at wrestling it into working right. I'm working on it, though! Just... slowly.

[summerstorm]

Definitely a mistake - I do sometimes add people just to read them, but for the most part I want to interact with them both ways, so if they add me back I'll give access. Especially back before December when 99% of my posts WERE locked.

Yeah, I feel you on that. It's good that you have something secure and steady, though. I know how to find blog gigs, mostly; I know how to pitch at least, and in my experience, posting consistently means people will contact me (though they're not always the kind of offers I take). But I've been slacking so bad. And with design and photography, like -- I could probably find design clients if I put more effort into it, update my portfolio for one thing, promote myself more, but I keep thinking back to bad experiences and I realized yesterday that I need to also rehaul my offerings and stop being so 'catch-all' because it's not working for me, either in terms of getting hired or of enjoying the process.

And with photography I live in the middle of nowhere but I could at LEAST get a portfolio up and advertise myself as a traveling photographer while I live here. Some people do it! But that means getting the portfolio up... which means going through so, so, soooooo many pictures I've failed to edit over the past couple of years.