Wednesday, February 29, 2012

No wonder I feel grey!

It's a pretty grim situation out there.

I have a fallback plan - swim teaching!

Seriously - with TAFE student numbers falling, book sales for mid-list writers dropping, I - and others - may have to make serious career adjustments. I'm not good in hospitality - and anyway, I'm the wrong age to get good tips. I may as well utilise my teaching skills, spend some time with children (and, possibly, get ideas for stories) and get free gym membership as well!

It's Plan B.

4 comments:

Jo said...

Thanks for the link, Catty. As someone once wrote in The Australian Author, years ago, 'If you think mid-list sounds okay, remember the next step down is the bargain bin.'

Jo said...

Well, you've really cheered me up, not that on some gut level I didn't know this.

Cattyrox said...

Sorry Jo - but there must be an up-side? I'm already buying self-published e-books in the knitting community. So there will be opportunities, it's just a matter, surely, of finding them?

Cattyrox said...

Oh - and learning a dozen different things to do with lentils!