The Blob

1. I decided I wanted to be a freelance writer.


2. I put out my CV into the world.


3. I received a job offer as a contracted writer in the education sector, which I had to turn down because of the hella long notice period required of teachers.


4. I handed in my notice.


5. I thought, off-hand, about looking for teaching jobs abroad.


6. I looked at teaching jobs abroad.


7. I applied for a bunch (literally, like, 100).


8. I signed up for 10 agencies.


9. I was offered two jobs, and rejected both as unsuitable.


10. I signed up for one more agency.


11. I got a job in Fujairah, that starts in August.

1. July 2015
   
   • Finish manuscript.
   
   
2. August 2015
   
   • Pitch for freelance opportunities. This is the litmus test.
     
   • Apply for mortgage.
   
   
3. September 2015
   
   • Edit manuscript. Test on guinea pigs.
     
   • Happy birthday to me!
   
   
4. October 2015
   
   • Find an agent.
     
   • Start second novel.
     
   • Continue to find new freelancing opportunities.
   
   
5. November 2015
   
   • Buy a house.
     
   • If successful, start sole trader company.
   
   
6. December 2015
   
   • Enjoy Christmas.
     
   • Finish second novel.
   
   
7. January 2016
   
   • Edit novel. Test on guinea pigs.
   
   
8. February 2016
   
   • Submit second novel to agent.
   
   
9. March 2016
   
   • Continue to find new freelancing opportunities.
     
   • Start script writing.
   
   
10. April 2016
    
    • Tax returns!
    
    
11. May 2016
    
    • Hand in notice/ask for reduced hours.
    
    
12. June 2016
    
    • Continue to find new freelancing opportunities.
    
    
13. July 2016
    
    • Finish script.
      
    • Last day?
    
    

1. Got a temporary job at the school at which I was training.
   
2. Moved into a tiny bedsit in Hartlepool.
   
3. Quit my Pub job.
   
4. Still with Boyfriend. ♥♥♥
   
5. Inducted at new school, where I met my form class. ♥
   
6. Found a new place in Bedford to live in for the next year - and it's furnished!.
   
7. Temporary job drawing to a close soon.
   
8. Still in debt, despite wonderful teacher pay cheque, but I can see the light at the end of this particular tunnel.
   
9. Realised I hadn't updated my Future Self on shit going on in life, and then wrote this post.

Lovely manager at pub has taken more than an hour to cash up. And he's still doing it wrong. I want to go to sleeeeeep.

Went to a fab fancy dress party last night. I was a mummy, in tea-dyed bedsheet bandages. Got a couple of numbers for my efforts too, so whoop!

Tomorrow is the first day back after half term. Am slightly kakking it, I confess. No lesson plans, no scheme of work, no organised PGCE folders, no QTS tests booked. I fail utterly at being a responsible adult.

Speaking of: Boy from a few months ago has been sending me long pleading emails. I realise this is my fault because I never broke it off with him, I just left him hanging with no explanation. I feel really bad about that. But a part of me is grateful that he's getting the message and I sort of dodged the bullet, because he would have been an incredibly close, devoted, clinging boyfriend.

Much preferring the fab life alone.

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If I had been less disciplined, if I had read one more fic instead of walking to work, it would've rained before I left and I'd have taken the car. Now I'm looking at 6 hours in wet underwear. Bah.

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