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Vulgar language. NSFW. You have been warned.
Lately, I have been running into a lot of people with a martyr complex, and it has been pissing the royal shit out of me. I've finally had it, so now I'm going to get it all off my chest.
I work for a living. No, I don't move boxes or do manual labor all day, but ask ANYONE who works a customer service job and they will agree. Yes, I may be sitting on my ASS for 8.5 hours every day, BUT IT IS STILL WORK!!!! I am still tired when I get home!
To top it off, I don't just sit and watch TV or play video games when I get home, or when I get up in the morning. I park my ass in front of my computer and start my SECOND JOB: published novelist. Now, contrary to popular belief (ie, anyone who doesn't write for a living and/or hasn't been published), this is not just sitting back, lighting a cigarette and having your muse give you deathless prose while you sip your beverage of choice.
I WISH!!!!
Writing is hard. Some nights, it's like pulling teeth from an enraged sabretoothed tiger while its mate chews on your leg. Not only that, but there's more to being a published writing than just writing your next book/short story/poem/screenplay.
There's selling said book/short story/poem/screenplay. There's editing said project. Most of the writers I know have more than one project. Some of use are editors as well, so we've got OTHER PEOPLE'S stuff to work on. There's marketing research, and keeping track of anything you've sent out, and anything you've sold, and money sent to your publisher (if you sell your own stuff, like I do, because you're with a small press).
This is ANOTHER FULL-TIME JOB!!!!
I personally can't afford a secretary. If someone wants to volunteer, email me.
SO
I don't have 35 hours a day to do things. I wish to hell I did. But I'm human, AND I'm dealing with a couple of chronic illnesses to boot. But I try not to use that as an excuse, and I'm cranky when others do. However, I cannot always get everything done that I want to. I do my damndest, but it doesn't always happen.
I try to look on the bright side of things. I try to see the best in people, and to excuse bad days and bad moods. But I HATE people who go "Oh, whatever. I knew you wouldn't do it" or "No one ever does it for me. I shouldn't have expected you to" and act the martyr.
GROW THE FUCK UP.
Okay, rant done. Anyone else want the soapbox?
Lately, I have been running into a lot of people with a martyr complex, and it has been pissing the royal shit out of me. I've finally had it, so now I'm going to get it all off my chest.
I work for a living. No, I don't move boxes or do manual labor all day, but ask ANYONE who works a customer service job and they will agree. Yes, I may be sitting on my ASS for 8.5 hours every day, BUT IT IS STILL WORK!!!! I am still tired when I get home!
To top it off, I don't just sit and watch TV or play video games when I get home, or when I get up in the morning. I park my ass in front of my computer and start my SECOND JOB: published novelist. Now, contrary to popular belief (ie, anyone who doesn't write for a living and/or hasn't been published), this is not just sitting back, lighting a cigarette and having your muse give you deathless prose while you sip your beverage of choice.
I WISH!!!!
Writing is hard. Some nights, it's like pulling teeth from an enraged sabretoothed tiger while its mate chews on your leg. Not only that, but there's more to being a published writing than just writing your next book/short story/poem/screenplay.
There's selling said book/short story/poem/screenplay. There's editing said project. Most of the writers I know have more than one project. Some of use are editors as well, so we've got OTHER PEOPLE'S stuff to work on. There's marketing research, and keeping track of anything you've sent out, and anything you've sold, and money sent to your publisher (if you sell your own stuff, like I do, because you're with a small press).
This is ANOTHER FULL-TIME JOB!!!!
I personally can't afford a secretary. If someone wants to volunteer, email me.
SO
I don't have 35 hours a day to do things. I wish to hell I did. But I'm human, AND I'm dealing with a couple of chronic illnesses to boot. But I try not to use that as an excuse, and I'm cranky when others do. However, I cannot always get everything done that I want to. I do my damndest, but it doesn't always happen.
I try to look on the bright side of things. I try to see the best in people, and to excuse bad days and bad moods. But I HATE people who go "Oh, whatever. I knew you wouldn't do it" or "No one ever does it for me. I shouldn't have expected you to" and act the martyr.
GROW THE FUCK UP.
Okay, rant done. Anyone else want the soapbox?
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Not to mention that half of the time when I talk to you you're working overtime- 10 and 12 hour days. And customer service is NOT easy.
These fuckers who are giving you a hard time should try sitting on that phone and getting chewed out/cussed at for 12 hours a day and then come back and talk to you.
And anyway, what right do they have to EXPECT anything of you anyway?? Even if you didn't do anything; if you were one of the idle rich and were just sitting around on your ass all day contemplating your navel lint, it STILL doesn't give them a right to demand anything of you.
Nothing gives people a right to expect anything of anybody. At least not in my world and my world is the only one that matters :)
*Hoogles Val* (can you tell I share your pain on this?)
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Onward into the fray!
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The other thought was the throwing axe, but the stars are easier to conceal... :D
Maybe I'll just do nasty things to them in my novel instead. Then everyone can know....
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I'll fill you in tomorrow.
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I'll help if I can...
Patty
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Hope things look up soon, though! :)
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Yes, anyone who hasn't tried CS and wants to get on someone's case about it needs to try CS first. It's nasty...
*hugs*
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Hopefully I'll be less pissy by tomorrow, when I have to work ANOTHER 12-hour shift.
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THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT ALTHOUGH YOU TALK TO A 100 FOLKS PER DAY LIKE THIS. IT'S NOT AIMED DIRECTLY AT YOU AND YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR PLIGHT. ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY TO BE HELPFULL AS MUCH AS YOUR JOB AND SANITY ALLOW.
CHEER UP! SPRING IS HERE.
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