The readers do the writing

Post number 3, by Shanti.

I still have no idea, where or what I want to be in 2 years.

Why 2 years? Because in 2 years I get my Bsc. After that I should start working, become independent and focus on a career and family. It seems so far off, but I know it’s so near.  It’s scary.

I have no idea what I want to do. Yes, I have chosen my courses, but I still have no clue what i want to do and what career path I should or want to take. I’m not even sure if what I’m studying is for me. I used to love it, and I used to be so sure, but now not so much.

I miss that.

Right now all I feel is inadequacy, there is nothing I’m really good at and nothing I want to be good at. I have no natural talents and practically no drive. I’m the kind of person who sits back and lets the world pass her by.

But I can’t any longer. I need to make a choice, I need to start living my life.

I need to step out of this stupor. I know I will.

Just give me a sec,

any minute now…

Post number two comes courtesy of That Grrl.

I noticed a very drastic split end in my hair this morning. I don’t think this post is going to move much uphill from that.

I have 20 minutes to get dressed and get on my way to work. I’m tech support- I listen to bitching for 9 hours a day. Once in awhile I even fix someone’s cable. The ironic thing is that all those jokes about telling someone to press the ‘on’ button are not an urban myth. 

When I figure out the best way to quit this job I will never do customer service again. I’ve put in my time, countless years at one place or another. It’s no fun being the 40-something when most of the others in the same job are 20-something. 

Not that I am career focused. Likely that’s why I’m endlessly going through dead end jobs. I don’t mind, as long as I can keep things paid and don’t have to answer my phone once I’m home. The most enjoyable job I had was managing a subscriber mailing list for a huge company with business and professional magazines. I don’t know what I liked about that so much. The work wasn’t exciting or very interesting. It was plain and I guess when I came to the end of the day I felt I had done something. No one called me up just to bitch and call me things I can’t type here. 

In eight months of working as tech support I have had three callers (all men) who did not call for help with cable. They just wanted to be anonymous and degrade someone. Stupid… I have call display. I wrote the note on your account, you aren’t fooling anyone. 

Time is drawing to a close. Nearly noon here and I start my 9 hours of hell in half an hour. Being late is ok with me. But I don’t want to be too late. Missing a couple of minutes won’t get me in trouble but feels heavenly to avoid the callers for even that bit longer.

Our first post, courtesy of Valerie

Ok, I’ll play, because it’s an interesting idea, and surely if my post gets posted it will probably be fairly conservative compared to what some people might post on a free for all blog.

I’ll just give a little bit about me then, I’m just a girl, addicted to blogging (thus my inability to refrain from posting here when invited!), trying to sell her house in New York and move someplace more …appealing! (selling a house is HELL!!!)

I am at work, the weather is beautiful outside which is making work even more unpleasant (if that’s possible!), and I came across this blog post using blogosphere on my own blog (which I never ever see *my* posts show up on, but I digress!).

I enjoy checking out other people’s blogs, because you get little glimpses into the lives of others, almost like driving through a neighborhood at night and being able to see in people’s living room windows to see a small slice of their life. No, I am not a stalker or a Peeping Tom! lol It’s all gentle curiosity and just getting a feel for the world around me.

Has this been a lot of run on sentences? It’s very hard to see in this little box. lol

Anyhow, to the blog owner, I hope that this experiment is successful for you! I am curious to see what transpires and I will be back to have a peek!

Happy Thursday all!

This blog is going to be something of an experiment. It’ll be a little different to most blogs, in as much as I won’t be writing it. I’m hoping that you, the readers, will be doing the writing. Your questions answered:

Why are you doing it?

I’ve been thinking lately what it would be like to have a blog where everyone could participate and on any (legal) subject. So, here it is. It’ll either fall on it’s face and never be seen again, or be the biggest blog on the planet. Or somewhere in between.

Why would I want to write your blog for you?

For a number of reasons. Here’s a few possibilities:

• You’ve got something to say, but haven’t got your own blog
• You have you’re own blog, but you’ve got something to say that’s not on the subject of your blog
• You want to be part of this experiment
• You want to get involved in something that could be really, really big (or not - we’ll see)
• You just can’t stop writing
• You want to see your name in print
• Why not?

What’s in it for you?

Well, as I say, it’s really just an experiment. If it takes off, who knows. If it doesn’t, hopefully at least it’ll be fun along the way.

Okay, I’m in. What do I do?

Send me your post using the Submit Post form. I’ll pick (depending on how many posts I get and at what frequency) at least 1 per day to post on the site. If I don’t post it that day, I might hold it back for another day unless you specifically ask me not to.

The small print

We’re gonna have to have some rules here to stop it all getting out of hand. Most should be obvious, but here’s a non-inclusive list of what I can think of so far:

• My decision about what gets posted is final. There will be no arguments on this. Well, you can argue if you like, but it’ll be one-sided, as I won’t be responding. Reasons I might not publish an article include, but are not limited to:
  • Illegal content
  • Abusive content
  • Anything likely to offend
• I can re-format before posting. I’ll go through the posts I want to publish and may need to re-format them to fit in with the blog
• The writer of the post gets full credit and their name will be published along with the post
• Comments will be allowed, but will be moderated
• Anything found to be plagiarised will be immediately removed once proof has been provided and the sender of the dodgy material will be added to a Hall of Shame page if needed.
• I won’t choose any posts in preference to any others for any reason. The whole idea is that any subject matter is fine, so long as it adheres to all the rules. If I get 30 suitable posts in one day, I’ll maybe post 4 or 5 and keep the others back for quiet days. That wouldn’t mean, for example, that I thought the 4 or 5 were any better than the other 35 (or 36).

I’ll likely be adding to this list over time. Think of this in the same way as you would a Readers Letters submission for a newspaper. If they’re unlikely to publish it, so am I.

Why are you doing this?

I’m not quite sure yet. Ask me again in 6 months.

Who are you?

See the About Me bit at the top.