Let's uncover her dirty little employment secrets, shall we?
What was your favorite job ever?Until I decided to become a writer I never had any career ambitions and I certainly never had any jobs that I particularly liked. Though I did like working in the gourmet ice cream parlor as my after school job, mainly because of all the free gourmet ice cream that was involved!!
Your least favorite job?
Soooo many to choose from. I worked as a travel agent which was pretty horrible because I always worried that my customers wouldn't make their connecting flights, plus I hated seeing everyone else go on cool trips while I had to stay at home. Boo!
Your hardest job?
I had one job that was so soul destroying that it killed me to drag myself in the door everyday. It was working for a Security Company and I was meant to convince people to get service contracts on their home security systems. It was the most pointless thing I've ever done in my life and that's what made it so hard! To use a writing analogy you could call that job my dark moment!!!!
What is the biggest job perk you've had?
When I was a travel agent, our store won a competition that was run by one of the domestic airlines here in NZ. Anyway, the prize was that our office got a brand new red BMW convertible and everyone got to use it for one week. At first I couldn't really see the big deal until it was my turn and boy did that baby fly - plus my husband drooled like you wouldn't believe!
What did you like least about working in an office job?
Everything! It all seemed so pointless! And though of course it was important to get money every week it just made me feel so bleurgh! I much preferred when I had kids and got to stay at home with them and do my writing at the same time. We were crazy broke, but I was a lot happier!
What did you like most about working in an office job?
Some of my closest friends were ones I made when I was working, so it wasn't all bad!
What you would do if you weren't a writer?
Strangely enough, now that my kids are in school I've just started working on the weekends at the children/teen desk at my local library and I can honestly say that I love it!!!! I don't even consider it work because I get to talk about books all day and help kids to find more books to read! So I guess if I wasn't writing (though shudder at the thought) then I would want to work at the library full-time.
What you would do if you were independently wealthy and didn't actually HAVE to work?
Do you know I used to play this game ALL the time and it was one of the reasons why I decided to pack in work and become a stay home mother, because writing and hanging out with my kids are the two things that I love most in the world so I feel really lucky that I'm already doing exactly what I would if I was rich (though if I was rich, I would probably own more shoes bags and shiny necklaces, and my husband probably would've snuck off to buy that fancy BMW for himself!!)
Wah! Everyone but me has had awesome job perks! I mean, seriously, gourmet ice cream and a BMW?!? The best I ever got was free potato chips. (Usually the "test flavors" which roughly translates to "slightly better than garbage".) Sigh.
Okay, tune in next week for part two of the Kiwi saga, when we get a peek at New Zealander Sara Hantz's Prologue.
Hugs,
TLC
2 comments:
Haha, BMW! Wow, that got to be nice huh?
Diana - yup the BMW rocked!
Tera - my accent definitely doesn't rock!!
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