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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Describe a missed opportunity you encountered, and how things might have been different if you hadn't missed it.  {/center Quote: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle https://www.therandomvibez.com/missed-opportunity-quotes/ Opportunity or Hints??  Guess I had to build a door most of my life so I'm not to sure about opportunities. I'm kind of straight forward in my speech so if I get a hint from someone I'm not good at picking up on signals. I've turned down offers of employment once in awhile but usually had a good reason. Like you can write for us but we won't pay you. I wrote and was published while I was in college and for a bird magazine before college all for freebies. Now if I'm good enough to write at all I think there should at least be a reward for the work. College kids ran a strike on the college newspaper for the same reason. Writers have a difficult time finding the right gig for the right reward unless they are part of a group who is backing them. As a journalist I liked being told; find me information on this subject and submit an article. So, maybe I need more motivation. Or just interaction with the publisher which I can't get unless I work at it. And yet if I get curious enough about a subject I will read, research, and write about it. Hmm. I do remember a straight out opportunity in about 2005. I was in a college admittance office submitting info for graduation when out of the blue a woman at a desk waved me over. She said if I wanted her to she could probably get me a teaching certificate. It was such an out of the blue offer and had nothing to do with my status as a student about the graduate after 5 full years. I don't think I even took it seriously so my fault not hers. Six months later out of work and looking for a job I remembered the offer and looked up a catalog. It would have meant about 15 more credits and I would have been a journalist and a teacher. I often think I would like to spread some of the knowledge I have to others so maybe teaching would have been a good fit? Still I was 60 when I graduated. Are there actually opportunities out there for a teacher at that age? Also, I lack trust in people so even this opportunity left me with questions like why now and not the first time i tried to do college when i was 27. Life is a mystery yet to be solved. |
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