If our psychics and sensitives here can spare their time: new job concern.

[BlueIris]

Well, not exactly. What I am searching for is information on a new opportunity that others (trusted sources) predicted would come my way this September. Supposedly, it doesn't come from the warehouse job I'm working now, but I guess it theoretically could (I feel like I've looked everywhere else for it and maybe my current job is the gateway to it and I just haven't noticed). The reason I'm asking for impressions from the group again is that I feel it is really, really important that I find and utilize this opportunity, and all of the readers I usually turn to for help in these situations are unavailable. It was intimated to me that this would come my way "in September," and I realize we're not done with September yet, but I'm kinda frustrated that we're almost at the end of the month and I haven't located it yet.

Clues I have about the nature of the opportunity: a) it may involve significant financial gains (not necessarily in the form of a high salary; it's possible its rewards are more like "social currency," b) it's supposedly quite different from anything I'm doing now (possibly even part of a "counter-culture") and c) it has the potential to be entirely absorbing. So much so that I was told this is its number one risk to me, and that if I got too absorbed in it, it would put the novel I'm trying to finish at risk.

If anyone gets any impressions about what this opportunity is, I would love it if you could post them here. There is the remote possibility that I've already found it, but that the person or other agents who make me aware that I've found it simply haven't stepped into view yet, and if anyone "gets" that, this would be helpful to know.

[BluePatriot]

1. Hmm.

Sounds like interesting non-profit work to me, perhaps in a favorite cause? Or work along those lines on a college campus?

*shrug*

[BlueIris]

3. !

Well, that makes me feel better about what I did today. (Went to fulfill some phone banking commitments I made for the campaign of a local Dem who needs the support; was pleasantly shocked to find an intelligent, coordinated, focused, non-threatening team of young Progressives in her H.Q. who are actually Democrats--unusual for our community.) I was worried that might wind up being a distraction for me, something that could undercut my current moves toward being healthier, more independent and more invested in myself and my art, yet the more I think about it--young Democrats! Actually up-to-date on everything! Focused! None of the men hit on me! None of the women mocked me! And whoever picked the space they have to finish up the campaign did a great job. The air in there is terrific. It's in an older house-turned-office in my city's business district, and despite its age, it feels like nothing bad has ever happened there. Very auspicious. I'm still planning on setting limits on the amount of time I spend there, but maybe it was a step closer to where I'm supposed to be instead of a step away from it.

[MissWaverly]

17. I too had a feeling about academic center

working with computers, at least I had a feeling of working at a computer with flat screen,
wearing some kind of head phones, I guess that's pretty generic but I had a vision that it
was in a room that was dark, like there was a wall of windows along an outer wall, but
you were further back in the room so that it was darker there, more like an office but the
open area was within walking distance, like an outside hallway but the place was kind of
modern architecture so the spaces kind of flowed into one another like an airport does.
Is it possible that you could take a temporary job that could lead to a permanent one?

[MorningGlow]

2. I'll give it a shot

I don't do this too often, but...as I was reading your message I got "last week of September" and something like an underground newspaper--an independent or something. Very funky. Have you got many of those 'round your way? :hi:

[BlueIris]

4. Oh, man. THANK YOU.

More on this as it develops...

Woah, that is amazing. You must be very gifted. And that was...the last thing I was thinking this opportunity might be, but one of the only explanations that satisfies nearly all of the criteria my psychics and my own instincts have told me about this. NICE. Thank you so much!!

[MorningGlow]

5. Dang, I had better be right!

:hi:

No guarantees, now, Blue! Like I said, I don't do this very often, so I have no proven track record. But for your sake, I sure hope that's what's going to happen! I have a sneaking suspicion that you'd really like an indie paper--and gods know they take lots of time and commitment. Guess we're just going to have to wait and see, huh?

[BlueIris]

6. Well...ugh, at this point, let's hope your sinking suspicion is correct.

Because the only thing I don't like about this idea is that it's a paper. I hated journalism. I actually had a revelation the other day that participating in journalism (well, as a "reporter") was one of the ways I'd consistently sold myself short over the years. (Nothing, I repeat, nothing, against our Astro forum journalists--I'm sure your work was meaningful, even profound, and represented something that satisfied you more than it ever could me.) Let's hope that if this underground paper thing pans out that they don't need me as a writer because...not gonna do that.

I just--wow, it is so curious that you would have come up with this. All week long, I have been having what I perceived to be the weirdest flashbacks to work I'd done as a j-major in college, having dreams about running into old classmates and explaining why I left Oregon's j-school ("it wasn't the right life for me") thinking about how even though journalism was a horrible, meaningless, pointless and joyless experience for me, (and something that stymied my progress as a fiction writer, poet and aspiring scholar) it did lead me down a path to vital information about life in the Bush years, without which I literally wouldn't have survived (long story). I've also been thinking a lot about what a past-life reader told me last fall about my future...that I wouldn't be supporting politics in the way I had before, as a community volunteer on the street or as something or someone else who was directly involved in the fight (for a politician, for the Party). I was going to support it, in her words, in a more "underground" way. I have been wracking my brain for almost a year trying to figure out what that meant.

I was told by my trusted source that I don't have to utilize this opportunity and in fact, if I believe it will jeopardize my book, I shouldn't. In fact, if one is to believe the ramblings of our Karen, I don't have to do anything anymore. Nothing is fated me any longer. I don't want to be a hack writer again. I thought all of that was so painfully stupid, a pointless waste of time, and something that made me feel (and be) less than I am. Just the thought of having my brain squelched into the tiny world of newspaper reporting again is making me sick.

[MorningGlow]

7. Wonder twin powers, activate!

Have I mentioned we're living parallel lives, lately? :rofl:

I absolutely REFUSE to be a reporter--always have, even when my lunkheaded relatives (cousins--thank the gods, nobody in my immediate family) couldn't figure out what I was doing in college as an English major--"Whaddya gonna do, write for da paper?" "NO!!" The thought of going to a city council meeting and writing several column inches on zoning gave me hives. (But I agree--no offense to journalists here--it just wasn't for me.)

Okay, how about a columnist? That would cover the political angle. Or a reviewer? Or an editor?

The past-life person actually said "underground" too?--man, no wonder you freaked at my initial post! I was surprised at "my" choice of that word (apparently it was coming from somewhere else) and went back and threw in "independent" so it wouldn't sound like three sleepless, inkstained people in a basement rolling off copies on an old mimeograph machine and rambling on about revolution. (Unless you like that kind of thing.)

[BlueIris]

8. Okay, this is hysterical. Hee. Brain twins indeed.

You simply must PM me with your birthday info (sorry, don't have the energy to pull the 'tell us about your chart' thread to see if you posted it there.) Composite astrology is my hobby lately and I would love to see how our charts contrast.

Um...yeah, the past life reader actually used the term "underground" to describe the way I would be supporting political stuff in the future. Heh. This is LAST way I would have imagined I'd be doing that, though. And I guess we'll have to see how the opportunity unfolds before I can say whether or not I'll be taking advantage of it in any form because...man, this would seem to be "it"; it fits all the criteria put forth by my readers and my own strange intuitive inklings of late. It's curious that you would ask whether three or four folks in a basement would be something I'm into--I tried to start an underground paper once, back in high school, in my other life as a would-be future journalist. Couldn't get up enough interest on my campus for a truly "underground" publication. It was supposed to be an underground literary magazine, actually...I'd been randomly thinking about those endeavors a lot in the last few days, as well as thinking about a collection of underground papers produced by high school students of the '70s that a teacher friend of mine gave me when I was a teenager ("for posterity"). Couldn't figure out why I'd be thinking about those memories. And you should see the Tarot cards I'm getting right now.

...egh. Okay. It's possible I'm getting way ahead of myself. I have to find this place before I should start weighing pros and cons, plus, well, free will. The idea of doing this kind of work again makes me very nervous, especially if it is political writing. That might kill any dreams I've nurtured of working for the Democrats again in any formal sense.

[MorningGlow]

9. Well no wonder!

No wonder you're flipping out--it seems like lots of things in your life have been leading up to this. And maybe now it's time!

Doncha just love it when the serendipity kicks in and you get bonked on the head--symbolically?

Actually I thought of you earlier today--I was having a heart-to-heart with our decent, get-it-done manager, telling her how I've been bashing my head against a figurative wall, trying to get some kind of defintion and commitment about my job out of our new VP. I ventured to ask her whether I should shift to another job that just opened up in another PR department at our university. I have misgivings about it--the chi in that building is TERRIBLE--and she had her reservations as well...and then two monarch butterflies went by. :rofl:

Anyway, check your inbox for my birth data!

[Why Syzygy]

13. When I took journalism,

it was an admirable profession. Those classes taught me a lot. My instructor was visibly angry when I left the courses. That was due to an emotional move and never had anything to do with journalism. I was on the paper at the next school I went to.

But these days make me so glad I did not pursue it. No one can pay me enough money to write propaganda. Slant is okay and is part of poetry, prose and nonfiction. But don't ask me to write lies.

[MorningGlow]

15. Tell me about it

I was so demoralized when I worked in TV news for three years. I wasn't a reporter, but I saw how the story docket was put together and it was shameful--the "reporters" just divvied up the press releases that came in and covered those events. Absolutely NOTHING was reported on that might offend a) a sponsor or b) a local politician. Our investigative reporter moved to another state and they never replaced her--investigative reporting just ceased to exist--even the lame-ass "(This TV station) On Your Side" consumer-been-wronged segments.

I worry about the future of our country because we no longer have a free press. We have no Woodward and Bernstein to uncover the crimes of this administration, so they continue their crimes unchecked. The Repubs are no dummies--they got the news media in their pockets after deregulation of the markets and they were home free. And regular 'Murkins just can see it. But someday we'll look back on this era with a great deal of shame and incredulity that we let it get this bad.

Of course, by then the Visigoths will have invaded. (Amazing--Rome went for nearly 600 years and we couldn't even make it half that.)

:rant:

On edit: Dumb sentences.

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. I was seeing you at a location that looks like an urban, downtown

type storefront building. Large glass windows, glass door out to the sidewalk on a busyish street.
As I see you walking, you look happy and purposeful. Just a flash I got, didn't get the why or what.

[BlueIris]

11. Oooh, interesting.

This might indicate relocation, if not this fall, then eventually. I live in a staunch suburbia that isn't going to become urban anytime soon.

[wovenpaint]

12. Since I've been hanging around here more lately, I'll try

:hi: sometimes I hit and sometimes I don't .....my flash is that you ARE writing and this is the potential gateway because your name is seen...the distraction is this other writing (besides your novel in progress) because you may receive recognition for this writing and want to do more....I don't see it as "reporting" per se.....maybe commentary...weekly thing, maybe? Anyway, this is what I get and I just wanted to let you know that it may not be negative - like you're thinking...so don't necessarily shut it out? It may not happen literally in Sept-maybe beginning of Oct....oh, and you'll KNOW it when the time comes.
Best wishes and good luck!

[BlueIris]

14. Hey, thanks so much! That makes me feel much better.

Because...my book is as much a gift from the divine entities at this Sept/Oct opportunity is and it's...so important I don't mess up the book. As long as it appears to those here that I want to be doing the writing I'm going to be doing, though, well, maybe I can be optimistic that the experience won't be like all those other years I struggled to convince myself I was satisfied by what I was doing in journalism. 'Cause...it was pure hell. But we'll see.

[MissWaverly]

18. Blue Iris, I posted above before I read about the glass fronted

building, I get a strong feeling that this post is open now, they need somebody, am getting
stong vibes about temp to permanent, you being gifted and a can-do person, think this is
more research, may be progressive, type thing like Bill Gates stuff. Strong female
leadership. Can you google campuses around you, many have on-line jobs posted. This
could be all malarkey but that's my impression.

[Pathwalker]

16. Will do, Blue Iris!

On my list! Best wishes!

[BlueIris]

19. 'Kay; thanks for your time, everyone, but no one else needs to post.

I'm not a reporter. I'm not a "columnist." I'm a fiction writer/poet/someday scholar who is interested in metaphysics and supporting Democratic politics. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be doing anything that would disrupt my ability to do those things, especially working for a certain elected official someday if that opportunity arises. Also, the thought of trying to deal with an actual paper of any variety again is making me sick inside. That wouldn't just impair my ability to finish my important fiction, including my novel, it would KILL it. Also, a scummy reporter's job just...isn't me. Not anymore. And my day in a field office for a local Democrat up for reelection was SO great. That was a gift from the divine entities. There's no way I would want to start doing anything that would make activities like that impossible. You have to be what you are in this world, not what other people want you to be.

It occurs to me that the prediction that I would pursue this alleged job was given to me by my favorite Tarot reader before I'd even considered how important effecting Progressive political agendas through direct action like this is to me. At the time our last meeting took place, I was kinda waning on the idea of continuing to provide community support for candidates, for silly "other supporters were mean to me in '04" reasons. Ah, well, it's a good thing I really did keep my options open.