The ongoing quest to get my avians aligned

[annathepiper]

It’s been a while again since I’ve posted on angelahighland.com. For those of you who haven’t seen my recent annathepiper.org posts (or my posts to social media), here’s a quick overview of what’s been going on in my life lately.

Day Job: I got laid off from the day job at the end of September. I’m still sad about that, as I really loved that job! Since then, I’ve been working on a short-term testing contract while I search for other full time employment leads. This contract job is still in downtown Seattle, but it’s a bit farther south in downtown than I’ve worked before.

It’s also meant that my hours have been somewhat wacky, and I’ve been pretty fried by the time I make it home in the evenings. So I’ve barely had any time to keep up with regular adulting-type things like paying bills. Never mind actually writing anything. That said…

Writing: I’m still working on the next print edition of Faerie Blood. This is something that HAS to happen, given that the espresso book machine I’d been previously using at Third Place to do my print editions is no longer available. Once the day job situation stabilizes, I’m hoping I’ll actually be able to resume work on this. Right now, working on an edit pass seems like it’s more without my power than writing anything new.

(I know I haven’t written anything new in a while, and that DOES stress me out, you guys. But I gotta get my writing mojo back with baby steps, apparently.)

General Site Housekeeping: I had previously tried to spin up sub-sites of my annathepiper.org network, a dev site and a photo site, only to discover that trying to maintain two many different WordPress sites is annoying. So the dev and photo functionality I wanted to do is getting rolled into the general annathepiper.org site.

Angelahighland.com will retain its focus on my books.

For the time being, the bulk of my blog writing will remain on angelahighland.com. Annathepiper.org will get posts specifically related to that site. (This is only relevant to y’all if you’re following my sites directly. If you’re following me on Dreamwidth, you’re going to get both sites’ posts regardless!)

Any questions? How are y’all anyway?

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Comments

[tiggymalvern]

It's good to hear you found work to tide you over while you look for something better and more permanent. That kind of stress is definitely not conducive to creativity, you'll get back to it when everything's a bit more stable.

[annathepiper]

It HAS been reassuring that I've been swarmed by recruiters on LinkedIn. I haven't even really had to actively hunt for a job on my own yet.

And I've got a lead in play for a new full time position--again, a lead that came to me on LinkedIn and which I didn't even have to hunt for.

Moral of this story: LinkedIn is not at all useful if you're not looking for a job. But if you ARE, it's SUPER useful.

Also, apparently SDETs are in HOT DEMAND in Seattle right now, so there's that!

[tiggymalvern]

It's awesome to be in a field where you don't have to look for jobs, the jobs come to you. It's particularly relaxing to have interviews where you're interviewing the company and deciding if you want to work there as much as they're interviewing you!