Indeed, Wook.

At the very least I would have continued to expand the business until it was at a point where I knew I was losing money by not focusing on Desktop Publishing. Quitting a job with the hope of expanding a business to bring in a stable income is like playing the lottery. Good luck!

I've known a lot of women who will quit jobs on the spot. Usually married or living with a guy who will pay their bills, so they don't really care. Guys tend not to have the luxury to be too flighty.

Would prefer "so when you gonna let me tap that."

What he said.

My plate is full. Sometimes I feel very overwhelmed and wonder why I put so much on myself It's just that from a young age I was aware that I would only have so much time in this life to accomplish anything important to me, so I feel guilty for wasting any time. But mostly I'm doing the things I love or contributing to making it possible for me to do what I love, so I can't complain.

A line editor's job is to distinguish the forest and the trees, going line by line and dealing with plot problems, phrasing problems and so on, much like what you have done when helping me out with my own stories. The test includes several examples from their already published works but before they made any changes. My suggested revisions don't have to be in keeping with the changes they ended up making, but they do need to be thorough, aggressive, and accurate enough that they would have made them better pieces. Punctuation and grammar are good to point out but not stressed as much since that is something the copy editor will later focus on.

All the work is done through an online office, no need to be anywhere near their physical location. Pay is an abysmal $50 per book, so no way I can quit my job and do this for a living yet, but it's a step in the right direction.

Got to go, I'll respond later with your question about school.

Yeah I know two women like this and they did expect their husbands to just pick up the slack. It sort of shocked me.

But I also know 3 men like this, so I don't think it's really a gender issue. The two women are really histrionic and self-centered if you ask me. Of the 3 men that I know, all 3 are alcoholics and one (my ex) is bipolar, which I think contributed to his difficulty sticking with a job. My ex had no patience for bitchy bosses and was known to fly off the handle and quit on the spot. I eventually got sick of it.

Hate to be a cynic, but hope you like kids. Some women choose the mommy route when they get tired of or frustrated by work and know they have their expenses covered.

Thing about building up and maintaining contacts and networking is it can be a full time business of its own, and a pretty much perpetual one. Talking to people you don't like, going to parties you don't want to go to, becoming involved in community events and organizations you are not interested in, etc. If your GF doesn't truly groove on such stuff, it could be very hard for her.

Comparing apples to oranges here, if you're talking average women versus exceptionally nutty guys. Of course nutball guys are going to be as nutty as average women, if not more so. But in general, men know they can't not work and expect women to be the sole earner in a relationship.

Disagree here. The guys that I know are all in long term relationships and if you met them you would not think they were "nutty." You would be surprised at how many women actually are the breadwinners in many low-to-mid income families. I don't mean to argue with you, just saying that in my opinion it is not a gender issue, it's an individual issue.

Careful. Once you clarify for her that you know one thing, what happens if she bumps into a guy who knows two things?

You may be setting yourself up for a fall, here.

I can picture a woman saying this to a man, and I wouldn't blame her or be surprised, either. A couple is no longer a single, after all.

Harder to picture a man saying that to a woman, but it shouldn't be.

Hell, OUR sky is reddish in the evenings and hazy during the day from your fires.



Don't have time right now to comment other than I disagree with Katy. (Sorry) I have personally seen this FAR more with women than men. Not always, but in general. I attribute it to the Male/logic Female/emotion thing

For the amount of work being done, it sounds like basically a token payment rather than a real one. To really work on a book line by line would take countless dozens of hours. I think it's sometimes quicker to write stuff than edit it. But it does sound like it will give you a lot of experience in a field you're interested in, and keep your hand in to pot when it comes to networking.

I hope you don't have to sit through too many horrible submissions.

The distinguishing the forest for the trees parts sounds decent. It's fun to turn the larger things about; the nitty work gets tedious.

okay, just did the P90X "stretch" video with the GF. Did that because we only have one set of bands and no chin up bar yet.

wow, I haven't stretched like that in 25 years. I feel worn out but great now.

Tomorrow I'll get into the meat and potatoes and do the "chest and back" video here at home by myself.

Let's just call them exceptional then. You are comparing apples to oranges if you compare the psychological or emotional stability of ordinary women versus the stability of two alcoholics and one bipolar. Unless we've begun defining emotional and psychological stability downward to include having commonly life-changing dangerous addictions, for instance. And I think that would be stretching things a bit.

A more fair comparison would be if ALL the people you were comparing were equally not addicts or afflicted with significant psychological considerations.

Now, if you had said one of the guys simply has a fetish for sitting up to his waist in smoked herring, I would have agreed he was comparable to average people, as long as he didn't do it at work.