It Turns Out That… It’s Never Too Late

After a decent amount of time spent on job boards looking for writing jobs to sustain my life, because my day job isn’t paying me, something dawned on me. It turns out that the biggest hurdle to getting a writing job is that the jobs already want you to be published. A bit of a Catch-22 that.

I like the phrase “it turns out that”, because it doesn’t place the responsibility on someone. In the aforementioned example, this is the most apt phrase to use. I can’t blame publications looking for freelancers who want some background, safety net, or at least something to judge someone (off the interwebs might I add) they’re about to give money to. At the same time, someone who is starting out is not going to be published anywhere, unless they find someone who is willing to take a chance on them. OR they have already done their time in a full time writing position somewhere. It seems I may have stumbled upon a solution in this rambling.

Time to go find an entry level writing job at 35. “It’s never too late to… blah blah blah”, except a lot of the time, it feels patronising. The crux of this, is what someone is willing to give up in pursuit of the unknown, isn’t it? Sometimes it does feel like it’s too late.