Comments on: Get A Real Job! https://booksbywomen.org/get-a-real-job-by-evie-gaughan/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 16:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Writing is a Real Job! | The Dream Book Blog https://booksbywomen.org/get-a-real-job-by-evie-gaughan/#comment-48532 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 16:52:22 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18668#comment-48532 […] for America. Nothing shows this more than an article I recently read by author Evie Gaghan titled “Get a Real Job!”. The title is actually an irony rather than an order because it is a commentary about an offhand […]

]]> By: Evie Gaughan https://booksbywomen.org/get-a-real-job-by-evie-gaughan/#comment-48469 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:11:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18668#comment-48469 In reply to Tam May.

Thanks Tam 🙂 Yes, I was a bit taken aback by it myself, but it is Twitter and sometimes limiting your thoughts to 140 characters can backfire! Congratulations on your new career path. It shows that everyone’s experience is different, so I think making generalisations like that wasn’t helpful. I must clarify, however, that ‘getting a real job’ was my quote and that Diana Gabaldon didn’t use those words (I put her quote in italics). While it still remains a fact that many writers have to supplement their income through various means, I don’t know if advising the younger generation to educate themselves in a completely different field is the best advice. Do we want them to have a job, or do we want them to be happy and fulfilled?

]]> By: Tam May https://booksbywomen.org/get-a-real-job-by-evie-gaughan/#comment-48467 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:38:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18668#comment-48467 Wow. What a disappointment that such a bestseller author would be so callous and vicious towards a new writer’s question. That is not how we encourage young writers. And as for the idea that English degrees are useless and writers should get a degree in something that will get them a “real job” (funny, a bestselling author doesn’t consider what she does a “real job”…) – I went back to school in my 30’s to get my English master’s degree and that supposedly useless degree got me a whole different career path as a college teacher and EFL teacher and tutor. Guess those aren’t real jobs…

Thank you for this article!

Tam

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