I recently wanted to apply for an art thing. Only it required in person attendance. Which, as a mostly housebound person… didn’t feel doable. I sent in a query about how to have a modified version of this so I could apply for the art thing. I received a thoughtful response, but it lead me […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
What Job Hunting Was Like
I know I’ve mentioned all over the place, and a little bit here, about what job hunting as a furtherly (technical term) disabled person was like. I’ve written about how I’m coming to terms with how long I’ve been disabled and what that meant when I didn’t know. But I never really summarised what […]
Learning and Unlearning
Learning and Unlearning Take a look at this reel: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Rewilding 🌻 (@charlierewilding)  It’s really good. It’s on the topic of burnout but I feel it’s really applicable for all kinds of chronic and fluctuating conditions. My health has never […]
Why Is It Important?
I saw this on social media – posted by a writing tool. It’s important to find ways to make your writing workflow more efficient. You want to ensure that you’re spending the majority of your time being productive. As I said, this was posted by a writing tool. Their motive is clear – […]
Take Care of Yourself
Take Care of Yourself The last three weeks have been exhausting. Mostly due to stress. I did briefly utilise EAP chat to talk about the stress of discrimination in job hunting but it basically came down to “I’m sorry that’s happening to you. It is wrong. Can you do craft?” I was hoping […]
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Apparently I’m An Advocate Now
Apparently I’m An Advocate Now At least for myself… As some of you may know, the project I was working on in my day job has had some issues, and the short story is that myself (and many others) had their contract cancelled. I was expecting another 6-12 months of working there, so […]
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That’s Not Merit
At the end of 2021 I had to start looking for a job. My contract wasn’t going to be renewed due to ongoing budget cuts. I want to talk about one particular interview. This was within the Australian university sector, the same sector I was in at the time. I had an interview […]
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Digging into expectations
I’ve finally been feeling *just* well enough that I have been able to restart doing some behind the scenes work on Normal Systems. Nothing too fascinating, just finally pulling some thoughts out of my head and into draft sales pages. One offer not on the website yet will be a day of voxer type […]
The Stab and Twist
There are plenty of moments in life where you get stabbed, but also feel the knife twist inside you. Hopefully they’re all metaphorical and not real, because while the metaphorical sucks, I assume the real also really fucking hurts. I’m still trying to unpack layers of mental crap from my last job. I think […]
July Creative Contemplations
I took my first “real” time off work this year in July. A whole week without the day job. Of course I am casual, so that’s also a whole week without pay, which means digging into what savings I have… but the only time off I took this year was two days between leaving my […]