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(I know that asking this question of my LiveJournal audience is probably a pretty biased slice of stats, but you gotta ask your questions somewhere.)

Would you have any interest in buying (digital) prints or originals (b/w only) of any of the photos up on my website (or, I suppose, ScrapBook for that matter)?

Assume three things for this question:

1. That you have the spare cash just laying around waiting to be spent (so "but I can't afford it" doesn't enter into this - purely academic question)
2. That I have proper quality images to make prints out of (which is not often true, but just for the purpose of discussion), so this question is not having to do with the jpg quality up on the site, but imagine the images "at their best" if you will
3. That you are some random person who does not know me and so this is not the purchasing equivalent of a "pity fuck".

In other words, I just want to know, if you had come across the pictures randomly, would any of them make you go "hey, it would be cool to have a print of that, and I would pay >$0 for it".
[Poll #757258]

(no subject)

(I know that asking this question of my LiveJournal audience is probably a pretty biased slice of stats, but you gotta ask your questions somewhere.)

Would you have any interest in buying (digital) prints or originals (b/w only) of any of the photos up on my website (or, I suppose, ScrapBook for that matter)?

Assume three things for this question:

1. That you have the spare cash just laying around waiting to be spent (so "but I can't afford it" doesn't enter into this - purely academic question)
2. That I have proper quality images to make prints out of (which is not often true, but just for the purpose of discussion), so this question is not having to do with the jpg quality up on the site, but imagine the images "at their best" if you will
3. That you are some random person who does not know me and so this is not the purchasing equivalent of a "pity fuck".

In other words, I just want to know, if you had come across the pictures randomly, would any of them make you go "hey, it would be cool to have a print of that, and I would pay >$0 for it".
[Poll #757258]

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Now that I have a SIN I'm deep in quandary about what to actually DO. Do I try to wait for that perfect job that combines being at least related to what I can actually do (rather that trying to say "uh, sure, I can do technical writing!" when my degree is totally off compass from that and I have no prior experience in it), being local, my salary requirements, not having to get up at godawful in the morning, and not absolutely hating what I do? Am I being stubborn and not "allowing" by insisting on a certain combination of characteristics? Should I give them up one by one and take whatever I can get that fulfills the rest (assuming anyone actually even wanted to hire me)? All the other jobs I've had in my life I walked into by a combination of luck (right place/right time) and knowing someone who was able to turn me on to them (what you know, who you know). Should I try to wait until that happens again? Or because I didn't follow enotsola's advice and apply for the UoW cataloguing position despite not having a SIN (hoping to convince them that it would be here Real Soon Now), have I blown the chance I was given? Did I manage to "manifest" that and then not recognize that it was for me, or was the fact that it didn't occur at the right time a sign that it wasn't? Or have I got wrong ideas of "the right time"? Should I try for something in Toronto even though I really don't want to live there, but don't want to commute that far either? (I'd have no choice but to do so for a few months at least - hard to rent an apartment with no income and no rental history. I certainly can't move there first.) Was I, perhaps, even wrong to think I was supposed to leave the US in the first place? Am I being too hard on myself and feeling too pressured to find something immediately? Why did it seem so easy the other times and this time it's not? What am I supposed to be doing?