Balancing the search for work with the need to publish
by Richard PerkinsThis week I have a few interviews coming up in my search for work as an engineering project manager in renewable energy technology.
San Francisco’s south bay area is definitely proving to be a more productive area than anywhere in Australia. I have a second round interview tomorrow with a solar concentrator company and a first round interview with a power industry research organization next week. And I’ve made contact with three other promising leads since we arrived. I guess we chose well in settling here after our move from Melbourne.
So you’d think I have some free time to write, wouldn’t you?
But being the king of procrastination, there always seems to be something else to keep me away from the computer. Or something else to look at when I do sit down the the machine.
I’ve found that making a routine schedule helps. When I was in Melbourne, I commuted by train to wrok every day. One hour and twenty minutes each way. Thanks to my palm pilot and a wireless keyboard I made more regular progress on my writing in those eight months of full time work than in the eight months of unemployment that preceeded it.
Unfortunately I haven’t established a new routine yet. Everything is too fluid, with no definite demands on my time. But things will settle out. They always do.
