Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

After graduating from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Psychology, I spent a year in the field as a childcare worker stationed in an intensive care facility for children with severe behavioral/mental disabilities up to 18 years of age.

In mid-2007, I moved to Scotland to start a new life, perhaps still hopeful that I could reinvigorate my academic interests. Small positions helped buttress my newfound independence, but also helped me realize my own unhappiness with psychology. Against what a lot of people thought was common sense, I put a moratorium on my psychological career to pursue a rather rusty passion for creative writing.

It's a complete (and somewhat mentally scarring) career change for me, and I'm struggling to find out exactly where to start. I'm developing a novel at the moment, which is the nice way of saying I've got a pile of balled up sheets of paper and spend most of my time praying (some would say crying) to the lottery gods.

Until I sort out my big project, freelance writing might help me bridge the gap between utter poverty and ramen noodle dinners. I hope. So I'm looking for help getting started and feeling confident.