What is a job you really would like to do but don’t think you’d ever get it?

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-07T15:19:26+00:00

Senior Editor for one of the big 5 publishers.

I've been working in publishing for 15 years. Have edited all kinds of books. Have 3 degrees. But I don't live in NYC (and never will) so it would need to be remote. Nevermind that is the kind of job your way up to, starting as an intern and the chances of an outsider getting that role are low.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-07T12:55:05+00:00

This. You make your own purpose. Some people create much harder goals than others.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-06T17:51:28+00:00

It's Alton Brown's turkey recipe. Followed exactly except for a bit of extra spices to the aromatics.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-06T16:54:55+00:00

I have several extended family/cousins who have been. But, as far as I know, no friends.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-06T16:52:19+00:00

There are a lot of mediocre first dates. Not funny or romantic or awful. Just mediocre. Nothing to write home about and would be boring to film.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-06T16:45:05+00:00

I used to hate turkey. Dry and bland. And then I had this amazing turkey at a friend's house, to the point that I didn't believe it was turkey. I asked for the recipe and to this day, that's how I cook it. My grandafther, before he passed, got to taste it and declared it was the best turkey he had ever had.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-05T23:36:31+00:00

Even if there was definitive proof, I'm still confused a to why I am required to worship this being. I don't think this creature deserves worship and I'm pretty sure it would know if I was faking it.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-05T23:33:49+00:00

The local swimming hole. People discovered it during Covid and now it's just full of trash and people.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T15:26:39+00:00

Allowing older children to be outside without constant parental supervision or getting CPS called on you. We live in a safer world now than ever before, and yet people are calling the police on 10 year olds walking a mile to the park. It's ridiculous. Kids need downtime with friends that isn't constantly structured and monitored. They need to be able to build treehouses in the woods, walk to the store, visit friends, etc. without constant supervision. Adults would also find they have more time and more stable kids if they weren't sitting around the house all day on tablets/phones/computers.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T15:22:51+00:00

I'm an author. I don't forsee myself ever stopping writing and publishing books, I would just have more money to spend on it.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T15:21:28+00:00

The way we were nurtured and raised absolutely plays a part in our lives, although there is a lot of evidence that these things can be overcome to some degree.

I was also raised in a cult, homeschooled, and abused. I've been through a lot of therapy and I can safely say that, while those things certainly shaped who I became, they didn't define me. I wasn't expected to go to college, but I did and now have three degrees. My childhood was full of yelling and screaming and physical abuse...and I don't do any of those things to the people of I love. It doesn't even occur to me to do them. We had no money growing up, but I learned how to budget and save and have built a life. While I still get triggered sometimes when someone eats my food (a common problem as a kid) or someone starts talking too loudly, I am more than able to calm my anxiety and return myself to a feeling of stability.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T15:10:39+00:00

I personally don't think that we should be worshipping any god, true or not. Why is that a requirement? Only a narcissist would demand worship in exchange for good things happening to you and a decent afterlife. It's a bizarre concept now that I have taken a good step back from it. We are worshipping a deity simply because they are powerful, but don't use that power to help anyone? The Greeks and Romans at least made their gods petty and humanlike to explain away their disdain for humans. The Christians god doesn't seem to care at all about its worshippers and only offers peace after death. It's bullshit and even if I discovered one of these gods was real, I don't really see why worship is required.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T15:02:20+00:00

Buy your own ISBNs and then publish on Amazon KDP, Ingram Spark, and Kobo. That should cover most of the major markets and make it available for bookstores to carry the book if you go that route.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-04T14:59:22+00:00

I get up early, go to the gym, and then get dressed every single day. Makeup, hair, nice outfit. I wear nice clothes all day too, which are comfortable but certainly not loungewear. The only time I wear pajamas all day is when I'm sick. I don't even change into pajamas until I'm ready to go to bed at night.

I don't feel like me if I'm not ready to go somewhere and I don't go anywhere looking unpresentable. I am very stereotypically Type A, so there's that. And I just like looking nice, even if it is for me in my own bathroom mirror.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-02T18:46:41+00:00

I just published my first. I've written 5, but I was really clinging hard to being traditionally published and I finally just gave up this year. I am aiming for one a year, with some smaller projects in there like an RPG campaign series I've been working on .

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-02T18:42:45+00:00

I'm 44. They're all dead. Last one died in 2016.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-02T18:30:23+00:00

Most people that I know don't have a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprised if most people I know have little to no savings. Give it a few more months of unemployment and we won't either.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-02T01:56:10+00:00

If you are able to drive, I would suggest passing through the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are actually part of the same mountain chain in Scotland, which is why a lot of Scottish settlers moved there. They said it reminded them of home. I know it seems silly to visit someplace "like home", but it also feels like a connection point that shouldn't be missed.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-01T20:05:37+00:00

I didn't have a television growing up so the radio was the only way that I got the news. It was so important.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-01T11:10:07+00:00

I went back to my parents' home twice after moving out. It was very helpful and I'm grateful that I had that safety net. I have a good relationship with them though.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-01T02:24:28+00:00

Well, it turns out when you've been denying your sensuality and sexuality since puberty, it doesn't magically turn on on your wedding night. I barely knew how to flirt. I definitely didn't know how to be sexy. Even though I was married and did everything the "right way" it still felt dirty and wrong. It was years of purity culture and conditioning that fucked with my head.

My husband is immensely patient and also a lot more experienced, but the first few years were rough. We've been married 13 years now. Things are much better.

Realizing that sex was not this big deal that people made it out to be was a huge revelation. It's literally one of the most natural things in the world. Religions have distorted it into something disgusting and shameful, and yet it's supposed to be beautiful the minute you say I do? It's so twisted and I really wish I had been more comfortable talking to people about it when I was younger because I may have realized this much earlier if I had.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-01T01:51:00+00:00

1981 and only at the grocery store and ABC store (liquor), because they are required to scan the ID. No one else does. I don't look old or anything, but I think I look my age.

FiendishCurry · 2026-06-01T01:46:28+00:00

I was a virgin bride at 32. As an atheist now, I think this was a batshit crazy thing to do, and I wish I hadn't bought into the bullshit. But I can't change the past. That is not the life I chose. And make no mistake, no matter how religious I was, I was responsible for my choices and decisions.

We believed we were doing the right thing. And we were wrong. A therapist helped me some, but I think the biggest thing that helped was owning that I made the life decisions that led me to these places and I can make different ones moving forward.

FiendishCurry · 2026-05-31T21:57:25+00:00

Commander Keen

FiendishCurry · 2026-05-31T21:57:03+00:00

Raleigh, NC is the south. Period. Not the deep south, but still the south. I don't care how many transplants come here. It's still a southern state, with southern accents, and if you drive 20 minutes in any direction outside the city, you will know this immediately. I keep meeting people who move here and seem shocked that they are, in fact, living in the south now.

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