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[schreckschraube]

This has got to be the weirdest time of my life. I sold off my first kiddie novel to a big publisher who seems to think I'm the next big thing. My agent keeps poking me to finish the second one, so they can bait the publisher again. Meanwhile I'm unemployed and going through a series of odd jobs (very odd) to pay the rent, chasing every Euro. My

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[drunken_acolyte]

Sounds like a bit of both. By the way, are Sugar still going?

[schreckschraube]

Yeah, we're still playing gigs every few months. But over the last few years, almost the entire cast has changed. I'm the only one left from the original cast ;) But I guess you know the phenomenon.

[naked_runner]

Congrats! Well, we have 2015 already, only a couple of years until you can swim in money :P I really wonder about those odd jobs though. Care to elaborate? :P

[schreckschraube]

I'm selling olives at the weekly market, I take odd jobs as a HiWi at university, I give English and Biology lessons for high-school students, and I take part in market research studies as a test subject. All of these are irregular, except the olives. The market research studies are the craziest, but they're a lot of fun. You have to test products and give exact anaylses what feelings this product evokes in you, how you find it, how you shop for it, etc.