Was there a reason you couldn't do this? Because honestly that sounds like a lovely life!
The money earned doing this wasn't enough to live on, unless I stayed living at home with my mum (which is what I'd been doing throughout the four years of my undergrad degree), and basically as soon as I'd graduated, she'd started sending me links to job applications and pressuring me to contact people she knew in the media to ask about work, and I couldn't bear the thought of having to endlessly apply for these things until I got a job (because she wouldn't have stopped with this stuff until I did), and didn't have the capacity to argue with her about this state of affairs (to be honest, I still find it impossible to argue with her when she thinks I should be doing something, and living on the other side of the world has made things a lot easier in this regard). Hence the panicked decision to move to Canberra and be a subeditor — it was the only thing I could think of at the time that would make the endless pressure and job applications stop.
What you've described about your own life certainly sounds like a series of forking paths — it doesn't sound as if it's always been easy, but it sounds as if they've led you to some interesting places, and ultimately to the place you find yourself now. I'm glad you're happier with your life now than when you were in your mid-20s — it would be really sad if it were the other way around!
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The money earned doing this wasn't enough to live on, unless I stayed living at home with my mum (which is what I'd been doing throughout the four years of my undergrad degree), and basically as soon as I'd graduated, she'd started sending me links to job applications and pressuring me to contact people she knew in the media to ask about work, and I couldn't bear the thought of having to endlessly apply for these things until I got a job (because she wouldn't have stopped with this stuff until I did), and didn't have the capacity to argue with her about this state of affairs (to be honest, I still find it impossible to argue with her when she thinks I should be doing something, and living on the other side of the world has made things a lot easier in this regard). Hence the panicked decision to move to Canberra and be a subeditor — it was the only thing I could think of at the time that would make the endless pressure and job applications stop.
What you've described about your own life certainly sounds like a series of forking paths — it doesn't sound as if it's always been easy, but it sounds as if they've led you to some interesting places, and ultimately to the place you find yourself now. I'm glad you're happier with your life now than when you were in your mid-20s — it would be really sad if it were the other way around!