Is there something that you always knew you didn't want to do?

Oh yes. Loads. But **L** summed up the main one perfectly. Deadlines are the bane of my existence. It's not that I struggle meeting them, I just don't work well under pressure.

- I knew that I would despise the editing process just as I did in university & high school.

- I always knew I wouldn't self publish.

- I always knew I wouldn't sell to a hackneyed publisher that I didn't respect just to make money.

- I knew I wanted a lifestyle that enabled me to enjoy my daughter and family rather than missing all of the memorable milestones.

- I knew that my accounting degree was a contingency plan and writing my real goal.

- I knew I'd struggle with poverty at first, but honestly, it's character-building and makes publication so much sweeter when you finally attain it.

- I knew I'd receive rejections

- I knew I would hate beta/alpha reading (because it requires editing)

- I always knew I'd make a terrible agent because I have a selective reading taste and wouldn't consider anything outside of my personal preference (but then, many literary agents are like this so...)

I don't want to be cooped up in an office.

But at the same time my career doesn't revolve around writing - I've spent several years at college working with lemurs, tapir, monkeys and a load of other animals... it was the best few years of my life, and that is what I want to do. Work with animals, either in a zoo or at a rescue.

But being in an office? That's not for me, neither is stacking shelves (no offence to anyone who does that!)

Anything 9 to 5 in an office.

Deadlines.

No, I would take any job in the biz, actually. Know anybody?