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Edgar and My EEG: Nobody Wants Your Stinking Job

Edgar and My EEG: Nobody Wants Your Stinking Job

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In spite of my little tiff with one person on Skool, I AM opening my writing community (all things writing, craft, and practice including me yammering on about Augusten Burroughs, Raymond Carver and the MAN, Charles Bukowski) and you can find it here! Write NOW!Welcome back to Born to Ramble, where I write, talk, laugh, complain, overshare, and occasionally turn a medical appointment into a short story.Today I’m hot, grumpy, unemployed, underdressed, and completely over the rules of the working world. So naturally, we’re talking about creative writing, AI, jobs, legacy, and the time I had an EEG after passing out on an airplane.This episode is Part Two of the story that began with my airplane medical emergency. After passing out on a flight and being evaluated by doctors, I ended up needing an EEG (electroencephalogram) to check my brain activity.Enter Edgar, my EEG technician.Edgar turned out to be much more interesting than I expected.He’s working 12½-hour shifts. He works weekends. He can barely get time off. He’s thinking about retirement. He’s got a diabetic cat. He’s considering simply not showing up for work during Thanksgiving week. He’s also debating whether or not to move to another planet. And, somehow, while he’s attaching hundreds of tiny wires to my head, we end up having one of the funniest and most unexpectedly philosophical conversations I’ve ever had with a stranger.And because I’m a writer and yes, I WAS born to ramble, I was mentally taking notes the entire time.In This Episode* Why I stopped caring about looking “put together” to record my podcast* My ongoing battle with The Job Report* Why I’m trying to move my creative writing classes online* My frustrations with one Skool moderator who triggered my distaste for authority figures* Why I think creative writing matters more in an increasingly AI-driven world* The connection between your hand, heart, mind, and writing* Why keeping physical notebooks and stories may matter more than we realize* How work can slowly separate us from the dreams we had when we were younger* The strange phenomenon of pretending to be “excited” about your job on LinkedIn* The story of my EEG and meeting Edgar* Edgar’s job that looks more like the life of an inmate than gainful employment* Cats, retirement, marriage, money, and hobosexuals* Why I couldn’t wait to get home and write this storyThe Bigger Question: What Happens to Your Story?This episode isn’t really about an EEG.It’s about work, identity, creativity, and the stories we lose when we’re too busy surviving.We’re living through a moment when so much of our lives are becoming digital, automated, searchable, and increasingly AI-generated.But what happens when the internet goes down?What happens when the power goes out?What happens to the things that exist only in a cloud, an app, a hard drive, or somebody else’s server?I have boxes and notebooks full of stories I’ve written by hand. I have letters. Diaries. Christmas letters. Stories. Memories.I have a physical record of a life.And that’s one of the reasons I believe creative writing is important.Writing isn’t just about becoming a professional writer. It’s about remembering who you were before the world told you who you were supposed to become.Maybe you had big dreams when you were little.Maybe you still do.Maybe they’re buried under student loans, mortgages, meetings, LinkedIn announcements, performance reviews, bills, and the general insanity of adulthood.I promise you: writing can help you find them again.About Born to RambleBorn to Ramble with Nikki Settelmeyer is a storytelling podcast about writing, work, creativity, life, ridiculous experiences, and the strange little moments that become stories.I’m a writer, creative writing teacher, and professional rambler. I believe funny stories can contain serious ideas—and that sometimes the best way to understand life is to tell the story of what happened.Join My Creative Writing CommunityWant to write your own stories?Join me in the Born to Ramble community on Skool, where I’m building a space for people who want to write, learn, share stories, and reconnect with their creative voice.Join Born to Ramble on Skool Get full access to Born to Ramble at borntoramble.substack.com/subscribe
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