Assuming there are a large proportion of people here that hope, some day, to be able to give up the day job and write full time:
What is it you do currently, to keep the wolf from the door?
Or perhaps you work in the "industry" but write comedy purely as a hobby?
(Apologies in advance is this seems a nosey or invasive question ) 
I can't reveal any intimate details about myself. 
Chip, there's no reason to be ashamed of being a door to door satsuma salesman.
Quote: zooo @ June 7 2011, 11:46 AM BSTChip, there's no reason to be ashamed of being a door to door satsuma salesman.
I dream of a world where men knock at my door with a bulging sack of sats.
I'll be unimpressed if someone edits that.
I'm a kept woman. 
I'm a pig skinner from Pimlico
I used to be Richard Madeley's fluffer, before Judy found out.
I do stuff for a charity that does stuff
previously I did other stuff for a council
I do stuff in a production office for most of my awake hours in the day.
It sucks.
Does anyone else think they should break free from the 9 2 5 and be something?
Did you want to be a butterfly all your life Bloom, did you never want to be a butterfly?
I dream of 9-5... I work 8.30-7.30pm most days.
Are you getting any overtime?
You might want to work out your actual hourly rate and perhaps discuss it with your boss?
All pull together work places where every one mucks in and no one wants to be Johnny sticks to his contract. Can rapidly become extremely abusive and unpleasant. Don't get the piss taken.
Over time in the Meeja industry? Hahahahahaha.
Quote: EllieJP @ June 7 2011, 5:31 PM BSTI dream of 9-5... I work 8.30-7.30pm most days.
For not enough money and too much time spent in front of excel/outlook? You on the more admin side of things?
Friend of mine, who's male so may not work in your case, calls it 'ladmin'. He finds a more macho and laddish approaches improves the rigmarole.