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Just giving you guys a heads up, because I know some of you are getting into them, now, but Holy Roman Empire (the band I run the street team for) are selling some of their older shirts for $4.00 (WTFIknow.) and they also have a gift package for whichever festival you celebrate right now, including their album, their old EP (which contains three of my favourite HRE songs) and one of their t-shirts (which is currently limited to the point where they only have one left of size medium!) all $25.00.

Click the banner to be taken directly to the deal at their webstore (where you can also pick up those ridiculously cheap shirts):



The band isn't that well-known, yet - but they're getting there and they come from a bunch of bands I think you guys might have heard of. Arma Angelus? Stabbed By Words? Rise Against? Then there's The Hope Conspiracy, Suicide File, Shai Hulud...

Even if you don't buy the packs, check out the band's stuff on their MySpace. Emily has an amazing voice, and you get to be cool and say you knew them before they were (particularly) famous.

There's also the LJ comm at holyromanlj.

If you want to do anything for me in the season of good cheer, but their album for someone else. Spread the word. ♥

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I need a career change.

I've resolved to get a new job in the New Year, but I'm thinking about getting into something that would allow me to be rated as a Skilled Worker, perhaps, so I could work internationally in the future.

I've thought about becoming a tattooist, because it's obviously something I love and I do have some skills with regard to drawing and shading - it's something I've always loved. I'm also not too bad with the blood aspect or dealing with other people (having been described by my manager, yesterday, as 'one of the best customer service staff I've ever met'). But that's hard to get into and would take a long period of training/apprenticeship during which I suspect I would be on really shit money.

Totally, totally different careers interest me, too - I mean, I'd be happy to become a plumber, even, if I could get the training. I suspect that the majority of women would be pretty happy to have a woman, er, checking their pipes (shows my kind of social circle, actually, that).

Does anyone have any suggestions? At the moment, I'm a National Account Co-ordinator for a charity; I manage the training for mega-huge companies, solve all their problems, deal with all their queries from, 'When is the next First Aid at Work Course?' to, 'How many First Aiders do we need?', to 'WTF is this on my invoice?', to 'Mavis has got a bad back, can she do the course?'. We're talking the parent-companies of high street banks, here. Companies that huge. And in the last year or so, I've had two of my contacts leave and go to new companies, and contact us from their new jobs to ask if they can have an account and please can Rosie be my account manager, plsplspls?

I'm good at what I do now, and I know that. But it's time to do something else.

The only thing is, I don't have parents or anything to support me in this. Nothing to fall back on. And damn, have I seen my friends pull some amazing feats when it comes to getting out there under their own steam and going for what they want (and I am so, so proud of one person in particular; they know who they are) so I shouldn't complain... but man. It's a daunting prospect.

But I know I have to do this sooner rather than later and now is the perfect time.