: About Me

I am Jan Michael Yip, a renal nurse by profession and a freelance writer in between duties. I took up Psychology in college to better understand people and to try and figure out what makes all of us tick. That helped a bit but people in general are still a mystery to me. After a brief stint doing tech support for consumer electronics, ISP's and telecoms companies, I experienced an epiphany of sorts that required a major course correction in my life. I went back to  school and took up nursing. It  was around that time when I dabbled in writing. I remembered feeling a great sense of accomplishment as I cashed my first check for ghost writing topics ranging from gambling to search engine optimizations. I fancied myself a writer since then. 

Aside from reading and writing, I pride myself in being a movie buff. Schedule permitting and with usual company in tow, no good movie (and bad ones too) escape my harsh critique be it in ink or sarcasm laden oral commentary. It's just plain fun, really.  

My passion is ...

Writing and reading...

I know too much about ...

Star Trek

My parents always told me ...

safety first!

My childhood ambition ...

F-14 Fighter Pilot

My favorite memory ...

My pops buying me a NES

Why I write ...

Just love writing

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Foundation, Owl City

My first job ...

Consumer Electronics Tech Support

My inspiration ...

My family

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Mutterings of a jobless twenty-something

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It's been almost six months since I decided to quit my customer service job and focus on getting my act together as a nursing professional. So for the last 160 days or so, I was at home bumming around trying to finish some PSP game or I was bouncing from one hospital to another trying to get the latest "word" if hospital A (to Z) was hiring. Now if they weren't, the follow up questions were did they need volunteers, were they conducting trainings, do they have on the job trainings and other substantial queries I could think of just to make my visit worthwhile. Yeah I could have just called...

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