I'm lucky in that I've never had a day job I didn't like. (Or rather: I always managed to find aspects that I like out of my day job no matter how routine/mind-numbing it was.) But it's only when I got my current day job working for an author that I finally have a day job that fully supports my independent writing. Before, writing was a side project and there were no synergies. But now, I'm learning strategies and tactics from my day job (SEO, social media, etc.) that I can fully implement for my own writing as well. Plus I also finally feel justified to label myself a "writer."
I completely agree that writing can not be looked to as salvation from a day job you hate. If you hate your day job, then you have to find a new day job. Or create various other new sources of income. There's no easy escape.
Suddenly I find myself thinking about how when we were in school we longed for days off school. And of courese the concept of allowing life to be as it is, which I am totally wrestling with these days. This is so much the same, isn't it. Hmmm.
Thanks, I feel like I really needed to read that today. I dream of leaving my (systems architect) day job all the time, even though I've somehow managed to construct it around things in my life that are important to me. I suppose I've never thought a book would be the savior but SOMETHING to get out of the corporate mindset. Yet I did leave that world once, to make golf my life. It didn't work out like I thought. I ruined golf for myself completely (which is fine, I would never have found my way to what I'm doing now), tanked my retirement savings completely and learned a valuable lesson about taking something you love and trying to force it to support you. And yet, it is hard most days to not want a break from the weird insanity of corporate thinking.
I'm lucky in that I've never had a day job I didn't like. (Or rather: I always managed to find aspects that I like out of my day job no matter how routine/mind-numbing it was.) But it's only when I got my current day job working for an author that I finally have a day job that fully supports my independent writing. Before, writing was a side project and there were no synergies. But now, I'm learning strategies and tactics from my day job (SEO, social media, etc.) that I can fully implement for my own writing as well. Plus I also finally feel justified to label myself a "writer."
I completely agree that writing can not be looked to as salvation from a day job you hate. If you hate your day job, then you have to find a new day job. Or create various other new sources of income. There's no easy escape.
Suddenly I find myself thinking about how when we were in school we longed for days off school. And of courese the concept of allowing life to be as it is, which I am totally wrestling with these days. This is so much the same, isn't it. Hmmm.
Thanks, I feel like I really needed to read that today. I dream of leaving my (systems architect) day job all the time, even though I've somehow managed to construct it around things in my life that are important to me. I suppose I've never thought a book would be the savior but SOMETHING to get out of the corporate mindset. Yet I did leave that world once, to make golf my life. It didn't work out like I thought. I ruined golf for myself completely (which is fine, I would never have found my way to what I'm doing now), tanked my retirement savings completely and learned a valuable lesson about taking something you love and trying to force it to support you. And yet, it is hard most days to not want a break from the weird insanity of corporate thinking.