In 2003, after 20+ years in the corporate world, I walked away from my well-paying day job with a plan to become a freelance writer.
I did so on the merit of one article, sold to a Canadian antiques publication, for which I was paid $75, and a recent correspondence school diploma in Creative Writing.
The timing was good; print media was still thriving and there were plenty of paying markets. But I also worked a lot of hours, promoted myself tirelessly to magazines, newspapers, and trade publishers, and as a result, the transition from manager with benefits to freelancer without went pretty well.
So well, in fact, that I was offered the Editor’s job at that same Canadian antiques publication in 2005.
Suddenly I was juggling freelance writing with editing, but I loved every moment.
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Thank you for sharing!
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Welcome, Judy 🤗
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Same here,
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Link now in place, Mick
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Thanks, Chris.
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I can’t get the link to work through to the rest of the article, Chris. x
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WOW – Thanks for the heads up, Sue – link now firmly embedded ❤
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Thanks, Chris 🙂 x
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