From Bunny Slippers to Business Plans
What a week! It started out on a somber note, with an overnight trip down to MD for a cousin’s funeral, but quickly turned around, with a job offer, my very first career coaching teleclass, and some exciting new projects. Excitement!
While I go do my happy dance (again), I’ll leave you to read this week’s link love:
My husband battled his fears of eventual bankruptcy by supporting my decision to leave my staff job and pursue freelancing full-time. And when I succeeded in bringing in my former staffer income within half a year as a freelancer, I sort of wanted to wiggle my butt and point and scream “In! Your! Face!”
The only thing that kept me from doing so was the knowledge that I still had a lot of debt to manage…debt that I probably should have taken care of before leaving my job.
Photo: ‘Derek J’ by Phil Watt
It’s been almost a year since I left behind a viable book publishing career for the terrifying uncertainty of freelancedom.
A questionable move considering that, three years before, I had been applying to just about any full-time staff job I could conceivably be considered qualified for.
To make an excruciating story less excruciating, let’s just say that I wasn’t feeling quite right within the corporate environment.
Now I work a number of freelance gigs, most of them from home, and I’ve never been happier. So, of course, I want everyone else to try it, too!
But as much as I advocate trying out new career paths, jumping blindly isn’t the smartest way to go.
