What to ask your self earlier than turning a pastime right into a job
Shortly after graduating faculty, I devised a plan to assist my grandmother make some cash.
Grandma, who we grandkids referred to as mammaw for causes I’ll by no means perceive, was retired. She’d spent her life stitching and crocheting, making every thing from doilies to quilts.
By the point I completed college, I noticed many individuals in suburban and concrete areas would pay a great deal of cash for what grandma made. And these individuals would pay Grandma extra for her artwork than what she was getting in her rural group.
So, I talked Grandma into letting me open a web-based retailer and listing her objects on Etsy. However after a couple of months, Grandma solely bought one quilt.
The issue was that Grandma needed to make quilts utilizing materials she appreciated or had mendacity round, which she discovered at yard gross sales and on sale at Wal-Mart. And that materials didn’t match what the “metropolis” individuals I used to be attempting to promote grandma’s quilts to needed.
I defined this to Grandma, exhibiting her examples of extra fashionable supplies than she used to make quilts.
After which Grandma gently let me know that she wasn’t desirous about altering the quilts she made. She needed to make the quilts she needed to make, not the quilts different individuals needed her to make.
Grandma knew what I used to be studying: Simply since you like one thing doesn’t imply you must attempt to earn money doing it.
Seek for recommendation for writers, and also you’ll quickly come throughout somebody telling you to not stop your job to develop into a full-time author.
And but, in Jan. 2020, I stop my job to develop into a full-time freelance author.
Earlier than lengthy, although, I noticed I didn’t take pleasure in attempting to earn a dwelling solely by means of writing. It was traumatic, all the time hustling for work, attempting to satisfy deadlines.
Full-time freelance writing is a enterprise, in any case, and it comes with all of the duties of entrepreneurship. I simply needed to write down, not pitch purchasers, reply…