Sentences with phrase «made quitting the day job»

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At first Guerrero came in after work and made sales calls, but he quit his day job after a few months to sell for Switch full - time.

Within a year I quit the real estate investing blog and jumped back into a day job as vice president of growth at BiggerPockets.com, and although it was agonizing to make, it was perhaps the best decision I've ever made.

Instead of promising to quit your job every day, start being proactive outside work in making yourself presentable to the next company you'd like to work for or start transforming yourself into who you want to become.

In 1991, Jordan and her husband Jeff Lebesch quit their day jobs and made the incredible leap to start a brewery in their basement.

During that time, Whitfield's husband, an IT consultant who does contract work with the government, reviewed Traci Lynn's compensation plan for distributors and convinced her to quit her day job and make the leap.

Once upon a time, there was a young man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could make it big one day and worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to live a life of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in value investing.

The biggest mistake a lot of agents make is to ignore the more routine, lower - end sales — the equivalent of quitting their day job — just so they can concentrate only on the big cases.

Just because you've quit the day job, it doesn't mean that you have to stop making money during retirement.

Gillibrand would clean her clock.Do not quit your day job «Count Chocula» whatever that may be because your political predictions are so stupid they make absurd seem plausible.

The former Energy Minister was moved to Liz Truss's old job - getting a seat at the Cabinet table for the first time - despite quitting her leadership bid within days amid a major row over comments she made about motherhood.

Parents like Jessica Owens, 28, said she would most likely have to quit her job at Albert Einstein College of Medicine if cuts were made to her son Rory's day care, Pequenos Souls Day Care Center on East 122nd Streday care, Pequenos Souls Day Care Center on East 122nd StreDay Care Center on East 122nd Street.

Some high - profile bloggers — particularly in the world of political commentary — have attracted hundreds of thousands of people to their personal sites, making enough money from AdSense or Blogads to quit their day jobs.

I basically gave up socializing, and I had to quit two jobs in a row — I was a marketer for a nonprofit and then a director of social services — because I had so many days I couldn't make it to work.

Two blonde - haired, drop - dead gorgeous BFFs quit their day jobs to make and deliver organic, wholesome vegetable - based meals straight to your doorstep.

Three posts I've loved reading this week:: Sophie's amazing post about how she quit her day job -LCB- & made running one of my all - time favourite jewellery shops her full - time business! -RCB-

Beating expectations and rising above challenges is the stuff that the literary greats write about, that the best romances are made of and the kind of stuff that catapults people to quit their day jobs and really live their dreams.

Makes me want to quit my day job and go home and decorate with my Tudgie Wudgie!

The WOOL OMNIBUS was selling well enough for me to quit my day job and make a go of it as a full - time author, while at the same time, major publishers were making incredible offers for the rights to my book.

The literary world is littered with excellent novelists who've delivered 3 - 4 books to trad publishers, and still haven't made enough money to quit the day job.

So, if I've published books but am not making enough money to quit my day job, I'm a plain old writer, not a professional author, right?

You can get a pretty general feel for your income and when you can make moves, or how many books you need to write, or when to quit (or get) a day job.

Arlene Prunkl quit her day job in January because, after three years of shaping, honing and polishing manuscripts for self - publishing authors in her spare time, she found she had enough business to make a career of it.

Kelly will be teaching «Authors Don't Preach — But Their Characters Might» and «Making Your Dreams Come True... Without Quitting Your Day Job» at Mount Hermon Writers Conference.

She's 26 and is now making enough money to quit her day job and become a full time writer, in fact she's a millionaire.

In your quest to get your manuscript written, edited, and just done, make sure that you're not rushing so much that you lose sight of the long - term skills needed to be a successful, full - time author — as in, an author who can make enough money from book sales to quit her day job and write for a living.

I'm not saying that you will be — or even that you should be — part of that 2 % of bloggers who quit their day jobs and make a living through their blogging.

Being able to quit my day job to write was a clear indication to me that I could publish on my own (thus retaining control of my books from start to finish) and still gain enough readers to make it a career.

I still do book signings, my books can be found on the selves of Barnes and Noble, I sold my translation rights, I'm an Amazon Mover and Shaker (twice), I've won awards such as eFestival of Words AND The Next Generation Indie Awards, not to mention I have an amazing STREET TEAM of over 350 avid readers, plus I make more money in one month that I can quit my day job as a child therapist.....

I never wanted to quit my day job anyway, but my author income certainly won't make it happen.

She hasn't quit her day job yet, but it sounds like she's getting close to making «professional income.»

Sure, we hope we'll get paid for it, that we'll eventually make enough money to quit whatever asinine evil day job is trying to destroy our creativity like a cancer (or maybe that's just me).

Thank God for the Affordable Healthcare Act — and you had better believe that made a huge impact on my being able to do this because when I quit my day job to pursue writing full - time, he was on Medicare and I knew I could get insurance after the Cobra ran out, despite my pre-existing conditions — and at an affordable rate starting this year.

I quit a job as a meteorologist when I started making decent money with my writing, and now my husband is retired — BECAUSE I make enough to support both of us, which is more money than either of us made from our day jobs together.

My day job still brings in more income than my writing and I won't quit until my writing can bring in what I make at the day job.

By 2012, I was making enough to quit the day job, and by the time I was doing my taxes for 2013, I realized I was making more as an author than I ever had in any of my previous professions.

If you are serious about becoming a successful writer, about finally being able to quit that dead - end day job you hate and make a living doing what you love, then you have to think of it as a business.

Once that divide is leaped, it's much easier to make enough from writing to quit the day job and write full time.

Yet more and more indie sf writers are starting to make enough from their writing to consider quitting their day jobs.

Working in a senior - level position in a high - tech industry, I would likely need a breakthrough novel or best - seller to make enough to quit my day job.

I know these numbers can be disheartening, and they make it easy to see why agents and publishers tell you not to quit your day job.

Interestingly, ComicsAccelerator will also offer a «reserve funding» option to let creators choose two different levels of funding, one just what they need to make the comic and one that would allow them to quit the day job and work on the project full time.

One day, the dam broke open and I was faced with a choice I was happy to make: Quit my job and jump full force into being a freelancer OR Keep my... Read more →

Beyond that, as I alluded to in the opening, there's sort of been a new expectation / conventional wisdom creeping up that the key to being a Good Hardworking Promoting Author is to blow out your blog, your Facebook page, your website, your Twitter feed, your Goodreads network, and better yet, all of the above and by the way you need to set up your own author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family please?

But as far as feeling like you've «made it» and you're ready to quit your day job, it's more important to cultivate your 1,000 true fans than have a good sales month here or there (as many who've been there can tell you, success can be fleeting if it came as a fluke and you didn't take advantage of it by turning casual readers into true fans).

One disclosed to me that he'd need to be in the upper tier of authors to consider quitting his day job because he and his family are used to making a certain amount of money.

«Six months ago people were quitting their day job, convinced they could make a career out of writing,» said Bob Mayer, an e-book consultant and publisher who has written 50 books.

I made more my first month self - publishing than I had at the day job [which I've long since quit]; and my fifth month, I made 7.5 times more.

Travis recently quit his day job and is attempting to make a full time living through trading his own account.

The term passive income is thrown around a lot these days considering the new American Dream is essentially to quit your job and be able to work from home and make a nice living from your living room.

I don't drive as much since I quit my job, but I still drive every day to take my son to daycare and pick him up, along with making trips around town.