Sentences with phrase «quitting their day jobs as»

In April, Sandow quit his day job as a manager at a pharmaceutical company to concentrate full - time on RxList, which he expects to pull in $ 500,000 in sales this year.

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.....

So, if you're going into authorship with an expectation of being able to quit your day job as soon as your first book is in print, you're going to be disappointed and that's true whether you're self publishing or the mainstream route.

Some are even quitting their day jobs as lawyers to become legal tech entrepreneurs.

Bellevue, WA About Blog Eastshade Studios was founded in December 2013 when Danny quit his day job as a 3D environment artist in triple - A games to build a weird world (Eastshade).

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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.

She does a lot of public speaking, and earlier this year starred in the Oxygen series Quit Your Day Job, a reality - type program that documented her and three friends as they invested in and mentored young entrepreneurs.

«Don't quit your day job,» Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the most iconic Sharks on Shark Tank, told Inc.com recently, recounting that for the first five years he ran his company, he was supporting himself by working full - time as a waiter at Red Lobster.

Bundesen was able to quit her job as a server at Red Lobster just days after her cat's picture was first uploaded to Reddit, and said «the phone simply hasn't stopped ringing since.»

Don't quit your day job if you think investors will drive over the cash you need as soon as they hear about your startup.

Earlier this week, Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter, and the president appointed Larry Kudlow as his top economic advisor days after Gary Cohn quit the job.

At the end of the day, belief in either theory does not cause you to quit your job and sell your stuff and live as a wanderer for the remainder of your days.

From quitting your job to become a SAHM to owning your stay - at - home motherhood, you'll be as ready as possible for your days in the trenches of at - home parenting.

So what do you do on those days when you feel as if you want to quit being a stay - at - home mom because a full - time job with a boss breathing down your neck would still be much easier?

After quitting his job as a Buffalo cop earlier in the day, John Cirulli pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of misdemeanor civil rights violations for attacking a handcuffed man who had been arrested April 19.

PMI Health Coaching School is THE ONLY school that allows you to become an internationally certified and accredited health coach in as little as 30 days, allowing you to finally quit your dead end job and create a 6 figure coaching business.

So I decided to take nutrition from hobby to career, quit my job in finance, and now I work full time as a Health Coach, while continuing to grow my knowledge base in nutrition every day.

About the Author: Christie Hall began teaching yoga in 1997, but didn't quit her «day job» as a night newspaper editor until 2004.

At that point I quit my job as a TV producer, and started Three Day Rule, the matchmaking service.

By 1929, Fitzgerald felt secure enough as an actor to finally quit his day job with Unemployment Insurance; that same year, he briefly roomed with playwright Sean O'Casey, who subsequently wrote The Silver Tassle especially for Fitzgerald.

With dialogue as stilted and awkward as his direction and performance, Modine scores the humbling hat trick of failing in the most public way possible in his chosen profession and then on a pair of skylarking diversions that suggest that Modine should probably not quit his day job, even though he has been muddling around on his day job.

This is why, when The Passive Voice posted its ever - popular «Who Quit Their Day Job» thread and I asked questions like, «So how much do you keep as an emergency fund?

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.

Another author said «I had pretty much quit my day job to get a Master's Degree, but knew I'd have to go back to work as soon as I was done with classes.

It may not happen as fast as I'd like (i.e. by the end of this year), but I fully believe that I will be quitting my evil day job in the next 3 years.

He's very hopeful about the future of ebooks, but warns that «doing much much better with ebooks» is not the same as «ready to quit the day job.»

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.

It's also perhaps not the worst part of Milo's day, as a senior editor from Breitbart News has also stated in an interview that high - level members of the company are ready to quit their jobs if Yiannopoulos isn't terminated immediately.

A year later, with four novels out and some shorter works as well, I was able to quit the day job and write full time.

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.

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.

That led to his creation of the site now known as eReaderIQ, and in September of last year its growth enabled him to quit his day job at the insurance company.

We think of my writing and our publishing as an investment in our retirement, not as a «quit the day job» endeavor.

Indie authors have been able to quit their day jobs and work as writers full time.

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?

Between the day job that quite literally sucks the life out of me, other responsibilities, and taking classes on web design that are kicking my tail but hopefully will benefit me both as a writer and potentially in the form of a new / better day job, I have plenty of reasons to be stressed to the point of throwing up my hands and quitting.

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).

As someone who was able to quit my day job from kindle publishing royalties, I can say this a legitimate business and the way of the future.

An end note: As all hybrid or Indie authors wonder about quitting the day - job and writing full - time, I asked that of Chris and her answer is put together perfectly on her blog Simply Stick.

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.

But as you probably guessed from this story so far, I still have student loans and have already quit my day job.

«Retirement» is upheld as such a wonderful, ubiquitous goal because it's equated with total fiancial freedom: you can quit your job and do whatever you want, be it start a business, spend time with family, travel the world, volunteer, or just hang out in your fishing boat for 6 hours a day.

As we love to travel and experience new things and are not at all tied to our possessions we made a decision to sell everything, quit our day jobs and create a location independent life and income.

The day after she decided to quit her job as she thought that «it couldn't get much better this», and she moved to Egypt and changed career to Scuba Diving!

, pushed me to quit my day job and try my luck as a game developer.»

I questioned the wisdom of writing this, since as of yet, I've not released a highly successful game as an independent developer since quitting my day job back in April.

My guest on the podcast this week is Joyce Kettering, a composer who became so successful licensing her music that she did the thing that so many dream about — she was able to quit a very good day job as a financial auditor and just dedicate herself to music.

As such, they may leave their jobs in two ways: go home and never show up the following day or quit their jobs professionally by writing job termination letters.

300k as a one time lump sum is not enough for many of us to quit a day job.