Sentences with phrase «say quitting your day job»

Given the slow motion train wreck that publishing seems to be right now, I'd say quitting your day job to write full time might be... risky.

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Then Kallinis called them both the following day to say she had just quit her job.

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.»

Campaigning to keep his job, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said he had no intention of quitting despite blistering findings of travel abuses connected to his 11 - day trip to Europe.

WASHINGTON — Campaigning to keep his job, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Tuesday he had no intention of quitting despite blistering findings of travel abuses connected to his 11 - day trip to Europe.

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.

«What we did in this budget was identify the areas where the pain that was proposed was simply too deep,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who cited classes so big kids couldn't learn and parents who would be forced to quit their jobs because of day care cuts.

But «for the first few years, don't quit your day job,» he says.

«I quit my day job to do this,» said David Goss.

«We had the fun moment where we got to call Andy and say «Hey, your life is about to change, you can quit your day job,» Goddard revealed.

I'm not saying the goal is to find online friends to give you money so you can write full time and quit that soul - sucking day job (though that is certainly the end goal).

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.

There's nothing in the rules that says you can't earn money from the content you're putting up on the web every day (that was my day job — with a home improvement blog — before I quit to write fantasy full time).

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.

I don't know how the book got around to them, but five months later, said editor was there in my inbox, offering me the deal that has since allowed me to write a second book, quit my day job, and start planning for three more.

It doesn't say that all the writers on the list have quit their day jobs.

Sure, if you go trad you'll get a big fat check so you'll be able to quit your day job and spend some quality time with the ol' muse... oh, wait, no; if you win Slush Pile Lotto, your prize is one third of a pretty mediocre check that may pay a month or two of rent during the six months before the book is done and you get the second third of said check.

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.

«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.

«My writing allowed me to quit my day job,» he says.

«We quit our well paying day jobs in VFX to pursue our dreams of owning our own company and creating beautiful and unique works of art,» said Brandi.

In his blog post «Defining «Success» in the Modern Day Work Flow», Greg Lambert defines sums up what we should aim for: lawyers who say «If you take this [service] away from me, I will quit my job.

You know that saying «don't quit your day job?»