Sentences with phrase «time writing career»

Dave spent 16 years as a commercial litigation attorney and was a partner at a prominent mid-size law firm in Chicago before leaving to pursue a full - time writing career in 2009.

Not everyone can handle a full - time writing career.

From wrongly imprisoned life - saver to self - published Amazon No 1 best - selling author Falsely accused of arson and manslaughter and thrown in a Spanish jail, David P Perlmutter turned real life drama into a full - time writing career following the success of his debut novel «Wrong Place Wrong Time»

Start your full - time writing career.

Even so, there is a catalogue of authors who struck gold with their first book / s then made the jump to a full time writing career.

The topic was called «Writing Around Self Publishing,» and it focused on how I've been able to keep up a full - time writing career without going broke.

How do you balance a full - time writing career with raising three young children?

I couldn't include all of the great content in my print interview, so here's the dish on Giffin's writing process, how she balances a full - time writing career with raising three young children and — gasp — some then «off - the - record» (and now public) details on the upcoming movie version of her debut novel, Something Borrowed.

The world doesn't owe me a full - time writing career, a NYT bestselling series, or a pony.

Midway through the film, we learn about Angelou's eventual turn toward a full - time writing career and about her creative process, which involved legal pads, hotels and a need for solitude.

I transitioned into a full - time writing career and nabbed my first book deal.

Stephen King, who started his full - time writing career with the horror classic, «Carrie,» is now a full - fledged man of letters.

Not exact matches

She drives the final race of her career at the Indy 500 and then will focus full - time on her entrepreneurial goals, (having already written a health and fitness book, launched an apparel line and opened her own vineyard)

And over the course of 7 years, my writing side hustle turned into a new career that earned 10 times more than my day job.

«Lots of folks get cold feet when it comes to taking that needed three - day weekend,» Baer writes before offering common excuses we give ourselves for not taking the time we need to maintain our mental balance — such as fears it will hold back our careers or misguided notions that those with a bit of scheduling flexibility (aka freelancers and entrepreneurs) don't need to take time to themselves in the same way regular employees do.

In 1980, as part of his Harvard reunion, Blankfein wrote that in his «spare time,» he worked «as a tax lawyer, the only career for a real man of action.»

The owner and a couple of the other teachers had asked me a few times if I'd consider teaching, but I kept hemming and hawing because I do have a primary career, which is writing a novel every nine months.

Dan, a Millennial, brings a unique background and experience, ranging from writing New York Times bestselling career books, consulting for Fortune 500 companies, speaking globally on workplace related issues, and appearing regularly on national TV programs as the «voice of the Millennials.»

Now I work 30 hours a week focusing on the parts of my full - time job that I'd always been most excited about: writing career - related content, creating webinars and videos for job seekers, and furthering the public conversation about work flexibility.

«Graduates» first jobs have an inordinate impact on their career path and [lifetime earnings],» wrote Austan Goolsbee, now a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, in The New York Times in 2006.

He began his career in print journalism, and has written for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, WashingtonPost.com, Slate, Politico, National Journal, Governing, and many of the other titles listed above.

In it, the reader mentioned the fact that sometimes she felt insecure about her decision to pursue a family life before a career, explaining how challenging it can be to find time to write amidst the craziness of having young children at home.

We had our first three tinies in four years and then four years after that we added one more baby to the mix right at the time when my writing began to reach more people and my husband's career also became more demanding and we have never been so happy and so tired and so everything all at once.

Shannon Kozee writes for Reject Apathy about working at a nonprofit where she travels most of the time, and offers tips for how other people can find similar careers.

As Cathy's career segued into writing with a focus on preserving, I followed her articles in the New York Times and Washington Post.

As a twenty something trying to follow a still - developing - career path myself, I have not had the time and energy to invest in cookbook writing, but I heartily eat up all you have shared on this adventure!

Nonsense that all of these lazy commentators and fans are already writing the two of them off saying they can not play together — as far as I am aware this is the first time they'll be combining in their careers so what the hell are they all basing this on!!?? haha

In my opinion, Ronaldo has, at time of writing, had a more impressive career than Messi, in that he has been brilliant in two major leagues and often in the face of genuine animosity from opposing players and fans.

Having been born in South Africa and having survived everything from poverty to riots Nirasha, known as Niri, shelved her desire for writing in a turbulent time to pursue a career in software engineering.

Plus, I wrote winning grants that furthered his career, and never took time away from our family — certainly not for pleasure.

As we wrote in The New I Do, Beyonce's prenup supposedly stipulates that she'll get $ 5 million per child for time lost from her career.

I agree with Professor Zhou that the U.S. needs better family policies, but as I wrote in my letter to the editor: «her focus on promoting policies for mothers who pursue full - time careers leaves out mothers as well as fathers who make other choices.

Having many careers in her life, Melissa Crohn is now a high school English teacher and loves to write and journal in her spare time.

After a 13 year full - time public relations / writing career, Jamie K. now has the privilege to be home with her 4 - year - old son and 2 - year - old daughter.

Writing was something I'd always thought about, but given my career in politics, law and public policy, I never really had the time.

Wish I would have thought of doing the research or had come across this blog, had you written it in 2013 when a family court judge saw no value to my being a stay at home mom full time for 9 years and awarded ne no spousal support and a pitiful amount for child support despite my having zero income and no career to go back to once my ex left, suddenly.This is a fantastic template to argue in court for stay at home moms seeking support everywhere that sacrificed their education, career and opportunities and stayed home with the kids.May pop some people's perspective back where it should be!

I'd like to write about John F Kennedy, another leader who was well - respected, but whose political career unfortunately came to an end before its time.

By writing this memoir he is effectively drawing a line under his active political career so it is a natural time for reflection.

«In the NHS currently, the average full time career for those taking a pension is only 18 years and it seems unrealistic to suggest that pension scheme design should be based on the assumption that a predominantly female workforce would need to work full time 48 - year careers in future to receive a full pension,» he wrote.

Pasanella, who owns Pasanella & Son, Vintners in the South Street Seaport, has had a diverse career that includes designing housewares, writing for the New York Times and teaching at Parsons — so a move into politics is not unusual.

Early - career researchers in neuroscience and other biological fields are not adequately aware of the issue, Button writes in her e-mail: «Research methods and statistical inference are key to the current model of bioscience research but their importance is not reflected in the time dedicated to their teaching in undergraduate courses.»

Finding time to write requires the same foresight as taking a well - earned holiday — your career won't stop just because you have.

And more than 1,600 scientists — most of them early - career researchers at UK universities — wrote in a letter to The Times on July 22 that the government should protect scientists by acting to maintain access to EU funding and ensure the free movement of researchers.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

«I've found that quality time is critical for some of my work, such as writing, data analysis, and mathematics,» he tells Science Careers in an e-mail.

In these four cases, the finding of CTE «is probably related to their past prolonged exposure to repetitive head impacts from head - to - player collisions and heading the ball thousands of time throughout their careers,» the authors write.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

Above all, it's an excellent time for a vacation, Rebecca wrote on the Science Careers forum.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

This career stage coincides with the time when many women are considering starting families, and because women tend to be primary carers, they are more likely than men to end their STEM career at this stage,» the authors write.