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Originally Posted by fountainAtlas  As an answer to the original poster, why can’t you write a book in your spare time? Unless you want to open a retail store there are few reasons why you can’t try a business in your spare time. Also, doing it like this doesn’t sacrifice the health and future of your children. |
Don't worry about that: I don't have kids and I'm not planning on getting pregnant in this lifetime. Those lil' buggers are expensive and unless I write the new Harry Potter, it will be hard enough to support myself. Very few people get rich from writing children's books.
I can write a book in my spare time (I'm working on a book right now
), but if there is a way I can survive without a job (and with my health and sanity intact), I'm all for it! I'm just curious how it might be done. I hear stories (or read them in the newspaper) all the time about people who are fed up with their jobs, leave just like that and build their own business/become famous singers/stuff like that. You can make good money from your own business or as a popstar, but it takes
a lot of
no-halfassing-full-time dedication (so you will have to quit your job or find a way to survive on five minutes of sleep per week) if you REALLY want to make it big. And when you are succesfull, it will still take some time before your work pays off. Enter the limbo.
These are the ways I think it can be done:
- save up money first, so you can survive without additional income: this means you can't quit your job right away.
- have someone support you: not an option for everyone, possible moral objections, risk of the supporter cutting off the cashflow.
Anyone else have a briliant suggestion?
