Less Drama, More Purpose: When your midlife career change is more of a pivot than a leap

September 17, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

February 2017 — Journal Entry I’ve been getting that weird feeling again. The one I get when things are going to change… Several times throughout my life, I have felt an odd vacancy open up somewhere above my heart that has inevitably signaled an eventual shift. One time in particular had to do with a […]

What it’s really like to quit your day job and freelance write

November 12, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

By Amanda Cleary Eastep I spent the first-month anniversary of my full-time freelance writing business on top of a mountain. OK, it’s not Mount Everest. But the symbolism in the act of driving down the winding Blue Ridge Parkway, seeing the seasons change before our eyes in the veins of a trillion leaves, and climbing a slippery slope to […]

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Less Drama, More Purpose: When your midlife career change is more of a pivot than a leap

What it’s really like to quit your day job and freelance write