
Find a day-job you love, and stick with it.
As we near the end of Writing With A Day-Job Week, that's some of the simplest, best advice anybody can give you. But don't take my word for it.
Earlier this year we spoke with Rachel Fershleiser who works at Housing Works Bookstore Café. You can see her day-job workplace in the background of my video feature that I embedded in this post.
While working there, she helped co-edit the new six-word memoir collection, Not Quite What I Was Planning--having a day-job she loved gave her the free headspace to edit for Smith Magazine and work on her projects. Check it out:
"Some days I catch up on e-mails straight through my day-job lunch break and realize several hours later I’ve forgotten to eat. One thing that does work out for me is that I absolutely love my day job, at the amazing non-profit Housing Works Bookstore Café. A lot of my coworkers are writers and very supportive."




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