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What do you consider youreself? A novelist with a day-job? A full-time worker with a writing hobby? Or a writer who writes for a living?

As print media jobs disappear and the book industry struggles to enter the 21st Century, it is fantastically difficult to make it as a plain old writer who writes for a living. Most of us--myself included--are writers with a day-job.

Today the literary super-team blog The Millions have a special work-life feature with Megan Hustad (author of the work-help book, How to Be Useful). All week Hustad will be delivering job advice for bookish folk, helping us figure out how to co-exist peacefully with our day-jobs.

That feature inspired me to call this Day-Job Week at The Publishing Spot. To celebrate all the readers who are struggling to write and work at the same time, I'm collecting all the best day-job advice I've found on the site.

In the meantime, the work-coping advice begins here:

"we invite our readers to contribute their own first-job stories (ideally 100 words or less) in the comments box. At the end of the week, perhaps we'll ask Ms. Hustad to respond to one of them."