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Job/day job?

JenJen
edited March 2017 in Writing
I don't know if there is a post about this, sorry if there is. I'm just always curious as to what people do for a living. Mainly because I've been trying to change my job for years to no avail.

Feel free to boast if you're a full time writer- I'm not sure who is or isn't?

I work in retail- a discount book shop to be precise. Have done since I left school at 18 directionless. (Short version of a longer story). It's part time but last Xmas I worked mostly 30+ hours a week. Out of time shopping centre so no 9-5 sadly. I dream of 9-5, when I'm not dreaming of writing full time (10-8). No set hours. But the people I work with a mostly great.

You?

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  • kadokado
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  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
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    Would-be writer.
  • KeithKeith
    edited March 2017
    Former social worker. Gave up work to write full time.

  • LizLiz
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  • PaigeElizabethTurnerPaigeElizabethTurner
    Former lots of things. Now write full time (heavily subsidised by savings) but am making way with freelance ventures and slow-starting book sales.
  • CarolCarol
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  • DawnehDawneh
    I work for a security firm full time - and dream of being a professional writer :)
  • EddisburyEddisbury
    Methodist minister - part time for the few years before retiring, during which I wrote and published my debut novel. Since then I think of myself as a full time writer rather than as retired.
  • heatherheather
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  • jennybgoodjennybgood
    I am a psychotherapist in the good old NHS. I work full time so often find it hard to squeeze in writing time, especially as my job takes up a lot of 'brain power' and can leave me quite drained.
  • doradora
    A former idlist, I upped my game and became a loafer. Currently rushed off my feet with ambition to reach dizzy heights of a waster.

    Don't get me started on what my night-time job is.
  • datco2014datco2014
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  • LizyLizy
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  • snailmalesnailmale
    Full-time Pensioner/Procrastinator
  • IceniIceni
    Retired. Last job was H.R. administrator. Had numerous admin/secretarial jobs over the years, including temping. Was cashier at Iceland for a year and 8 months. Started writing seriously 35+ years ago. My only work to be published was in the school magazine.
  • Lou TreleavenLou Treleaven
    Mostly writer, followed by critique service provider, teacher of arts and crafts courses and pet portrait artist.
  • KramerKramer
    Own business. Signs, vehicle graphics, graphic design. etc

    www.kramersdesigns.co.uk
  • goodsuspectgoodsuspect
    Teacher.
  • scubadiverscubadiver
    I've been in the public sector since 2009 - data analyst.
  • ClaudiaClaudia
    I 'retired' at 45 when we sold up our business and went vagabonding. This was when I started selling travel articles. I've pretty much stopped writing articles in favour of short fiction and my non-fiction 'memoir' about Fiji. Like Heather, I don't write full time and it's never been a living.


  • NephNeph
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  • cheshirecheesecheshirecheese
    Stuck in indentured servitude to my mortgage with little hope of buying my freedom before time.
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  • LizyLizy
    Natural History Museum? Lucky thing!
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  • SalCSalC
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