career
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3 Reasons Working for Yourself is Harder than Working for Someone Else
It is more challenging to work for yourself in my opinion than someone else. My husband and I both run our own businesses. Here’s why it’s more of a challenge: You Can’t Be Lazy I know, you work for yourself, why can’t you? The truth is that though it’s more freedom, this freedom is a… Continue reading
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Struggling authors, please read.
Originally posted on Author Kyle Perkins: By Kyle Perkins. ? So lately I have heard from a few people that they feel like they should just give up on writing because for whatever reason, they are feeling like it just isn’t worth it anymore. Whether they feel like they aren’t getting enough attention, don’t have… Continue reading
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Resume Writing
This post was prompted by a friend who contacted me because she needed help writing a resume. Before I started fiction writing full time, which I am really only able to do financially because of my husband’s financial support and our collective investment, I was an administrative specialist at a community center. One of my… Continue reading
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Choices
The Story When enrolling in college was one of the most important and exciting times in my life, I couldn’t make it to her office fast enough. I cannot recall her name, only the exciting rush of anxiety that ignited in my heart and up to the creases of my face. She wasn’t anyone… Continue reading
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Why Poets Are Poor
I am NOT your Sonia Sanchez, your Langston Hughes, your James Baldwin or Maya Angelou. In fact, my name may never find itself uttered among the world greats. And I’m fine with that. No, I LOVE that. Not ALL poets are poor, but I think the best ones are. They are the people who still… Continue reading
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