Comments on: Cube free is the way to be: 12 months without a real job https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Mon, 24 May 2010 16:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/#comment-25440 Mon, 24 May 2010 16:22:49 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=9028#comment-25440 I didn’t intend it to be condescending. I usually only condescend about rock & roll and literature.

There are some people who are better suited for day jobs, who find day jobs that click with them. I thought I was one of them for a long long time. Even when I hated it, I kind of loved my job at Hell, Inc. But that was mostly because I loved my co-workers. Getting laid off from Hell, Inc. and having a taste of the cubefree freedom changed my life. I had a kickass job as a Blogger at one of the awesomest places to work on the planet and I was miserable. Freelancing seems to be for me, but it’s not for everyone.

Even when I had a day job, it was writing. That’s all I know how to do. Well that, and being a gas station attendant.

]]> By: Doug https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/#comment-25439 Sun, 23 May 2010 20:44:53 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=9028#comment-25439 I applaud your bravery. I’m not sure whether those of us still in the cubicles are supposed to feel slightly condescended to if we don’t follow your path, or if that’s just inevitable envy (probably the flip side of what you feel when you don’t get a paycheck for a while and we’re smugly content knowing we have one coming in two weeks), but there’s no quibbling with your central thesis: There’s no substitute for finding something that makes you happy.

Personally, I don’t mind having a day job and only writing as a hobby. I know me, and that trying to make a living at it would suck some of the joy out of it. So I have the utmost respect for people who can get past that and still love it. I’m certainly glad to know they’re out there, because the world does need them.

p.s. I always interject a parenthetical “Ack” to designate when I’ve cracked myself up.

]]> By: Peabo https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/#comment-25410 Sun, 16 May 2010 00:34:42 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=9028#comment-25410 Congratulations!! You totally deserve to be Cube Free–and I’m glad that everything worked out for you as it should…quite well 🙂

]]> By: Placemat https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/#comment-25405 Fri, 14 May 2010 19:13:44 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=9028#comment-25405 Congrats. Alas, my balls are not as big as yours. I just ain’t got the guts.

P.S. John Goodman rocks. & Darlene just might be my favorite TV character ever.

]]> By: david https://iwilldare.com/2010/05/cube-free-is-the-way-to-be-12-months-without-a-real-job/#comment-25404 Fri, 14 May 2010 17:21:35 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=9028#comment-25404 Congratulations! As a fellow cube-free worker, I salute you. I agree that working for yourself is wonderful, the last couple of years of blogging and freelancing have been the most fulfilling of my life and given me the time and opportunity to pursue dreams both professional and personal (and yes, people do look at me funny when I go on and on about it).

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