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M. Louisa Locke's avatar

I loved this post and good for you for pulling it from a venue that didn't appreciate it. One of the key messages my father gave me growing up was not to do as he had, jettisoning his desire to teach in order to take up a middle-management job he hated. I respected why he had done so (the health benefits that really ended up keeping my other alive), but I also knew that he couldn't have been happier when I ended up with a teaching career.

I also know I was fortunate in ending up teaching up as a professor in a community college for an institution that rewarded me for that work, instead of the cut-throat publish or perish 4 year institutions I had taught in previously. But in retirement, when I took up my long deferred dream of writing historical fiction, I was equally fortunate to do this just as self-publishing took off, and that meant that I was able to turn what could have only been a "retirement hobby" into a second rewarding and profitable career.

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Chris Rawle's avatar

A wise woman once told me work is pleasure and pleasure is work.

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