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Mikala Jamison's avatar

Phew, love it all. I did the full-time journo job for years (I was lucky) then quit when a horrific nonprofit newsroom boss drove me into the arms of corporate comms writing because I needed some other writing job, any job (nonprofits...never again).

Best decision I ever made. I have a job where I write boring stuff and edit boring stuff and I WFH and have work-life balance and steady paychecks and don't think about work when I'm not working. It gave me the emotional space and actual time to write on the side. But as you said, freelancing was/is a hellscape. Still do it sometimes, but decided to just take to Substack and do shit on my own terms. There, too, I had to accept I would occasionally be writing for exactly nobody. Persisting despite that reality leads me to believe I must still love the craft, so I'm glad.

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Taylor Lorenz's avatar

Extremely good piece

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