What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?
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I quit looking for full time work in NYC based magazine industry (and writing in general) and went back to decking on tug boats after spending 2.5 years as a freelance researcher making a lot of contacts. I think I really needed to have steady money and time off
What happened to that branch of your life (the magazine writing)? Did you circle back to it, or onto other things? (Or tbd...?)
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I still identify as a “writer,” fwiw. But there was something unbalanced and utterly joy killing in the way I went about it. I’m sure I’d feel more “whole” if I were actively publishing but it wouldn’t be worth it without a change that isn’t yet present
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(Just now writing this last tweet I snapped at my wife for “Unterrupting me while I’m trying to write!!”)
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I haven’t published anything since 2010 and I’m fine with that (though there are some local/family history things I’d like to finish for a local penny saver that I believe would make my elderly mother and her siblings happy to read.)
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