I have a job in project management, and it pays well, but I fricking hate it. I've always enjoyed writing. Should I try to change careers despite my STEM degree, or is professional writing a dead end these days? I'd honestly be fine with any sort of writing; copy writing, technical writing, script writing, legal writing, etc.
Side question #1: is there money in ghost writing? How do I break into this?
Side question #2: am I overlooking how my current job could supplement writing on the side? Thoughts?
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Picture this: you are writing an endless stream of filler content for shitty websites, and getting paid very little to do it. Does that sound appealing? Collect your paycheck from your fake email job and write something you actually want to write in your free time
Just write in your spare time until you have something solid.
Keep your wage cuck job, you'll need it, be self disciplined and write a few pages every day in your spare time. Keep it up until you have something worthwhile to show a publisher.
No and for these journeyman purposes AI is more than adequate. Paralegal might satisfy, depending on what type of law you're doing; but that's a wildly over filled field and won't pay well either. Do what you do, solicit within your company for something along the lines you're looking for.
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You'd be an idiot to step down from a position like that op
Unless you have a soul
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Is there a point in having a well paying job when it doesn't bring me happiness or a girlfriend?
getting a girlfriend isnt dependent on your job,hell its even not just dependent on who you are as a person but more about meeting a person compatible with you.
>someone who hasn't struggled with starving or homelessness before
Yeah. You don’t have a choice anymore. Either you have a job that pays a satisfactory amount or you’re homeless. You can’t even get an apartment without proof of 4xrent income now.
Ted Chang worked full time as a technical writer while writing the best science fiction of the last three decades. He probably quit after his massive movie deal, but certainly not before that. If you've got the goods you've got the goods after work.
She's asking for it. There's no sin in raping her.
>sin
how can doing what god programed you to do be a sin anon, god wills it
>God programmed us to eat
>therefore eating is always good
he also programmed us to die so i guess we should all skip to the end and all kill ourselves.
I'm also a PM pushing close to six figures. I look at it this way. My job is a vocation. It pays my bills so I have the money to pursue my interests. So far the former doesn't interfere too much with the latter, so there's no reason to quit.
I think the bigger problem for me is the company I work for rather than the occupation itself. There's very little structure where I am. But, I'm also thinking of moving into product management instead of project. I do tend to prefer to work on products more than with people.
Going by this thread, it seems like I'll be sticking to my day job while writing on the side instead.
I am so glad IQfy was there for you and helped you sort out your work dilemma! You are so smart to ask as community like us! If you have any other concerns however mundane please don’t hesitate to ask!
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Wagie life is going to suck pretty much no matter what you do. You best options are to just do a job that will make you the most money possible so you can escape the quickest or a do nothing job so you can just write while 'working'. Making money from writing is a long shot
> Should I switch to a job deprecated by LLMs
You're a stem grad, figure it out
Just do it on the weekends
Employ 1 of 2 strategies
1) Write what you actually want on the side (novels, non-fiction, whatever) and try to make it with that
2) Do 1 but try transition to technical or copy writing first. If you have a STEM degree, it’s possible to become one of these and more than a handful of good fiction authors worked as one or both of these.