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    When to Quit Your Day Job
    When to Quit Your Day Job
    When to Quit Your Day Job
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    When to Quit Your Day Job

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book.

    The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day job too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. A step-by-step survival guide to the decisions you need to make to become and stay a freelancer in any business.

    Award-winning, bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has published books under many names and in many genres. She has owned several businesses, and has worked for herself for more than thirty years.

    If you found this section of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s The Freelancer’s Survival Guide helpful, you might want these short books as well:

    Getting Started
    Goals and Dreams
    How To Make Money
    How To Negotiate Anything
    Networking in Person And Online
    The Secrets of Success
    Time Management
    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJul 13, 2010
    ISBN9781452362724
    When to Quit Your Day Job
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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      When to Quit Your Day Job - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day job too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. And some should return to a day job for a few years while they fine-tune their business. This short book is a step-by-step survival guide to the decisions you need to make to become and stay a freelancer in any business.

      When to Quit Your Day Job

      A Freelancer’s Survival Guide Short Book

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Copyright Information

      Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      First published in 2009 in a slightly different version on kristinekathrynrusch.com.

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Layout and design © copyright 2012 WMG Publishing

      Cover art © copyright Spaceheater/Dreamstime

      Smashwords Edition

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved.

      This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      List of all the

      Freelancer’s Survival Guide

      Short Books

      When to Quit Your Day Job

      Getting Started

      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

      Goals and Dreams

      How to Negotiate Anything

      The Secrets of Success

      How to Make Money

      Networking in Person and Online

      Time Management

      When to Quit Your Day Job

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      When To Give Up Your Day Job

      Things You Need Before You Quit Your Day Job

      When To Return To Your Day Job

      About the Author

      Copyright Information

      Introduction

      The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day jobs too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. And some should return to a day job for a few years while they fine-tune their businesses.

      I’ve taken three posts from my Freelancer’s Survival Guide blog and combined them into this book. The posts did not run consecutively. I learned, as I started the Guide, that trying to write the blog like I would write a book wouldn’t work.

      But it has always been my intention to write the book, which means that I have to organize it. I’m organizing it now, and as I organize it, I realized that it can be neatly divided into sections. If you’re like me, sometimes one section has all the answers you need. The rest of the book is superfluous.

      This short book is one small part of the Guide. You can find other sections as individual books. If you want the entire Guide, the entire book (with parts that were not published individually) is available in print and e-book formats. Or you can read the

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