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Be Your Own Boss
When I started my own business in my 40s, I admit it was scary, and it took a few years to get my income back to where it had been previously. But guess what? The psychic and emotional rewards of being my own boss and controlling my schedule are impossible even today to put a dollar figure on. They are priceless.
Being in charge of whom I work for and when and where is a dream. It’s empowering and liberating. I can still remember my last in-house job and that horrible feeling of being trapped, resentful of not being allowed to write stories that were my ideas because they weren’t in my “beat.” I had to drag myself to the office to even get there by 10 a.m.
It was a cacophony in the enormous newsroom with no buffering walls ...
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