My Work-Job Imbalance Is Killing Me

By Bob Deakin

I work so I can write but if I work too much I can’t write. It’s a lifestyle that doesn’t work, and I don’t enjoy writing about it. My work-job imbalance is killing me.

It doesn’t bother me at work, but it does at home: My job gets in the way of my work.

I’ve been without a job before, which gives me time to write, but not money to spend. Will you pay me to write? I didn’t think so. 

How do Danielle Steel and Stephen King write so much? Even without a job I couldn’t write that much. Are all of their ideas good? How could they be? But people pay them to write. Lots of people.

Life’s funny but sometimes I wish it wasn’t. I write for myself because I enjoy reading it, which is all that matters unless you like money.

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