For about seven years my wife and I were stuck in a situation that prevented us from doing anything meaningful. I don't want to go into too much but will share that it was a family member that, in effect, held us hostage by means of manipulation and forced us to work toward her own ends. Nothing illegal, just a terrible person and a narcissist with a mixture of psychotic and sociopathic traits.
We've been free from it for about a year now but are still trying to get our lives sorted out to provide for ourselves with a seven year gap in meaningful job experience.
I have a part time job but I feel that God is strongly calling me to write, so I've been pounding away at finishing a fantasy novel as fast as I can so I can send it to a publisher that I have a working relationship with. It is a quality one that has a wide distribution network that also handle marketing while leaving me with all of the rights and a good share of the sales profit. Only, they charge for the first print run which would be another matter due to novels costing $20K to get started.
My wife felt led to seek employment to take some financial burden off of me and allow me to focus more on writing, but she was just informed that she didn't get what she applied for due to others having more experience.
It's been a rough eight years and I could really use some prayers from my fellow anons as we continue to try to sort things out. Encouragement and helpful advice would also be nice.
Prayers on the way fren.
I would try to get a good job, first and then work on the writing.......
I was working on a job hunt for a while to get out of my part-time job but kept getting the same roadblock of trying to find something that would allow me to apply my skills and experience but couldn't find anything that would be a good match.
I applied to a few things and got as far as the first round interview with one when I felt God prodding me to focus more time on writing. At the same time, my wife felt the prodding to look into a job and get some of the work and life experience that she was denied while growing up.
I have no idea what you skills and expiraces are. When I was 40 I went to trade school to be an aircraft mechanic. It worked out very well for me and I wish I had done it a lot sooner. I could work part time and go to school part time,and they had a lot of free grant money for good students,it cost me almost nothing.
I make 75-100k a year with a lot of vacation and sick time and holidays off,good healthcare......
If you are smart and handy with tools, that might be a good option for you.
I had a round about way of things, going from running a game studio that I was forced to shut down to writing where I've found my calling.
I'm certain this is what He's called me to do, especially as when I prayed and asked him what I should do the answer has come back to just "Write."