Writing 9 to 5, what a way to make a living!
I quit my soul-sucking corporate recruitment job back in June last year.
I'd grit my teeth over the last 6 or so years (because momma ain't raise no quitter), but enough was enough.
Honestly, I knew I'd made a mistake by the second week at the London agency I'd stumbled into when returning from teaching English on the Amalfi Coast back in 2017.
Piece of advice for ya...
If your gut is telling you this shyt ain't it?
Get the fack out of Dodge.
Unfortunately, the six months I survived at the London agency (before accepting that I was an idiot for wanting a big-boy corporate job in a filthy city filled with too many people) took its toll.
I had stained my resume with a permanent mark - for the six months after, I could not for the life of me get an interview for anything else. It was recruitment or nothin'. So I decided I'd rather have NUFFIN. I'll tell you the story another day, but that 6 months of Del Boy wheelin' and dealin' to stay afloat while between jobs was... a far cry from the coast of Amalfi, I'll tell you that for free.
But alas, a man's gotta eat, so I eventually had no choice. Once more into the recruitment breach.
I went in a fresh-faced young man, wondering whether I'd just got unlucky at my first recruitment job.
I left a grizzled and jaded husk of a man who has PTSD at the mere thought of a cold call.
I'd love to tell you that I left to go all in on my biz, but I'd be lyin'. I had a great, consistent client supplementing my salary, but not enough to live on.
But when it's time to go, it's time to go. I quit with only faint whisperings of a potential new job on the horizon through a colleague, and a pocketful of schmeckles to tide me over.
There comes a time in every man's life when he's had enough.
And I'd had enough.
And as is always the case in life... when you start to move with intention towards your true path, the universe provides.
I've now been writing for a living 9-5 for the past year, and oh boy, is it a different game to how them boyz are doing it over on Money Twitter!
But much of the wisdom I've inhaled learning at the feet of some of the legends I've had the luck and privilege of discovering thanks to Money Twitter has stood me in good stead when writing corporate copy.
Hell, the client work I managed to get under my belt from Money Twitter is part of the reason I managed to land the gig!
So if you're like me and know that Money Twitter is your way out of that wretched 9-5 you loathe, but your Gumroad products are gathering dust, your sales page launches have you checking for Stripe notifications that never come...
You can call in reinforcements from one who has seen both sides... both MT and corporate... and knows their ways.
Here's the link:
James Perkins
