For Lent I gave up listening to business-related podcasts. I only listen to a few, but I could feel that all that business talk was affecting my work. I wanted to clear out the business brain and focus on what was at hand, both for my work life and personally. Let me begin by clarifying what I mean by work. I have one primary part-time work-at-home job as a researcher and writer. I also take portraits, do some real estate photography, and sell stock photographs through my business, and my …
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Today, I Am a _________________________
Not long ago, I heard someone speaking about how they had seen business cards that read "Today, I Am a ________________." Then, the business card owner would fill in the blank appropriately before handing out the card. Sometimes it would say writer or blogger or food photographer, reflective of a person with a hybrid career, one cobbled together among many vocations, one a bit more difficult to explain than "freelancer". When I heard that, I thought, 'I need a card like that!' Because I'm …