Here’s the bummer about quitting your job and following your heart. Your heart doesn’t give you 10+ vacation days every year. Clearly, the freedom to create my own schedule and work from home feels like something of a vacation in and of itself. But at least until I start seeing some substantial income from my [...]
Change can be the scariest thing in the universe. Even – maybe especially – when it’s self-delivered. Choosing to go into unknown territory, to take a giant risk, not knowing where to see yourself in five years can feel like jumping off a cliff. It’s been known to cause nightmares. But it’s also the stuff [...]
It is my pleasure to welcome aboard another “Escape Artist”, Nikki Klecha. Nikki will be guest blogging on the Escape Hatch sharing her experience as an artist who has escaped the 9-5 and is currently pursuing her passions — writing, traveling, acting. I’m sure you will be as inspired by her journey as I have [...]
I’m something of an amateur painter. Only took one class in high school and my technique is for shit, but I enjoy the process. One of the reasons I got into it in the first place, and one of the reasons it continues to fascinate me, is that it’s amazing to me how all of [...]
Alison MacAlpine is an award-winning writer with 12 years of experience in corporate communications and copy writing. Through her company, AM Communications (www.amcommunications.ca), she has delivered a wide range of successful articles, brochures, newsletters, speeches and web sites to clients ranging from magazines and blue-chip corporations to the government. Alison is a sought-after communications consultant [...]
Guest post by Todd Kreisman: I’m out. For seven long years, I was merely a twig in the cuckoo’s nest of corporate America. I would pry my tired eyes open every morning at the crack of dawn (all right, well it was dawn somewhere) and drag my weary body to the office. I would slink [...]
Good morning or good afternoon, wherever you happen to be. Today is an exciting day for me. I am welcoming the first guest blogger to the Escape Hatch. Todd Kreisman is an Escape Artist (the title I give to creative artists who are in the process of or have somehow managed to already escape the [...]
I stumbled upon (no not the social voting site, something I actually stumbled upon) this great article on facebook. An old acquaintance/contact of mine in the entertainment business posted it. Its about a writer who takes a job at Miramax’s front desk to make money to pay the bills while remaining a struggling writer. Not [...]
Susan M. Baker - aka The Escape Hatcher is a Creative Career Consultant who helps people figure out what they really want to be doing, how to make money doing it and then how to get started... she's helping her clients change their lives one dream at a time.