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quaker bill

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36. A little close to home

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 08:28 PM

Mar 2013

I make art jewelry on nights and weekends. After 6 years, it is starting to really click. I am now getting better invitations to exhibit, and have at least been in the running for awards. It has taken cutting some other things out of life to make room for it. I have been told again and again throughout my life that I should "join the real world" by people I care for. I have always done better when I refused

It is not a matter of "living out my dreams" though. It is hard work, but something I feel at one with. Nothing else I have done feels as natural to me.

I have a plan in place to end the day job and am fully vested in a defined benefit pension from having done it. I like that work too, in what I do there, and that it pays fairly well. I could easily pass on the community I do it in, and will have no regrets at leaving it behind.

The plan now has a timeline and is practicable.

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