My Horrible Retail Job Made Me a More Motivated Freelancer

I gave up on myself too quickly, and it came back to bite me. Here’s how I turned things around.

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A few months ago, I wrote about how I was giving up full-time freelancing to work as a full-time bookstore employee while writing on the side. In my head, and I think in the image of this life I painted…