Why I (mostly) Stopped Freelancing

And why I am no longer building my business.

Jyssica Schwartz
4 min readFeb 2, 2024
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I’ve shared my journey and story before, but I want to talk about the evolution of my writing and editing career and where I am today.

In 2016, I turned 30 and looked at my career — almost 10 full years in sales and marketing.

It didn’t fulfill me but it DID fill my belly and pay my bills. And there’s nothing wrong with that! I had a successful career in corporate sales and business development. I had good bosses and great coworkers, and I had opportunities to move up in the company.

But I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t enjoying it the way I wanted to.

And I’d always had a not-so-secret dream of being a professional writer.

As a kid, that dream looked more like being a famous author and doing book tours and seeing my books become movies.

As an angst-y teenager, that dream looked more like writing famous songs and emotionally devastating poetry.

But as a 30 year old, that dream looked simply like getting paid for doing my favorite thing — writing.

I’d had a blog since high school and I’d edited papers and resumes for many years, so I had plenty of writing samples and proof I could write.

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Jyssica Schwartz
Jyssica Schwartz

Written by Jyssica Schwartz

Manging editor. entrepreneur, writer, editor, cat lover, weirdo, optimist. Author of “Write. Get Paid. Repeat.” & “Concept to Conclusion.” jyssicaschwartz.com

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