6 Reasons Why I Gave Up the Security of a Stable Career for the Unstable Writer's Life

Anyone who tells you being a writer is a secure occupation is lying. The last thing my parents wanted to hear 38 years ago, is that I planned on becoming a full-time writer. This was a especially hard on them since, up to that time, I’d been groomed to take over a family commercial construction business. While I would have been the third generation to e…