Great to hear your story. My job now too doesn’t feel like a job (i work online for a holistic marketing guru and I love him so!) and I’m happy to see another being making money out of soemthing he enjoys!
More luck to you!
Liberty&Joy!
How I did it: I was running an electronic music website and promoting weekly nights at a local nightclub, and I wanted to document it in photographs, so I started bringing my camera. Soon, other people were hiring me to shoot for them. When I started making more money at that than my day job, I took the plunge.
Lessons & tips: The hardest part was figuring out what I really wanted to do. I always thought it would be music related - it never occurred to me that my old highschool hobby would take over my life and turn into a dream career.
Find something you're passionate about, then make the time to go out and do it. It has to be a priority, or it will always be on the back burner and you'll always be a slave to the daily grind.
Resources: The book, "Successful Self Promotion for Photographers" was the single biggest inspiration and help.
Great to hear your story. My job now too doesn’t feel like a job (i work online for a holistic marketing guru and I love him so!) and I’m happy to see another being making money out of soemthing he enjoys!
More luck to you!
Liberty&Joy!