Well, I hope for you that you do find that exit door.

I'll be the first to admit that my first break with Korporate Amerika was scary, especially from the perspective that I was voluntarily agreeing to pretty much a 70% pay cut. Being independent has been hard as hell sometimes, but I haven't regretted it. If I have ANY regrets at all, it might be that I don't have 20 more years of having paid into a 401-K. But so it goes.

I'm a writer, and an artist, and an independent thinker. We're doing the things that create some degree of freedom...