How I Traded Classroom Teacher for Freelance Writer in One Year

Carrie Honaker
The Writing Cooperative
14 min readJan 26, 2021

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And you can too with these 8 steps that were key to a smooth transition.

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Changing careers in your 40s is frightening. Giving up a steady paycheck, health insurance, and retirement plan causes terror-induced panic. At least that is what I thought last June when I left my public school teaching position to dip into freelance writing without a degree in…

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Freelance writer who loves eating messy food, drinking spicy tempranillos, and finding the next great dive bar.