<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org" target="_blank">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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in case you missed my post on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org" target="_blank">blogs.perl.org</a>, see:<br>
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html</a><br>
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(short URL - <a href="http://xrl.us/bonezw" target="_blank">http://xrl.us/bonezw</a> ).<br>
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Reading from it:<br>
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I'd like to make an announcement: after some serious thought, I decided that<br>
from now on, being a software developer (which I am not too bad at) will only<br>
be the means (but the absolutely necessary ones) to me being a writer /<br>
entertainer / philosopher / Internet celebrity (a little bit of all those and<br>
then some) whose main pride and passion is his personal web site, which is full<br>
of a lot of material, and various pages and material is constantly added to it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nice move Shlomi, but as a writer (with 2 books published in print and 4 as EPUBS) I can say that I prefer to keep doing it as a hobby and not as my day job.</div><div>If I had made writing my day job (which is something I wanted few years ago), I'd be forced to be commercial and write about what people really want to read or the way people like to read.</div>
<div>These days I started to make my living connected to writing but not directly from writing. I now make my living from digital books consulting and services and still work as a software consultant.</div><div><br></div>
<div>-- </div><div>Ori Idan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>