THINGS I WISH I ONLY KNEW WHEN PLANNING MY CAREER

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We can't look back. We have to be sharks, who can't look back because they have no necks. Trust me on this. I did the research. I actually love where I sit right now, minus a few hundred thousand page views a day. We have a great audience, amazing comics, and a real community feel. But it took a long time for this to happen. It took many starts and stops, many thousands of dollars pissed away that I won't ever recover, oodles of failed businesses, abandoned projects and neglected ones galore, and a distinct lack of planning in building my personal, and business goals. So in the first part of an ongoing series, if I knew then what I knew now what would I do different to plan my career:

1 - Focus on a niche and genre. My writing has always been all over the place, which has been beneficial to me as a jack of all trades, but for a long time I was a master of none. Writing everything helped me figure out my voice, how to write, why I write, and what I wa…