Quit Your Day Job Workbook: Building the DIY Project, Life, and Business of Your Dreams

By Eleanor C. Whitney

A practical guide and comprehensive workbook for starting a creative business. As an artist, dreamer, or thinker, you may be looking for extra support with the practical aspects of entrepreneurship. This workbook helps you create structures to support your vision, clarify what success looks like for you, find the resources you need, and take your next steps. Includes chapters on topics like branding, publicity, fundraising, pricing your goods and services, forming a legal entity, taking on a partner, making the transition to working for yourself full-time, and knowing when to close or change your business. As you work through these helpful, jargon-free exercises, you'll quickly find that the independent, creative life you imagine is within reach. The workbook can be used on its own or as a companion to Eleanor Whitney's book Quit Your Day Job. For anyone who dreams of turning your hobby, craft, art, or passion project into a fulfilling, sustainable career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing LLC
• Release date: Sep 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648410017

Eleanor C. Whitney

Eleanor Whitney is a writer, editor, and content marketer. She is the author of Riot Woman, a collection of feminist essays examining the impact of the Riot Grrrl movement, and Quit Your Day Job, a business workbook for creative people. Throughout her career she has worked to build communities, education programs, and content strategy at museums, art organizations, and tech startups, including the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hailing from Maine, she divides her time between Brooklyn and the Mojave Desert. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens College, a Master’s in Public Administration from Baruch College, and BA in cultural studies from Eugene Lang College. She also enjoys playing guitar, walking around the desert, and lifting heavy things.

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