Writing Whilst Holding Down a Full Time Job

How I managed to juggle the rat race and literary ambitions

Simon Dillon
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJan 15, 2022

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Photo by Yi Liu on Unsplash

In August 2020, I took voluntary redundancy from a staff job I’d had in television for over twenty years. It was a difficult decision, made in an exceptionally tough set of circumstances, complicated by a global pandemic. Nonetheless, it was the right time to leave for all sorts of reasons…

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com