{"id":842,"date":"2019-07-12T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-07-12T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:04:38","slug":"goodbye-salary-hello-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/goodbye-salary-hello-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Salary, Hello Freedom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1360\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1360\" src=\"https:\/\/thetwofingers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1-1536x1125.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Books-1-scaled-1-2048x1500.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo &#8211; author&#8217;s own<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On 1st August 2019,\u00a0 I\u2019m leaving the world of employment to set up a freelance sales agency. Combining over thirty years of sales experience with a passion for writing, I also have ambitions to become a copywriter. As part of my\u00a0master plan, I\u2019m now in the middle of a Copywriting Diploma.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember4610\" class=\"ember-view\">I owe a debt of gratitude to <\/span><span id=\"ember4610\" class=\"ember-view\"><span class=\"pwa-mark pwa-mark-done\" data-pwa-id=\"pwa-9ED78353575365D3359528E4DD92DA1F\" data-pwa-rule-id=\"SIMPLE_SPELLING\" data-pwa-category=\"spelling\" data-pwa-hint=\"Incorrect named entity spelling: Mark Manson\" data-pwa-suggestions=\"Mark Hanson~Mark Mason\" data-pwa-heavy=\"false\" data-pwa-dictionary-word=\"Mark Manson\">Mark Manson<\/span><\/span><span id=\"ember4610\" class=\"ember-view\">, Geoff Burch<\/span><span id=\"ember4618\" class=\"ember-view\">, Roger <\/span><span id=\"ember4618\" class=\"ember-view\"><span class=\"pwa-mark pwa-mark-done\" data-pwa-id=\"pwa-DD4AEAA91C957EECB361F05A389C8013\" data-pwa-rule-id=\"SIMPLE_SPELLING\" data-pwa-category=\"spelling\" data-pwa-hint=\"Unknown word: Horberry\" data-pwa-suggestions=\"Lorberry~Holberry~Herbert~Harbour~Herrera\" data-pwa-heavy=\"false\" data-pwa-dictionary-word=\"Horberry\">Horberry<\/span><\/span><span id=\"ember4618\" class=\"ember-view\"> &amp; Gyles Lingwood, Tom Albrighton, William Zinsser, Strunk &amp; White, Dan Ariely, Mish Slade, Dave Trott and Glenn Fisher<\/span><span id=\"ember4666\" class=\"ember-view\"> (among others) for their inspiration and insights over the past few months. They have been great companions and have joined me during lunch breaks; on planes, trains &amp; automobiles; in the garden; on the beach; at the dinner table and even in bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Between them, this talented bunch has written some exceptional books (pictured), several of which I am now reading for the umpteenth time. (Apparently, all highly successful, wealthy, intelligent and handsome people read a lot. I know this is true, as I\u2019m the exception that proves the rule).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have a question for you: if you could recommend just one relevant book, website, blog etc, to inspire, enlighten or educate me, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On 1st August 2019,\u00a0 I\u2019m leaving the world of employment to set up a freelance sales agency. Combining over thirty years of sales experience with a passion for writing, I also have ambitions to become a copywriter. As part of my\u00a0master plan, I\u2019m now in the middle of a Copywriting Diploma. I owe a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,166,182,194,275,281,291,425,464,573,643,748,789],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copywriter","tag-copywriting","tag-dan-ariely","tag-dave-trott","tag-geoff-burch","tag-glenn-fisher","tag-gyles-lingwood","tag-mark-manson","tag-mish-slade","tag-roger-horberry","tag-strunk-white","tag-tom-albrighton","tag-william-zinsser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theacousticeggbox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}