🕹️ The Year of the Creators
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The story 🎒: Creating alongside your full-time job.
Small ideas 💡: Part-time creator ideas to ponder.
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Stories of the week: A selection of my best stories this week.
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THE STORY
Creating Alongside Your Full-Time Job is the Cheat code
The new creator economy of 2023
2023 the year of the creator
But not in the way you think.
Not the creators that want to get rich and famous. Not those seeking validation from external sources. 2023 will be the year for those who have got something to say and have the courage to say it.
The cool club
Back in the day, people used to get excited by salaries, the Rolex flex and status. Some people would take out a loan to buy a car they didn’t need to impress people they didn’t like. It was all gravy until 2020 when the pandemic put things in perspective.
2020 reality check…
…the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world with a bang. All of a sudden many of us were forced inside, to spend time with our families, and to work from home. It meant no rush-hour traffic, no stale lunches, little office chatter and more time at home.
It leads to a new way of thinking
As the months crept into years, people started getting used to this way of life. More time and less stress became a lifestyle. It became something to hold on to. We switched to social media and saw people all over the world making a different kind of life for themselves.
Dan Koe built a business advising other creators.
Dakota Robertson creating a Twitter ghostwriting agency.
This new world of opportunity opened up but not one was about more hours, more status, or more pay. One about something much more admirable.
The time wealth
The pandemic made us realise that life is short. The digital creator economy made us realise that opportunity is vast.
In 2023, I predict that everyone with a day job will start to create on the internet. They’ll do it to creatively fulfil themselves and to put a little extra in their pocket. Not for the fancy things, oh no. For time.
They’ll go down to 3-days a week and create on the side.
They’ll create a lifestyle for themselves.
Small ideas:
If you give everything away for free, at least at some point, are you freeing yourself from expectation and reward?
Imagine if you could genuinely just play for the love of the game.
Things taste sweeter after difficulty.
Stories 📚
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Around the web 🌍
Lewis Capaldi shares Shell Rowe’s story.
Love your style, I will be following you more closely, just getting started, wanting to learn all I can with
the help of creators like yourself. Thank you. Ron Wilson
Nicely laid out and written Eve. It's a great title PTCC. Like that you included your Medium articles and links. I clicked and read them. Keeps traffic moving across your distribution chain. 🚀