Can I Quit My Job and Become an Artist?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
I want to quit my job and take the leap and try to write full-time, but the idea is terrifying. Should I do it?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Monday, February 16th. It's President's Day today, and many of you have the day off. So maybe you're listening to this a little bit later. Maybe you are listening to this and it's the day after. But hopefully today, if you do have a day off, you're not diving into your finances, you're just enjoying yourself and thinking about a president you like. Mark, do you have a favorite president? If you say Lincoln, that's just going to be so boring. No, I don't, no, I don't think I have a favorite. I guess I know the most about FDR. Oh, yeah. Well, that's just, you know, you're very into World War II. So that's probably, that's where that comes from. I don't have a favorite either. I think there's good and bad in many of them. And it's nice to have President's Day and just have a day off in February where the markets are closed. So that's what I'm mostly happy about. |
| 1:12.1 | Hey, if you are thinking about your money today and this was the moment where you decided to gather up your tax documents, by the way, for all the organizations who have yet to send me my 1099s, get on it. I can't believe how late they are. It's ridiculous. They're like, oh, no, it's in the U.S. Postal Service and give it 14 days. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm like, well, why don't you FedEx it to me? |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm like, |
| 1:17.6 | well, why don't you FedEx it to me? I'm so angry about this. It drives me crazy every year, |
| 1:22.7 | but so be it. I don't even want to blame the Postal Service. I feel like it's the organizations themselves. They could do it this much more efficiently. Anyway, if you are gathering up your tax documents, get them together, and then maybe get in touch with us because maybe something has come up for you. |
| 1:33.5 | Maybe something in those documents is a spark for an idea you have or a question you have. |
| 1:39.8 | If that's your situation, go to jillunmoney.com. Click the contact us button, write us a note. |
| 1:45.5 | And if you'd like to come on the air live, just check the box. |
| 1:47.7 | Mark will do everything else. |
| 1:49.4 | While you're on the website, check out our subscription service. |
| 1:51.9 | It's called Jill on Money Live. |
| 1:53.9 | That is where you have access to four live webinars over the course of the next 12 months. |
| 1:58.7 | You will also be entitled to the entire |
| 2:01.0 | back catalog of those webinars and bonus audio and video content. It's all $45 for the next |
| 2:07.5 | 12 months. And our upcoming webinar is with the amazing Ed Slot, Thursday, February 26th. We are |
| 2:15.1 | going to do tax planning. Remember, he's a CPA by training. He is an IRA and Roth |
| 2:20.3 | IRA expert. He loves talking about the Medicare planning that all freaks you all out. It goes crazy. |
| 2:27.0 | The Secure Act. All of the new tax provisions, everything that you could think of when it comes to taxes and Roths and retirement, |
| 2:37.2 | Ed's on top of. |
| 2:38.4 | So why don't you join us? |
| 2:40.3 | To join us live, you have to be a member of Jill on Money Live. |
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