I’m a dreamer who has worked as a ghostwriter, social media manager, proofreader, editor, website developer, occasional SEO strategist, and project manager.
Why such a winding career path? Well, I have a degree in biology, yet a passion in writing, and you gotta eat, son! And then you gotta keep a roof over your head and keep the lights on.
Currently I work remotely as a project manager with a creative digital agency in the US, and as an Editor-in-Chief plus overall troubleshooter for The Reformer magazine under the Pakistani chapter of Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD) in partnership with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
What I dream to work as is a writer writing novels, scripting webtoons or manga, or anime and k-dramas. Currently I’m on a journey to write my own stuff rather than for clients.
I leave you with this passage from Roald Dahl I had read in my childhood:
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear.
Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great.
It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze… a person is a fool to become a writer.
His only compensation is absolute freedom.
He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.“