NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 2323590" data-attributes="member: 3867">I've done some freelance work in my time, and I have to say, it isn't easy!  Not only do I do that, but I run the Dragonlance Nexus and help around Dragonlance.com, have a wife and two kids....there's a lot I have to deal with.I'm lucky that my job allows me some writing time, so that helps.  What I can say, though, is that I do not, by any means, get 8 hours of sleep a night.  More like 5-6.  I don't recommend it, and not everyone can pull off a lesser amount of sleep.Tracy Hickman has stressed a couple of things to me since I've known him - take care of family and don't quit your day job.  The RPG business doesn't really pay enough to live on, not unless you're doing it full-time.  Even many of the full-time RPG designers I know are struggling to get by.  I think average salaries I've seen have been about 18K - 22K a year (correct me if I'm wrong on that). So if you are working on RPGs and you're not a Big Name (which most of us aren't), then I suggest that you keep working your job, take care of family, and do the RPG thing in moderation.  Be sure to take time out for yourself and have some fun, otherwise you'll burn out.  If you do reach a point where you can survive on an RPG designer salary and do it full time, that's great.  Be realistic, though, and note that it may not happen for some time and take care of what's really important (friends, family and self) first.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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