517: From $30k a Year to $30k in a Day: Freelance to Freedom
Jul 04, 2022, 09:00 AM
“You have a skill, but you’re not using it correctly.”
That the tough love advice Vincent Pugliese’s father gave him.
Vincent was working what he thought was his dream job as a photojournalist. He’d just won the most prestigious award in his industry (International Sports Photographer of the Year), and he and his wife Elizabeth had a baby on the way.
Yet the newspaper job didn’t pay well. With the impending arrival of their son, Vincent took a hard look at his financial picture: he was in his mid-30s, 6-figures in debt, and earning $15 an hour.
Not great.
Something had to change, and something did.