> hopefully this takes off (there are writers in her genre making hundreds of thousands, including a couple writers she's friends with, maybe she'll become one herself, although I'd be happy if she can get it to the point where it's like $60k/year)
That might be more difficult than becoming a runaway success. I don't think the distribution of author earnings peaks in the middle.
I can see that. A lot of things tend to be bimodal in their distribution. Let's hope she becomes a runaway success then :).
And if not, it's not like she lost her ability to do proposal management. If it gets to that point, I'm sure she could find a well-paying job again if need be.
She's got a lot more practice with those interviews than I do, in fact, since she would interview when recruiters contacted her with a potentially better-paying job even if she wasn't really looking at the moment, whereas I tend to ignore recruiters when I'm not actively looking (or at least debating if I should start looking).
That might be more difficult than becoming a runaway success. I don't think the distribution of author earnings peaks in the middle.