How Did You Decide That You Could Do What You Love?

i'm not sure that i would have necessarily believed that i could do what i do without like what you did, because you were a friend of mine from school. So for me, i am, i i felt ridiculously over confident in my own ability. I remember telling my dad that i was going to, a, quit my job at hp and try writing full time, even though i never had anything published. It was a measured risk, a, but it feels like i was giving up a lot. And all the people that i was working with who supposedly had these steady jobs in a big company now, they're fired all the time. The companies get reorganized and so no career