A year later

Good lord, how is it a new year? Feels like a decent lifetime. Professionally, I found it took roughly a year to make the full transition from 20 years in university press publishing to a full-time freelance career, both in terms of experiences and most certainly income. I would love to know if this comports with the experience of colleagues out there, who have made the jump from higher ed publishing admin to solo freelance. I find myself now working in fiction and non-fiction equally, which is a delight. So much fine writing out there! I confess I do not mind switching roles from pure acquisitions work to freelance developmental editing yet.