Vanessa Perlman finds her flow between a freelance legal career and a travel business

The Lawyer's Escape Pod

Vanessa Perlman is a corporate attorney and has mixed freelance legal work with running her own travel business. She gives us a great example of how building a career isn’t an all-or-nothing endeavor. You can mix and match. You can go back and forth. You can do what makes most sense for each season of your life. As lawyers, we often put so much pressure on making a change, and Vanessa shows us that we can lighten up on ourselves a bit and it will still all work out.

• Vanessa ended up doing freelance legal work
• Freelance work opened up time and space to start a travel business
• Vanessa incorporated her interests by including a global health philanthropic element in her travel business
• You don’t have to be all or nothing in your approach to exploring your interests
• Vanessa has balanced exploring different career options with the reality that she’s her own sole breadwinner
• It’s ok if something ends up not working - it’s all still a worthwhile experiment
• Let go or be dragged

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