Alt-paths Archives - Page 4 of 4 - Grace Conyers

Spare time, spare change

One of the huge obstacles in creating your own alternative path and business is money. Everything, and I do mean everything, costs you something. It costs you time or it costs you money. Often times it costs you a large quantity of both. Bootstrapping has its appeal in the pride of the business being all […]

How to transition to the alt-path of your dreams

Two and a half years ago I moved to Indianapolis with a very different thought process. I left Purdue near the end of my master’s degree with the intent to finish up remotely while working at your every day, average company doing something I love and working on Insanitek idly in my spare time. It […]

Reasons why you should follow an alt-path

In the last two blogs I’ve talked about fear and obstacles that are standing in your way to creating a life you love. Even though I gave you encouragement to find the ways around those blocks that may come to your mind, I didn’t give you a good reason to really follow an alternative path […]

Obstacles that stand in the way of alt-path followers

Carving out an alt-path you can enjoy is often not easy. It’s not just the fear of what may happen, but the obstacles that pop up along the way. The normal, established paths require you to have degrees in this or that, a bundle of certifications, and a few years to decades of experience to […]

Fear of Walking Alternative Paths

Life is not about stability, it’s about chance. It’s about love, learning, mistakes, falling then picking ourselves back up. It’s about laughing at those mistakes when we’re older. We can rationalise this in our off time, but when it comes to our career choices we have a tendency to think traditional choices for stability’s sake. […]