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When Your Pastime Becomes Your Profession By Victoria L. Herring

Victoria L. Herring practices civil rights and discrimination law in Des Moines,

Iowa. She also operates JourneyZing (www.journeyzing.com), which provides

customized trip and travel research to people and businesses traveling through

the United States and overseas and provides photographic fine art from

her travels for purchase. She may be reached at [email protected].

Published in GP Solo, Volume 27, Number 3, April/May 2010 © 2010 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied ordisseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

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Working from home opened up time for me to explore my “right brain.”

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I decided to keep practicing law, but my hobby would now be my avocation.

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I’ve moved from the law as my main career and fulfillment to photography as my main career and fulfillment.

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