Switching careers

What Happens When a Musician Steps Away From Pursuing a Full-Time Music Career

Taking a break might be just what the doctor ordered

Liya Khaimova
5 min readJul 7, 2022
Photo by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash

I’m approaching year 3 of having stepped away from pursuing opera as a full-time career. I work in finance now and it’s a pretty sweet gig. The benefits are incredible, it’s a hybrid work…

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Liya Khaimova

I work in Finance by day, write and sing by night, along with all the other projects happening in my life. Cat mom. She/her. Creator/Editor of Lean In.