Two Weeks Unemployed and Finding My Rhythm

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Tomorrow will officially mark me being unemployed for two weeks. It seems like such a scary concept! That's one whole paycheck I'm now missing out on. Emotionally though? And physically for that matter? I feel very motivated and just all around happier. My skin issues that were flaring up have leveled out, my back isn't hurting daily like it was, and hopefully any internal problems I was having will have settled down. Overall, despite lack of income, I'm doing better than when I was working my full time job. Mostly I've been focusing on writing. I've now found three solid sites I can write for that have potential for earning income. I've found a home on Medium for nonfiction articles and opinion pieces, Simily for short fiction, and Stary for novel length stories. My daily routine consists not only of writing something for one of those sites daily (yes, I'm cranking out a piece of writing literally every day right now, after almost two years of writing almost nothing), but also scouring through and reading, liking, and commenting on other people's works. I'm learning as I go and making myself part of these communities, which in turn creates more of a reward for me (similar to posting discussions on here). I'm hoping to keep up this momentum even when I go back to "real" work. I'm looking for something preferably part time for now in hopes that I can keep it up without burning out. If anyone has any questions about any of these platforms, I've been deep diving into them for a couple weeks now so I feel like I have all the ins and outs. At least enough to pass on pros and cons if any of you are interested in writing for them. Let me know!