A job can still be considered off-beat even if it is at a major corporation where employees work normal hours. Take, for example, a greeting card writer. When I was 15, I used to draw a lot and write poetry, and I just thought that to bring those two elements together would be to do greeting cards. That way I could do both. If I'm having a bad day and feel like screaming at the cat, that's cool.
Nobody really cares.
This characteristic is important, she ex plains, because if you're going to work on your own, you need to have the discipline to be your own boss. You have to be able to accomplish the work in the time that it takes. And you have to be willing to work evenings and weekends in order to make deadlines. Tara Centeio says that one of the best things about her job at Hallmark is that the company appreciates the creative nature of her work and does not enforce strict deadlines. There may be a whole entire week or two where I really am just not ticking, or have writer's block or something.