This Gen Xer left her cubicle behind. At 59, she says she made $500,000 in the creator economy

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For nearly three decades, 59-year-old Eileen Munoz spent her workdays in a cubicle. To her, the tiny confined desk came to represent everything she felt about her nine-to-five career in insurance: stuck.

The most she ever made in a year was $70,000, and she eventually became so burned out that she would cry on Sundays, knowing her cubicle and another full workweek were waiting for her.