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long term 2 years ago

This is going to be a long term goal. I think I am going to have to sit down and write out a plan. I think my first step is to start making more money in the corporate world, pay off all my credit card debt, and start building up my savings.

Then I can begin working on other streams of income. For example I’m thinking about vending machines, or maybe a laundrymat. Then I can focus on that income and if it gets to be enough I’ll consider leaving or at least I’ll be able to quit and not worry about the money aspect if I don’t like the job I have.

Dec 06, 2007, 08:05AM PST | 4 cheers

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mahinui ever more at home

I had some friends

who did vending machines. They had blood pressure machines in health food stores. Within a couple of years, neither one of them had real jobs anymore.

Me, I’m gonna go the runaway wedding venue. I am so stoked about it. Today, my honey and I were driving back from New Years, and I mentioned that next NYE it would be so very cool if we could throw a party in the wedding pavilion. Can’t you just imagine? wooo hooo, I can hardly
wait.

no more time cards, no more word police, no more boss’s bosses, no more key cards, no more ID badges, no more REPORTS, no more rules that I don’t get and have to follow anyway, no more working so the layers of management whose roles are so obscure we don’t even know why they have to come to work, or IF they come to work.

No more working for the BIG BIG corporation that is in place to take your money and give you as little as possible back. !!!!! It’s gonna be OVER!

Yaaayyyy!

Jan 01, 2008, 09:55PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

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go for it

I hope it works out for you! The cubicle world can certainly be a mind boggling black hole some times. It seems to try to suck out any individuality and independence from anyone it can. Today they all wanted to know when I was going to be shipping an item out to a client that they all told me a while back not to buy for the client.

Fun Fun Fun…

Thanks for sharing your story.

Jan 11, 2008, 10:14AM PST | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

mahinui ever more at home

the rest of the story in my list of 43

Come visit anytime.

Plans are things that are not reality waiting to happen. Dreams and plans co-share the same space – that future time that has its own story. We guess at what could fit there, and we get there, and it looks different, and it is different.

We thought we had everything all lined up. Everything looked to be duckies in a row. But fate swatted the ducks around, and now… well, it’s some kind of guessing game to know what to do to get it all done.

There’s that beach house we need to sell, and banks don’t want to lend people money for houses, and especially not second houses. Without that house sold, it’s just plans.

Jan 12, 2008, 11:57AM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

razz51

I was forced into doing this

First by being laid off in 2005, then by my Mom moving in with me. A 40-hour work week just wasn’t compatible with caretaking. I love what I do now (pottery) but the problem is money and benefits. Very little of the former and no traditional benefits like health insurance. The benes I do get – the flexibility, joy, rest, etc. – are great but unless I make some serious money, they just won’t last. There’s something to be said for a paycheck, insurance and a pension.

Jan 02, 2008, 07:18PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

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I agree,

I’m seeing a huge disparity between babyboomers who’ve got benefits to cover the costs of menopause drugs/arthritis drugs/acid reflux drugs, etc. these aren’t really immediately life threatening things… but they sure can make your quality of life miserable.

So, it’s like the ‘haves’ vs. ‘have nots’ for the folks around me… some get to stay healthy, prolong their life with heart medications, take away pain or inflamations, while others just have to suffer it out because they don’t have benefits and can’t afford the cost of all the prescriptions.

Jan 09, 2008, 11:30PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

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the paycheck is nice

Yes there certainly are plenty of benefits to the corporate world. I do really like my benefits. I don’t want to lose them if I don’t have to, but my idea is to be able to (eventually) make enough money outside my corporate job so that I don’t have to worry about the benefits because I can pay out of pocket or pay for my own benefit plan. This will take a lot of work, which is why I say it’s a long term goal.

I think I would not mind the office job so much if I did not depend on it so much. If I had enough extra income from other sources I would be able to just quit when things were not going well and it would not be an emergency situation. I won’t be quitting my office job any time soon.

I hope you can turn your situation around so you are making enough to get benefits.

Jan 11, 2008, 10:09AM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

mahinui ever more at home

would you ever consider an exhibition?

your stuff in a gallery?

Jan 12, 2008, 11:59AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

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Yea sure why not? I think it wold be great.

Jan 12, 2008, 01:02PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

razz51

Oh Yeah!

That’s part of the plan for this year. I hope to be in several galleries by summer. I did have one exhibition in a nearby town, and that was nice. But I need to keep things moving.

Jan 12, 2008, 03:12PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

mahinui ever more at home

did it work out for you?

I used to try to sell stuff I made (wall hangings or just hangings) and the most success I had ever was when realtors came through the house I was living in when the owner was going to list it. They bought everything I had. Looking back, I think galleries are better bets than regular stores that sell all kinds of art pieces, because people go to the gallery to see your stuff, and then buy it if they like it and can afford it.

Do you have a website?

Jan 12, 2008, 03:27PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

razz51

What works

seems to move around. I sold one piece out of the four I had at the gallery. Getting into galleries is time-consuming. Usually one must visit to see what type of work they offer then make an appointment to talk with the gallery owner and show some pieces, then they get back to you. I do have a website: www.forrestpottery.com but need to update it as most of the items are sold or no longer available. My web skills are not the best!

Jan 12, 2008, 03:46PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

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debt

debt will kill our dreams… even if it’s not biting at our pocketbook, it’s like this huge overhanging guilt/obligation that never really allows us to relax. the freedom of not oweing someone anything is so immense… the world is your oyster when you’ve whittled your debt away.

i’d say take the corporate paycheck right now and load it all onto the debt

ps – working for a nonprofit feels really good and you still get the benefits, and usually you end up working with volunteers who want to be there, which is also nice.

Jan 09, 2008, 11:18PM PST | Respond to this

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I was forced into doing this

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would you ever consider an exhibition?

Oh Yeah!

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