become financially independant

Well… I live on my own now, I can slowly pay for going back to school, and my freelancing work seems pretty steady and reliable.

For me, financial independence is simply earning more than you spend, and not having to ask people for handouts.

At least for the last 6 months, I’ve been able to do this, which means I think I’ve reached my goal.

I bought 10 ride train passes and netflix instead of pay-per-view

getting some discounts there and having a fixed rate to pay will help me from impulse buying and also make it easier to budget cash out. It’s little stuff, but I bet I’ll see a difference!

I started doing some article work for O’Reilly and cut a better deal at work for some things…

we’ll see how it goes. I need to curb some of my spending habits to make this work…

Google Summer of Code will give me a savings account to start with!

Things are starting to stabilize a bit, and I’m probably going to be moving into my own apartment in the next 3 months.