make a good living working 20 hours a week

but I think it’s time to get a regular job. I may try again in the future, and if the job I want comes through, I believe it will help me in that direction.

I was a little naive about this goal. First, that I would have adequate consulting business. Second, that I would be able to do the work in 20 hours. Third, that I had the training/background to do the work (I’m not a nurse).

Still, I’m glad I tried.

given all this time I have on my hands, that I shouldn’t simply write a book. You know?

I have a glimmer of an idea that I will pursue.

Oh, and the point of posting the idea under this particular goal is that I think I can get paid for it! Yay!

A (lameass) website with Google Ads embedded.

Anyone care to differ?

nor living on beans.

to the fact that I am damned inefficient, not to mention 43things- and email-addicted. Well perhaps primarily because of those things.

So I downloaded a time-tracking program wherein I can push a Start and a Stop button to monitor my contracting work.

Really, I can get a lot more done if I can avoid distractions. The best way to do it is to avoid the computer entirely, but that’s not always possible.

The problem is that, between music and public health, both of which are apparently crucially important to me, I have two careers (if you’ll allow me to aggrandize thus the music part). I really expected that with some health-related editing and writing to pay the bills, I was ready to phase out my interest in public health. But no – leaving the job had the effect of regalvanizing my interest, and leaving me feeling really pumped about all the opportunities.

Plus, it’s taking a lot of time to get things together, so there are all these infrastructure problems to distract me.

Plus, I am afraid of starving, so I do the paid work first.

So I am not left with nearly the time or energy I’d hoped for to do music.

Meanwhile, no one has paid me yet for all the work I did in Feb. and March. What’s up with that?

sigh

I’m working lots more than 20 hours. The thing is, of course there will be feasts and famines, and right now I want to bank money for the down times, but it makes it hard to fit in the rest of my life.

that it will take 100 hours. I’m working with an unwieldy group of co-authors.

Another problem, though, is that they take 6 weeks to settle invoices! :-o

but there is no way that I’m going to be doing 100 hours of it, which is what I contracted for. It simply will not take anywhere near that long. What to do? I could really use the cash.

this is actually a lot like grad school, except it’s a little more expensive living in DC than in North Carolina, and now I have a mortgage and, as it happens, a lot more of an existing life to work around. Funny thing – I have been staying up later than I ever did in school. I’m sure that will pass… I do like my 8 hours, and don’t particularly like sleeping late.

Tonight I am kicking butt on the draft of an article I’ve been hired to write. Thinking about ordering in dinner!