I’ve got more work than I know what to do with… Well, okay, that’s not quite fair.\u00a0 I have a lot of work, but I know what to do with it.\u00a0 Finish it on time.\u00a0 See, not that complex!<\/p>\n
When I quit working for an employer, I had several income streams figured out, and I approached it with the idea I’d do most anything <\/em>legal and reasonable to bring in some cash.\u00a0\u00a0 Clean houses, babysit, be a Virtual Assistant, have a phone advice line, temp… I didn’t care as long as I was working for myself.\u00a0 As wonderful as the job I left was (and I really did work with some great people in a fantastic environment), I Just Don’t Like Office Work.\u00a0 I didn’t leave to flee the Job from Hell, but because I needed a change and needed to be working for myself.<\/p>\n I am actually a little surprised that writing has become a big enough part of my income (most of it, these days) that I’m not thinking so much in terms of finding multiple income streams doing radically different things as I am thinking in terms of being a full-time freelance writer.\u00a0\u00a0 Not all of my income is from writing.\u00a0 I teach computer applications, too.\u00a0 But, I’m almost at the point where I could quit that if I wanted to and only write.<\/p>\n Here’s the cool part.\u00a0 The teaching?\u00a0 I’m doing that because it’s fun<\/em>.\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 I wouldn’t give it up. If I had a J.K. Rowling-style success at fiction (and none<\/em> of my income comes from fiction), I’d still want to teach.\u00a0 I don’t think I’d love it full time like I do writing nearly full time.\u00a0 I’d burn out.\u00a0 But a few classes a month? Bring it on!<\/p>\n I’m feeling slow today.\u00a0 I can’t believe I got my lazy butt to the gym this morning.\u00a0 You know those workouts when you’re having a great time, the blood is pumping and you feel like a God?\u00a0 Yeah, well, today wasn’t one of ’em.\u00a0 The best I can say is that I did what I planned I would do.\u00a0\u00a0 I saw a woman in the gym today that was monster strong.\u00a0 I saw her at the squat rack with an empty bar and though, “No way did she get muscle development on her legs like that squatting 45lbs!”<\/p>\n I was right.\u00a0 That was her warmup set.\u00a0 She was doing pyramids and when I left she was squatting something like 155lbs. (She was teeny, too.\u00a0 ‘Bout my height, but with very little body fat).\u00a0 I commented to a trainer there, “Someday.”<\/p>\n “Yeah, she’s really strong,” quoth he.<\/p>\n It made me feel good, because he knew immediately I was envying the strength more than anything.\u00a0\u00a0 You have no idea how much I enjoy being in a gym where strength and fitness in women is considered a great goal without pushing skinny, skinny, skinny all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got more work than I know what to do with… Well, okay, that’s not quite fair.\u00a0 I have a lot of work, but I know what to do with it.\u00a0 Finish it on time.\u00a0 See, not that complex! When I quit working for an employer, I had several income streams figured out, and I … <\/p>\n