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Originally Posted by CunningStunt
Cat, I thought you were back to laying planks 
I'm not worried, but the crud that's ranking these days in google, the less dross the better. I'd rather talk to people on the boards who have a clue rather than chest pumping. |
I took a shitty bookkeeping job with the resort for the winter. Gets me a ski-pass, and pay is about as good as it's going to get for me without going back to a ditch digging position somewhere. It's easy, not much is expected of me, and I can pretty much sit in my office writing content for my mainstream projects half of my day and nobody cares. It's kind of like collecting an hourly paycheck to rebuild my network. The guy who trained me so I could take over for him, literally closed the office door and went to sleep for half his shift.
I'm really not a fan of busting my ass on the railroad, even if it does pay well. So I had to make a move somewhere.
I should actually give credit to Uno for nudging me enough to get started again. I was able to salvage some really old backups from a fucked up hard drive and had a bit to work with. Got me around to re-establishing a couple of my old earners and bringing them back up to their glory. Now I'm building out some old plans I had made back in the spring that seem to be showing some early promise. Traffic is growing quickly, sales are already showing up, and I've been researching other new markets to move into. If all goes well I can kiss my slacks and tie goodbye by next summer, and get comfy with basement dwelling again. This time around I'll be managing things a lot differently. My hosting is paid up well in advance, I'm keeping up to date local backups of everything. On my HD, and burned to DVD-RW. I spend way more time researching things before I develop.
I'm looking at the past failure as an opportunity to start things over fresh and learn from where I fucked up this first time around. Taking a few months to think the previous years worth the experience over gave me the chance to realize key points where I had went wrong and to come up with a more defined gameplan. I'm going to take things a little slower and do them right this time. Hopefully. In an odd sort of way, as lame as my current crappy job is, it's actually teaching me a fair bit about management and organization while I do it. So I'm sure I'm picking up some applicable skills in the process.