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My goal, basically, is to be able to make money while also maintaining my freedom to have a flexible schedule to do whatever I want in life. You know, to stop punching a clock for the man, making money for HIM, and having to do what I'm told when I'm told.
For a while (about 2 1/2 years, actually) between JustAnswer and writing I was actually doing decently and at least making enough money to pay all my bills and have a bit left over for other purposes. But JA has been REAL shitty lately and the writing has dropped from me often getting multiple pieces published a month to getting maybe one piece published every few months. Which is the opposite direction that I was hoping things would go. I was hoping that JA would keep getting better and more successful and the question volume would increase and that I would eventually expand out to having 4 or 5 articles published a month, every month.
But I don't just want independence, I also want to make more money than ever. I'm really fucking sick of being broke. I want to have multiple revenue streams coming in at all times and I want them to total enough that if one suddenly went away completely I'd still be making a solid income.
I'm not sure if you saw my post, but I'm studying right now to get certified as a personal trainer. I'd like to take a few clients on locally, but the real plan is to start an online personal training program. Basically, people sign up, pay a monthly fee that's a fraction of what it would be to have a trainer in person, and I create workouts for them and provide advice over the Internet. And, hopefully, it will get big enough to where I'll have too many clients to handle and I can then bring in other trainers to handle the overflow, let them do most of the work, and then split the profits with them. That could potentially turn into a real moneymaker if done right.
Ultimately, at this point I'd like to have 4 different things going, with a total monthly revenue of $5K. That would certainly be more money than MY ass has ever made and it would be enough to where I could move into a bigger apartment, finally get a car, pay bills and still have enough left over for recreation and to do a bit of saving/investing.
Let's say:
1. Personal Trainer Website
2. Writing
3. Sportsbetting
4. Maybe a part-time job from which I can easily take time off
If all that could equal $4 or $5K a month I'd be pretty happy. But in order for that plan to work I'd have to a) get the trainer site set up and figure out a way to market it that costs very little money and get the word out, b) establish a relationship with 4 or 5 different publications and write for them regularly, c) go into PP mode or find some way to increase my unit size significantly, and d) . . . well, that's the easy one.
All I know is that I don't want to get back into computer work and I don't want to re-join the 40 hr/week rat race. I refuse. I HAVE to get my own thing(s) going and going well. I'm 31 fucking years old, goddamn it. It's time to figure something out.
For a while (about 2 1/2 years, actually) between JustAnswer and writing I was actually doing decently and at least making enough money to pay all my bills and have a bit left over for other purposes. But JA has been REAL shitty lately and the writing has dropped from me often getting multiple pieces published a month to getting maybe one piece published every few months. Which is the opposite direction that I was hoping things would go. I was hoping that JA would keep getting better and more successful and the question volume would increase and that I would eventually expand out to having 4 or 5 articles published a month, every month.
But I don't just want independence, I also want to make more money than ever. I'm really fucking sick of being broke. I want to have multiple revenue streams coming in at all times and I want them to total enough that if one suddenly went away completely I'd still be making a solid income.
I'm not sure if you saw my post, but I'm studying right now to get certified as a personal trainer. I'd like to take a few clients on locally, but the real plan is to start an online personal training program. Basically, people sign up, pay a monthly fee that's a fraction of what it would be to have a trainer in person, and I create workouts for them and provide advice over the Internet. And, hopefully, it will get big enough to where I'll have too many clients to handle and I can then bring in other trainers to handle the overflow, let them do most of the work, and then split the profits with them. That could potentially turn into a real moneymaker if done right.
Ultimately, at this point I'd like to have 4 different things going, with a total monthly revenue of $5K. That would certainly be more money than MY ass has ever made and it would be enough to where I could move into a bigger apartment, finally get a car, pay bills and still have enough left over for recreation and to do a bit of saving/investing.
Let's say:
1. Personal Trainer Website
2. Writing
3. Sportsbetting
4. Maybe a part-time job from which I can easily take time off
If all that could equal $4 or $5K a month I'd be pretty happy. But in order for that plan to work I'd have to a) get the trainer site set up and figure out a way to market it that costs very little money and get the word out, b) establish a relationship with 4 or 5 different publications and write for them regularly, c) go into PP mode or find some way to increase my unit size significantly, and d) . . . well, that's the easy one.
All I know is that I don't want to get back into computer work and I don't want to re-join the 40 hr/week rat race. I refuse. I HAVE to get my own thing(s) going and going well. I'm 31 fucking years old, goddamn it. It's time to figure something out.
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