Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in alternative income on Sep 4th, 2008
Here are my numbers for the alternative income I made in August. I’m happy to report that this beats my all time record of income for a month, despite not having any freelance income or any ING referrals. Why so much then? Well, I set a new high for my Adsense income, which is nice [...]
Posted in alternative income on Jul 30th, 2008
I’ve been posting my alternative income for every month lately and while it’s nice to chart how well I do from one month to the next, I started to wonder how much alternative income I’ve made total since I started to monetize my blog and keep track of this stuff. So I decided to count [...]
Posted in alternative income on Jul 2nd, 2008
Well, it’s the end of the month and that means taking a look at how the blog has done. One major thing that happened is I quit my one freelance gig. I had been having issues with it for a while now (I absolutely hated it) and it was taking up more and more of [...]
Posted in alternative income on May 1st, 2008
Here’s what my situation looks like for April compared to March:
The increase data tells you I boosted my alternative income by $56 compared to yesterday, which is pretty good (a 70% increase over last month’s 36% increase), but there are some things to clarify before getting too giddy.
I didn’t get any ING referrals this month [...]
Posted in alternative income on Apr 16th, 2008
It seems like eons ago, but back in the day (when I was in grad school, not working, and had a ton of time on my hands) I thought I wanted to be a teacher. Maybe not to that extent, but I knew I wanted to at least try teaching. OK maybe that’s off the [...]
Posted in Finance, Freelancing, Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
I’ve talked and thought about alternative income and diversifying my income for a long time but I’ve never really counted up all the pennies to see how much I’ve been making. It was just such an “insignificant” amount that I never gave it much thought.
Then last month I saw some actual amounts of money in [...]
Posted in Freelancing, Writing on Feb 8th, 2008
I’ve been freelancing for this one client for a few months now. The deal was one big project at the beginning and some small upkeep on a month-to-month basis. Everything was fine until last month, when that upkeep became more than just minor. I spent five hours working on something that usually took around two.
This [...]
Posted in Advertising, Blogging, Finance on Jan 24th, 2008
When I first started this site, it was hosted by Wordpress and I didn’t have the option to put ads on it. And to be honest, I never really thought about it. I started the blog thinking I would help others go through the financial awakening that I went through, and I hoped to learn [...]
Posted in Jobs, Motivation on Jan 3rd, 2008
M and I get to spend a lot of time together right now. Not sure if it’s because our job hours aren’t that significant or if it’s where we are in life (no kids? I don’t know). But we both feel really lucky that we get to see each other every day and spend a [...]
Posted in Blogging, Freelancing, Happiness, Writing on Nov 20th, 2007
Finally this is finished and I am so happy. I had underestimated how much work it was going to be and how much time it was going to take up. This is the first day in a couple of weeks where I really felt like I could devote myself to writing and not think about [...]
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