A little about one of my goals. I make a pretty good salary as a database administrator. A heck of a lot more than i made as a marine biologist. But not nearly as much fun. Because DBAs tend to be expensive, folks don’t usually hire enough of us… which, coupled with the fact that most maintenance activities must happen after normal business hours (and in some 24×7 shops, in the wee smalls, when traffic is least if there is any downtime required). We’re not known for sleeping a lot. We take our crack-berry phones with us on vacation. Our kids learn to amuse themselves while we tap away at our keyboards.
It’s the last one that gets me. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like being a DBA… it’s a job that really challenges the mind, the organizational skills, the diplomacy skills and endurance. Never a dull moment, really. I have a four year old daughter, however, and the number of hours I have to work for my <mumble> salary isn’t fare to her. It breaks my heart that I don’t get to spend more time with her than I do. I want to work fewer hours and spend more time with my sweet daughter, without compromising our financial stability. That sound suspiciously like a goal, doesn’t it?
Replacing $<mumble> of income while reducing one’s hours-worked is a very large task (hence the Elephant reference in the title). As the old saying goes though, regarding how one eats an elephant… “you do it one bite at a time…” As I am still very new at the web marketing thing, I doubt that I can do this in one income stream at the outset. I am fairly sure this will take multiple income streams as I grow and learn. Also, as I still have daycare, mortgage, etcetera to pay, I will have to continue to work my day job, so the amount of time that i can devote to this new endeavor is necessarily limited to no more than a couple of hours a day if I squeeze hard. I’ll continue to discuss this as I continue to grow my business(es?).
It’s midnight here in Irving now, and my darling child will wake me up, no doubt, sometime around 5am. Time for me to head for bed. If you are still itching for some good reading, check out my latest lenses on Squidoo about Kids and Karate and about the coffee shop I’ll be visiting about seven hours from now.
G’night y’all…
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