Begin the beguine
I haven’t been happy in a long time. Trying to get through to what is important to me has been quite the journey and I won’t bore you. Top of my list to accomplish happiness is to be financially stable. I have been poor and broke and at the bottom of things for most of my adult life. While I am no longer there, I am still way too close to be comfortable. I needed to figure out another income stream. I have a job at a good company. But like most good companies, the people at the bottom tend to stay there and the money never trickles down that far. In my quest of what to do next or where to go, I realized I just didn’t want to work for anyone anymore. I work hard. I don’t need metrics, electronic leashes, or bosses on a power-trip to get me to do what needs to be done everyday. My grandparents were farmers. Hardest workers I ever did see, every day of the week. They didn’t need an overseer and at this time of my life, I don’t either. But what to do?
I did what most of us do and took to the internet and dove down all the ways I could make money in my spare time. I didn’t really want to go out and get another job or a 2nd job. To be bound to another corporate culture complete hurts my stomach. I learned about passive income. Setting up revenue streams that once they are set they can generate income. I watched videos and read articles and took copious notes. I aligned what I was good at and balanced that with what was possible. Such as, I’m not good at economics so playing the stock market is out. Not enough money in the kitty to play in real estate. I could never concentrate long enough to write a novel. I have very few friends and I am not very social. In fact, this blog post is my first online posting in over 3 years so I am guessing I will never become a huge influencer who just has to post random streams of content to earn money. But there are lots of ways to create passive income besides those options. I am going to go down those avenues and see what I can do and I am going to log my journey here. I dream of a small house, with a large garage, buried deep in the woods - but attached to some quality fiber. Wish me luck.
