Who still has a 9-5?
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Although it's supposedly full-time I only have to be there 2 to 4 hours each day depending on the schedule. It's easy and relatively well-paying, but only compared to what everyone else here makes. No intention of keeping the job longer than I have to; I really like sleeping all day.
I officially quit in December 2007. Before that i was on and off, just when i was bored and wanted to work. I was even telling the owner not to pay me my hours, i would work only for tip.
Bartending in Miami was fun. Still, i was going home drunk and with $300-$500 in my pocket. Best job ever.
Bartending in Miami was fun. Still, i was going home drunk and with $300-$500 in my pocket. Best job ever.
Pretty much same boat as Mr. Cheney. I ran my business solely for a while but then got approached for a position with a VC firm helping their portfolio.
Fixed paycheck for some knowledge and ordering around IT guys and marketers plus whatever the business makes is not a bad deal.
In the long run it's nice because my biz will have a fat bank account to play around with when I'm ready to run it full-time again.
As long as I'm doing work for other people I still feel like I'm working a 9-5, even if I work from home dictating my own hours.
That's not to say I don't enjoy to some extent turning out quality work for other people, it is satisfying, but I would prefer to be just working for myself at this point in my life.
That's not to say I don't enjoy to some extent turning out quality work for other people, it is satisfying, but I would prefer to be just working for myself at this point in my life.
I am completely unemployable. I have never had a 9-5, though I did start employment when I was 14. I worked some 6-2s and 3-9s and stuff like that over the years. When I lost my last job several years ago, I just decided I wasn't doing that any more.
Having not been employed for several years, sometimes I actually find myself WANTING a 9-5. But then I realize I really don't have that option. So then I go back to making money or finding a new thing to do on my own. I don't know what I would do otherwise. So I have to do what I have to do.
Having not been employed for several years, sometimes I actually find myself WANTING a 9-5. But then I realize I really don't have that option. So then I go back to making money or finding a new thing to do on my own. I don't know what I would do otherwise. So I have to do what I have to do.
I'm like JohnCJackson above, never really had a 9-5 except a brief stint working in a relative's company and being bored shitless - quit after three months.
I've always pretty much been self-employed. Mostly with my band in college, then now I combine playing professional jazz (very busy during wedding season, slower rest of the year) with affiliate marketing and publishing. Make much more from IM than I'll probably ever make from music, although we get paid well when we're busy, there are tons of slow months. I like being able to fully enjoy the music stuff without worrying about the dough. IM has allowed me to find a great balance and I earn way more from it than I would at a 9 to 5, anyway - I mean, I have a journalism degree for fuck's sake. Even senior journalists at the newspapers are getting pay cuts, layoffs, salaries tied up in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. So there's no future there.
I've always pretty much been self-employed. Mostly with my band in college, then now I combine playing professional jazz (very busy during wedding season, slower rest of the year) with affiliate marketing and publishing. Make much more from IM than I'll probably ever make from music, although we get paid well when we're busy, there are tons of slow months. I like being able to fully enjoy the music stuff without worrying about the dough. IM has allowed me to find a great balance and I earn way more from it than I would at a 9 to 5, anyway - I mean, I have a journalism degree for fuck's sake. Even senior journalists at the newspapers are getting pay cuts, layoffs, salaries tied up in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. So there's no future there.
3 days work as SEO employee for company
2 days for AM
2 days for anything I want
Already make multiple times more on AM than employee but want to make a hell of alot more before i give up job and do 3 days on AM instead. I am quite comfortable at the moment.
2 days for AM
2 days for anything I want
Already make multiple times more on AM than employee but want to make a hell of alot more before i give up job and do 3 days on AM instead. I am quite comfortable at the moment.
Weird. I've gone home drunk with $300 missing from my pocket plenty of times...but never the other way around.
Except of course when I was hookin'.
I haven't had a real job since late 2003 but I was relatively broke until just last year.
Just laid off and handed my severence check last week.. My first week off I played golf for 4 days, came home and tore up my knee up playing basketball. I'm taking the summer off with no intentions of going to work for a company again. I was highly paid but the work just so boring I was relieved when I got the call saying it was over.
I knew guys who worked 70+ hours a week for nothing, companies just axe you regardless. Used to be employee's were the most valuable, then customers, now it's just $$$ + greed. So much more out there to do than sitting in meetings with idiots. I should have stuck with my instincts in my 20's to be an entrepreneur and avoid the corporate BS. Lessons learned but I learned alot of stuff along the way..
Now I finally have some time to do some affiliate work..
I knew guys who worked 70+ hours a week for nothing, companies just axe you regardless. Used to be employee's were the most valuable, then customers, now it's just $$$ + greed. So much more out there to do than sitting in meetings with idiots. I should have stuck with my instincts in my 20's to be an entrepreneur and avoid the corporate BS. Lessons learned but I learned alot of stuff along the way..
Now I finally have some time to do some affiliate work..
Laid off from a very good IT job earlier this year. And I can't thank them enough. It's online income or bust for me. No back up plan. Just incorprated and starting on my plan. Still have a few months of severance left and then unemployment. Just glad I'm finally not paying 2 mortgages anymore.
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