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- Nov 23rd, 2007
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I am reflecting.
The whole attraction of Earning an Online income is to be Free from a BOSS and from a J.O.B.. However, picture this scenario:
You wake up, send your children off to school, and go to your 9 to 5 job. You are home by 6 PM and have the night with your family - for yourself! You get holidays off like Thanksgiving!! Regular Paycheck!! Benefits!! Vacation!! Maybe you even make friends and get to listen to the radio and gossip while at work!! Or BETTER YET - you surf the web and learn how to make money online while your BOSS PAYS YOU!! Sweeeet..
The other scenario:
You work from home at your computer. 6 PM comes and goes. Dinner is served, cleared away, your laptop is still running on the end of the table. You get an email notification, so ’sorry honey’ let me just see who that is.. bedtime stories are read, children in bed… now hurry!! hurry! back to the computer
AH.. yes. now that I have worked all day, and the children are asleep. AHH another evening of some alone time with ME and My Computer.
10:30 PM - I WILL NOT BE TOO TIRED. I WILL WORK LONGER. LATER. ALL NIGHT IF I HAVE TO…
CRASH
3:30 AM one eye opens to survey the scene. I have somehow made it 3 feet away to the couch.
I am refreshed. I have had almost 5 hours of sleep! Bathroom, brush my teeth (well sometimes), no need to get in PJ’s since the whole pitch we offer is working at home in our PJ’s!! (added for drama, but when I look back and read this in 30 years I must note for the record that I am always dressed!), and then…back to the computer.
So now when I think THANKSGIVING, I am thinking that with no JOB to not have to go to.. what is there really to be thankful for? Another reason to feel guilty hanging out at the computer and ignoring the family?
Not that we celebrate Thanksgiving where I live. Here we say thanks ALL the time. Before we eat food, after we use the bathroom, before we go to sleep at night, and when we wake up in the morning.
Since this is a time when family gets together and we spread all over the globe, let me bring a piece of my family here:
my favorites on this list are #2 and #4, #5, #7, #8 … lol actually THE BEST tunes are here at Amazon - all are great but Half Dozen is probably my fave - (and no -its NOT an affiliate link
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If you are still here with me… then I hope I didnt make that strong a case for the ‘RAT RACE’ folks, cuz the P.S. is that if all goes right, by this time next year… you know the rest..
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Chris B. (November 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pm )
It’s so true. It never seems to end when you’re getting started online. I read a recent tip on Lifehacker that suggested strict time blocks for two weeks to really instill discipline so that work time is work time and family time is family time. It’s hard to do, but it gets you in a good pattern.
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ady (November 26th, 2007 at 7:01 am )
The “guilt” of spending time with your computer vs. your family that you speak of, Andrea, is so true. It’s hard to balance out how much time to justify on the net on a project you are not yet making money on. Even if I make my millions “by this time next year” will it bring back all the precious moments I missed with my children this year?
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Andrea (November 27th, 2007 at 4:48 pm )
Chris,
Hi. Got to check that lifehacker tip out (got a link by the way).. as Ady said, who wants to keep waiting until later.. when later will have lost so many precious moments. Any help is appreciated.
Ady and Dena (who commented on the next post, but meant for here)..
So nice to have others who can relate.. and I mean in a lot more ways than just mentioned here! Ady Meet Dena, Dena meet Ady, lets do brunch sometime shall we gals?
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ady (November 29th, 2007 at 6:56 am )
Nice to meet you, Dena!
Thanks for acknowledging our posts… you are really a great “blog hostest” always making your commenters feel like their comments are read and important.
Love to get together with both of you!
Now brunch… That would be a tough one… Condering brunch is somewhere between breakfast and lunch… that would be pretty hard to define for a couple of stay at home internet moms who exist in multiple time zones all at the same time. I’d say if we can find a local diner open at 3:00AM, that would probably be our best bet…
Let’s be in touch!
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Jim Carlin | 15 Days To A Passive Income Machine (March 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm )
It is such a struggle, it’s worth the time when you know the end product will be a passive income that ultimately will let you spend more time with your family, but how much is your family going lack in the meantime?
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