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Wow, I just got back from pitching my biggest prospect ever. My web consultancy is growing by leaps and bounds. This is a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company, which makes it not only the biggest job, but the biggest company we’ve ever had on our radar. This final pitch was a half hour in-person . . . → Read More: Biggest client yet! I was listening to a Kiyosaki CD today while taking a break from programming. I find his stuff mostly too simplistic, but I was liking it today for some reason, when I heard Kiyosaki make a really funny and interesting point. He says that some few people can get rich by scrimping and saving. . . . → Read More: Cheapskate Wealth According to Your Credit Advisor, this site is ranked 60th in the top 100 finance blogs in the world. Ladies and gentlemen of the Academy, all I can say is that I deserve the award. Thanks. We’re number 60, we’re number 60, woot! I did think that the site described Fearless Money in an . . . → Read More: We're number 60! As I mentioned in my previous post Getting help=more time to make money, it is time for my family to get a maid. Both my wife and I spend far too much time taking care of the routine cleaning tasks generated by a household of two adults, three children, two dogs and two cats. . . . → Read More: Maids ahoy! From “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” (Timothy Ferriss), page 33: For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never be all green . . . → Read More: The Timing Is Never Right This weekend I finished reading "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich" by Timothy Ferriss. I just got it last week, and I read it straight through, putting aside all other books for a couple days. I’m not going to give it an in-depth review. I think David . . . → Read More: Timothy Ferriss and Scared Geeks In a momentous move for me, I’ve finally actually paid someone to do something I really could’ve done myself. This is a huge change for me, and I can’t believe it took me until almost 40 years old before I could get comfortable with it. I paid a strong young guy $250 to rip . . . → Read More: Getting help = more time to make money A few weeks ago, I talked about discovering Charter Schools in Portland. We’d applied for both of our school-age kids after a very impressive visit. It is a lottery system to get into the schools, with a preference for existing students’ siblings. We were fairly sure Ian would get into the highschool, but much . . . → Read More: We got into Trillium! In my third year of successful (25% or greater profit) stock-picking, I thought it was time to add a sidebar widget to show my current investments. On the right you’ll see where I am currently invested. Most of them are International ETFs and all but one have been making double digit gains for years. . . . → Read More: New feature, My Stocks
But I am getting better. This weekend, at the Beltane party, I started to answer "I’m a programmer…", but then caught myself and said, "Actually these days I am a small business owner. I went into business for myself earlier this year with a couple partners." I really love identifying myself this way. It has something to do with the fact that my father was a small business owner, which I always admired and knew I wanted to emulate some day. It also has something to do with the fact that people don’t seem to glaze over quite so quickly when you talk about starting a business. |
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Months into my new life as a small-businessman, I still stumble on the old question "What do you do?"
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