For the past couple of days I’ve been getting my resume in order. While I’m content with working online, this time of year it’s hard to really earn any decent money. October is when things tend to pick up for me, everyone is looking for a new site to launch in January almost as fast as the ball drops. January itself is a bit boring so I tend to look into outside methods. Unfortunately, this year isn’t bringing in very much for me. Thanks to Google’s recent drop in Page Ranks, I’m no longer bringing in the $150 a day I once was. I’m lingering in the $60 a day mark and even though that’s still about $1800 a month, it’s no where near the almost $4,000 I was bringing in up until that point.

So what do you do in a situation like this? Look for jobs in the area that will give you at least some of your money back. I’ve applied at the typical retail jobs, something I told myself I’d never go back to, and I’ve also been bulking up my resume for the design firms in the area as well. Hopefully within the next few months of working I’ll have my own car so I don’t have to use Sean’s anymore and the rest will be much easier on me. For now, I’m just miserable with everything going on.

I don’t like the housing situation, I’d like to be in my own place and I’d like to go back to earning $4,000 a month so I can get all of my bills paid off. I’ve been slacking, I’ll fully admit to that. There are bills to be paid and all I can do is figure out new and interesting ways to make the big bucks and leave the mundane jobs up for grabs for everyone else.

Hopefully something will fall in my lap. I honestly can’t wait for it to happen considering how badly I want a new car, to get back into school and then eventually have enough of a nest egg so I can get the house of my dreams. I’m even looking into “rent to own” properties right now, I just can’t afford the $2500 a month price tag that’s attached to them, even with Sean’s income matching mine. There’s still a personal loan to be paid off, a credit card, I’m putting out about $500 in other bills each month - it’s just not going to happen anytime soon and it sucks.