Here’s what I’m up to. I can’t believe I haven’t updated this in over a year.
(Great idea @sivers!)
I’ve been at my “day job” now for a year. How weird is that? I’ve been self-employed with 360|Conferences for more than 15 years.
It’s been…. an interesting year.
Only Update of 2023 Edition
- Work
- It’s been awesome working for Crawford Group. I celebrated my 1 year anniversary last month. The people are exceptional and the projects/clients are fun as hell. I’m really happy I landed here and I really enjoy what I’m doing.
- BONUS. I have some control over my hours. My goal this year was 20-30 hours, with more time for writing. More on that below. Even at those hours, I make way more than I paid myself at 360, so… WIN.
- Downside. I’m hourly. The above flexibility is great, but trading hours for dollars is my least favorite thing.
- Writing
- So yeah. “I’ll have so much more time to write” died a slow death this year. My goal was to write about 146,000 words. For me, that’d be two books. Which is my normal pace. I got one book out early in the year (written last year) and only now am crossing over 113,000 words.
- I had hoped the book I did get written this year would be released, but revisions took forever.
- Writing just got hard this year. Between figuring out what my work life/balance was and just generally figuring what working meant, writing didn’t get much attention.
- Being a shit year money from writing-wise didn’t help. I really hope this year was a blip sales-wise.
- So yeah. “I’ll have so much more time to write” died a slow death this year. My goal was to write about 146,000 words. For me, that’d be two books. Which is my normal pace. I got one book out early in the year (written last year) and only now am crossing over 113,000 words.
So, yeah that’s been my 2023. It’s been fun and I’m happy with how things have shaken out post 360|Conferences. I miss the friends I made over the years with the events a lot. But otherwise, I’m ok.
Update log:
November 28, 2023
September 9, 2022
March 20, 2022