When Things Don’t Work Out The Way You Expect

Since I finished my last contract in November (working from home) I haven’t been working on any IT contract. I’ve always enjoyed having time off in between contracts but with the recent decline in my investment portfolio and home value (on paper) I’ve been getting a little stressed. I also had to pay my corporate taxes for the year which was very painful. So I’m feeling much poorer these days. And the wife starts to get on my case to do something. While I’ve been trying to make money online that process isn’t working too well so far.

The one contract I’ve been hoping to get is the one where I can work from home. I’ve already been prequalified via their Request for Qualifications process, but with government budgest decreasing I’m not sure when/if that will happen. So I decided to teach guitar for a while and emailed a couple guitar stores. Turns out one store just lost a full time teacher so I went down for a chat yesterday and got the job. I’ll be teaching about 60 students for starters starting next tuesday.

While the money is much less than I’m used to ($24/hr to start), I’m looking forward to getting into the music scene a bit more. I figure I’ll be able to chat with other musicians, check out guitar gear at the store and find out more about the local scene. I’m hoping to encourage some of the students to join my online coaching program.

The dream is to have an online business, work at home, remove the dependence on hourly pay but until that develops we have to keep doing the normal things everyone does.