I have to admit that I think this self employment thing is for me. I think my boss might be a bit soft though. She lets me sleep in until 11am, take long lunch breaks surf the internet far to often, and knock off early. I’m making up for it though by working on the weekend so maybe she’s not a total pushover.

I quit my regular job last Wednesday and on Thursday morning, my first day of freedom, I was woken up at 6am by the sounds of a yapping Chihuahua running down the street and my stressed out housemate chasing it, Benny Hill style, trying to get the thing back inside. The first thing I did was laugh, the second thing I did was glance over at my clock to see how much longer I could sleep for before getting up for work. It took a few minutes for it to register that I didn’t have to get up for work at all and it was a damn fine feeling, let me tell ya!

I’m just over a week into working for myself and, while I haven’t really managed to get much done, I am making a bit of progress here and there. I don’t feel so bad about having those wasted days where I spend all my time working on something complicated, accomplish nothing but learn a few new things in the process. In the past, I didn’t have time to mess about with this sort of stuff but now I can see the benefits behind the learning and if I have to waste a day or two then it’s not the big deal it used to be because I’ll have plenty of time the next day to get things done.

I’ve got until January 7th before heading off on my travels and I’m going to set a few goals here so I know what I need to get done before I go.

• Build Wanderstruck.com - This will be my regular travel blog as well as a travel magazine type site and I want to have it up and running by the time I leave so I can update it on the road without any hassles. So far Ive been tweaking a theme and have learned a lot of CSS but there are some things I want to do that are a bit tricky and that has me worried.
• Sort out my revenue an expenses and get an accountant - I’m avoiding this but it needs to be done. Sorting out my revenue will be easy but I’m not sure what I can count towards my expenses, especially once I hit the road, and that’s where the accountant comes in. I’m hoping it’ll just involve a day or two of research and a couple emails or phone calls. Once I get this figure out it’ll be a big weight off.
• Finish my working holidays site - I have a lot of books here at home that will help me with research for this site. I won’t be carting them around with me so that means Id better get cracking and finish this thing finally.
• Transfer hosts for one of my sites - I need to move a site from Powweb to Dreamhost to save myself $100 when my hosting needs to be renewed in February. This isn’t the sort of thing I’ll want to do when I’m travelling so I need to set aside a few hours to do this. I also need to add Server Side Includes into this site to make updating easier. I’ll probably kll the forum as well because it’s a pain in my arse so I’ll need to use the info in the posts to write up some more articles.

I asked my boss and she says I can have the week around Xmas off so I’ll have a lot to cram in after the holidays. If I can’t manage a post between now and then, have a good Santa day!

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