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March Experiment
9 years ago
Still not having any luck with the job search and I absolutely refuse to go through another horrific summer at my current job. So, we're going to try something a little different a few weeks from now. I've reserved the third week of March [the 14th to the 18th] for a little stay-cation...except that rather than kicking back and relaxing, I'm going to be conducting a week long experiment.
I've done the math on my current income. Between what gets taken out of my paycheck for taxes, healthcare, and 401K stuff per week, I really only make about $7.30 an hour. Assuming a typical full time schedule is 5 eight hour shifts per week [roughly $60 a day], the experiment is to see if I can at least maintain the status quo of $300 that I normally bring home per week. If I can do that much [or if somehow I surprise myself and make closer to $400-500] I'm going to start looking into healthcare costs and tax law to see how pheasible a freelance gig would be.
What does that mean for watchers and commissioners? Probably several sets of adoptables and some fairly quick/simple YCH things that week. Depending on how much I make and how much time it all takes, I may consider reopening my Patreon with some new tiers/offerings. The goal going forward would be to try to work on quick, little things Mon-Fri and use the weekends for more in depth/complicated projects, commissions, and/or comics.
If anyone who works from home/self employed has any recommendations or advice it would be greatly appreciated. Again, not going jumping off the deep end just yet, but I'll experiment for a week to get a sense for how successful the concept would be.
I've done the math on my current income. Between what gets taken out of my paycheck for taxes, healthcare, and 401K stuff per week, I really only make about $7.30 an hour. Assuming a typical full time schedule is 5 eight hour shifts per week [roughly $60 a day], the experiment is to see if I can at least maintain the status quo of $300 that I normally bring home per week. If I can do that much [or if somehow I surprise myself and make closer to $400-500] I'm going to start looking into healthcare costs and tax law to see how pheasible a freelance gig would be.
What does that mean for watchers and commissioners? Probably several sets of adoptables and some fairly quick/simple YCH things that week. Depending on how much I make and how much time it all takes, I may consider reopening my Patreon with some new tiers/offerings. The goal going forward would be to try to work on quick, little things Mon-Fri and use the weekends for more in depth/complicated projects, commissions, and/or comics.
If anyone who works from home/self employed has any recommendations or advice it would be greatly appreciated. Again, not going jumping off the deep end just yet, but I'll experiment for a week to get a sense for how successful the concept would be.
