I want this blog to be a journal of my complete journey in setting up my home business , but since I started MadLuck Books Personalized Books back in September of 2005, this post will be a timeline of everything I've done up to June 2005. Well probably not everything. (I know I got link happy back there but I just discovered the little link button on the toolbar - so much easier than going in and editing the HTML.) Next Post will be the timeline from June 2005 to the present.
Summer 1996 - I quit my job to stay home with my first born child, Maddie, while my wife goes back to work as a teacher. I am supposed to be finishing my Master's Degree in Environmental Science and Engineering (I had completed the course work and "just" needed to finish up the Thesis.) Instead I spend most of my free time (you know, when I am not changing diaper, feeding, reading to, playing with the rug rat) doing one of two things - 1) Writing fiction and dreaming of publishing that bestseller novel. 2) Thinking about starting a home based business (hey, I liked this staying at home thing, what can I say.)
Spring 1998 - Second daughter, Lucia is born. I go back to work, my wife stays home with the kids. I get a job that pays me for 40 hours a week but only takes about 5 hours of my time. I just about finish the Thesis during the "free" time.
Fall 1999 - Real job as an Environmental Health Specialist, doing ambient air monitoring. Finish thesis and get M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech.
1999-2005 - Work, work, work; commute, commute, commute. The commute is only 25 miles one way, but with traffic, the drive can take up to an hour and a half. I begin working earlier and earlier - 8:00 start, 7:00 start, finally 6:00 am start. I get up at 4:00 in the morning to get to work by 6:00. At 5:00 am the traffic is often bumper to bumper. They keep building more houses and the commute gets worse and worse. The job's ok, as far as jobs go, fairly low stress, boring at times, for a while there I actually found time to write fiction on my lunch break (the novel, no best seller, unpublishable at least for the moment.) They cut our work force from three to two which cuts out the time for writing. Blah, blah, blah.
June 2005 - See The Beginning
Next Post - Countdown to Quiting the Day Job (Timeline Part 2)
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