Dateline 4-17-2017

Once again, I wish I could figure out how to get paid anything to do what I do. As I continue to wait to move on with the hiring process for the latest job that has unofficially offered me a position, some of my stresses have eased. Sure I'm still stressed out about when I will actually start or whether or not it will fall through, but having this potential new permit job has allowed me to take a bit of a break from the worries that come with a job hunt.

With the job hunt out of the way, I got the chance to experience life if I was purely making a living by doing this blog. That's not really to say that I feel I reached the level of putting out the high-quality content that warrants a livable wage but it was nice to live the life through daydreams.

 If I was doing this for a living, I would probably start another challenge or experiment to fill the time that I'd have from not needing an extra job but other than that, I feel I could live a pretty satisfied existence. 

I love being able to wake when I wake without the need for an alarm, and no this isn't my way of saying that I like to sleep in. I just have problems with insomnia so I never know when I'm actually going to fall asleep. Being in control of my own schedule allows me to vary my waking times in order to compensate.

Next, I start listening to my morning news sources while I get my beverages for the day in order, filling my water, making coffee if I'm on a coffee kick, or maybe Soda Steaming up an energy drink if I don't want hot caffeine. 

Once the drinks are lined up on my computer desk, I move on to making breakfast. Again, since I can set my own pace to the day, I'm less likely to eat grab and go foods so I've been eating much healthier meals. I'm excited because I just bought an Instant Pot so my range of meal is much greater.

By the time breakfast is done I'm usually close to being caught up on the news, so I sit and watch the last couple stories as I eat my meal and check my email. I usually try to respond to every email right away but I barely get anything noteworthy anymore in my email, so this part of my day is mainly devoted to deleting junk.

I think of what I want to write about in my Daily Breaker post during this preproductive process and by the time I'm fed, I'm usually ready to ramble out what I want to say. I then spend the next eight to ten hours bouncing back and forth between working on the blog and performing random online tasks that earn me the tiny bits of money that I use to struggle on while faking 'til making my dreams.

It's these extra tasks that get in my way. If I had a passive source of income or figured out how to make money off of my words, I'd get back into my fictional writing to fill in the gaps of available time.

Even if it wasn't that passive of an income, all I need to do is figure out how to make $1000 a month. I'd then find some small town where the rent is super cheap and then just settle in to write out the rest of my life. $12,000 a year isn't really all that much to ask. I just don't want to have to leave the house to earn it.

Oh well, we'll see what I come up with. I'm in a much better place mentally than I was this time last year, and ten times better than the year before and I feel like, other than a few minor setbacks, I'm continuing to make positive steps toward the future.

Now it's time to head off to the grocery store to start testing healthy food in my Instant Pot. I'll let you know what I come up with tomorrow.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker