I’ve had a lot going on. Too much, in fact. But now I’m slimming it down. I’ve finally found my focus, and now I’m going to move forward with it. I suppose a little background information is in order…

I don’t like working a regular job. Maybe that’s due to the fact that I embarked on the wrong career, but it might just be a facet of my personality. I just don’t like being an employee. Sure, I’ve had “issues” with authority for as long as I can remember (a genetic trait — my two year old is the same way), but my natural rebellion isn’t why I don’t make a good employee. I learned long ago to temper that.

I just don’t fit in a job. Reporting to work at the same time each day, wearing appropriate attire, leaving work at the same time each day, not getting stuff done during the day that needs to get done… I could go on and on. One day, it occurred to me that the work I was doing was simply putting money in the pocket of my employer. Lots of money. Why wasn’t I working to put that “lots of money” into my own pocket? That seemed the logical course of action to me. It made more sense to me than just sitting at my desk working as some nameless part of a giant corporate machine, making it richer while I get a barely functional salary.

So I set off. I played around with several small business ideas, trying to get out of the corporate world. And for you readers who are wondering, there’s a world of difference between a corporation, and “the corporate world.” Just so you know. Anyway, I tried all sorts of things, trying to make money so I wouldn’t have to go to a regular job every day.

Here I am, today, finding my focus and moving toward it. I tried online retail sales. I didn’t exactly fail miserably, but after a year online, I shut down my store. It didn’t mesh with my focus, and would take much more work and time than I had to make it what it needed to be, so I decided to drop it.

You see, I’ve known what my focus should be for quite some time, but how do you monetize writing? You see, that’s me, and that’s what I like to do. I write. It’s what gives me a sense of reward and accomplishment. Writing a 40,000 word book from my little desk (even for no money) gave me so much more personal sense of accomplishment than any project at my “real job.” So here I am, finally figuring out to how to make money while writing.

Copywriting, business communications, resume writing, and other such work is out there everywhere. So there’s my focus. I’m dropping everything that doesn’t apply, and moving forward with my writing business. It’s what I want to do, and I’m putting all of my efforts toward that goal. No more splitting my time between this or that…and ending up nowhere. Too many forks were in my road in the past, but no longer. Now I know where I’m going. Now I know I’ll get there.