Art Of Money

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. It’s been 13 months now since I have had a job, and I was just realizing today that the thought of taking a “vacation” hasn’t even crossed my mind the whole time.
I remember when I did work, I was constantly [...]

The $100 a Day Blogging Project is my step by step, all tips revealed, guide to taking this blog (and hopefully yours too) to the modest goal of $100 a day profit.
There are a lot easier ways to make $100 a day online, but most of them require more experience or specialized skills than blogging, [...]

My favorite Art Of Money entry is, hands down, Jon’s post on Flipping The Switch. 
Why?  Because it rang true for me also.
I have always flirted with entrepreneurship.  I ran businesses during high school.  I had much more to learn so I went to university.  Then I ran a business during a semester off.  Still [...]

When I first left home I ended up moving to the then boom town of Calgary where jobs were plentiful and money, relatively was big. After a couple weeks living in the youth hostel and scouring the city’s help wanted ads, I discovered that the “boom” was mostly available to experienced workers.
Then, through a friend, [...]

The next stop in my “Ways I’ve Made Money” saga was a brief summer job I had when I just turned 17 and my dad got me a job in the factory he worked at. There were two of us, son’s of a couple of the workers, hired on as “Materials Handlers.” Officially it was [...]

Now this article is going to date me so for all you young Internet whipper-snappers who are reading this, hang on to your hats - here comes a history lesson.
When I was about 11 I got my first job as a paperboy - I know that is a terribly politically incorrect term, but that’s [...]

I was reading over Yaro’s business timeline and it got me thinking about how I got to this point of my life. Yaro’s version, I printed it out, is about 17 pages long and I’m a lot older than he is, so I’m going to have to edit the story dramatically or Greenpeace will be [...]

Flip The Switch
On Friday I had a very enjoyable chat with markinjapan as the prize winner of my “improve my blog” contest. During the conversation I came to a realization about something that happened while I was still working, but was on the way to becoming a full-time entrepreneur.
I called it flipping the switch.
Before I [...]

Not going to work has become somewhat ‘normal’ as I turn the corner towards the end of one month out of the rat race, but today I was thinking about what is different now than when I went to the office 5 days a week
Work 12 hour days — still the same.
Get up [...]

Today I was experiencing the usual weekend sense of joy and freedom, but I noticed that it had a little extra sweetness. Something like that decompressed feeling of not having to go to work, but then I realized that it’s the weekend, but there is no week coming up! Eternal weekend [well for a minimum [...]