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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014025)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| never had the time to finish my muse-the interview guide. But I was getting tons of requests to do |
| consulting from my readers, so I started with resume editing and expanded into mock interviews-yes, |
| not very "muse-like" but I charged high rates and could make my old salary in a fraction of the time. I |
| did this ALL while staying completely anonymous out of necessity - because I didn't want to get fired |
| without an alternative income stream. Amazingly, my services took off even though I couldn't tell |
| anyone who I was. |
| At the same time, I decided I would not get another job in finance, and would instead leave in June |
| 2008. So I had a very short amount of time to make everything work. Almost every single one of my |
| friends, roommates, and family doubted me and said it would never work. I decided they were all wrong |
| and I would just do it anyway -worst-case scenario, I could always reduce my expenses and move to |
| Thailand to teach English. |
| To boost my income, I completely revamped my site to sell more of my offerings, which took me |
| from pocket change to full-time income from part-time consulting over July-August 2008. This allowed |
| me to travel to Hawaii and Aruba to go snorkeling, surfing, and shark-cage-diving and visit friends in |
| other parts of the U.S. all while making an investment banker's income from part-time work. |
| As the recession and economy worsened, my business picked up because it was counter-cyclical - |
| anything that helps people find jobs is in huge demand in a poor economy. I've since helped scores of |
| laid-off bankers and other financiers find work elsewhere. However, I was also starting to work a lot |
| more because I was effectively trading time for money ... so over the fall I started to work on my |
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| consulting on the side (10 hours). So you could say I've increased my income almost 3x while reducing |
| my hours 6x-9x and making myself completely mobile. |
| I admit that often I do "work" more than this, but it's all on related educational projects that I want to |
| work on, not anything that I have to work on. And if I don't feel like working one week, I can reduce my |
| hours to the 5-15 hour range and spend my time on learning languages, sports, or traveling to exotic |
| destinations. |
| This setup allowed me to take an amazing trip to China, Singapore, Thailand, and Korea in December- |
| January and get in some ridiculous adventures. I'll be moving to Asia in a few months and after that, |
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| WHO SAYS KIDS HOLD YOU BACK? |
| My first action was to think "what is the worst that can happen on a scale of 1-10" if I quit my well- |
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| I quit my job, sold my house, and went camping for three months with two kids under two and a half |
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| immediate worries, I put into action a plan that I had been tinkering with for 12 months. I bought a |
| wireless Internet dongle and created an info product for electrical engineers, and wrote some software to |
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