Dream Job

My dream job has always been to write. To write a novel or be a freelance writer or even be a songwriter. I've played in many bands but I never really wanted to be the onstage, touring, famous musician. I would much rather just be a songwriter. Kind of like Robbie Hart (The Wedding Singer though I shouldn't need to tell anyone that). Recently I've been kind of unhappy with my current career choice. I enjoy building but I don't think it's for me on a full time basis. I want to be able to be home with my family more and I want to work in a less dangerous environment. I had this weird thought about how hard I worked to get my current company going and how successful I was. In no way am I a huge company, but I've been working steadily through a failing economy and pulling in jobs pretty well. If I can do that for construction work, I can do it for anything. I wanted to change jobs before and rushed into something that was not for me at the promise of a possible six figure income. But even the short time I tried it I was miserable. So as long is it's something I love to do, I think I can make a new career work really well. I have a lot of drive when I get my mind set on something. So I'm signed up for a couple freelance writing classes at Portland Community College this summer. I am reorganizing all my writing. I have been creating a list of ideas for article to write that I can sell freelance. I have a couple of novels I am partially done with that I'm putting together outlines to get them finished so I can just self-publish them online (on paper and through the kindle). I'm going to take it one step at a time and just do a little building and do a little writing and see where it takes me. My dream is to be able to freelance full time so I can work from home and we can also travel more since I would be able to write from anywhere. Like buy an RV and just cruise around while I write. That would be fun.

All the people that say, "oh, you can't do that now that you have a kid." Screw those people. We can do anything we want if we put our minds to it and I plan on teaching Elliott the same thing. If Krystal and I both put our minds to it and get determined enough we can make our dreams happen.