Its been a while, nearly 6 months. Since the idea of seeking out steady employment has crossed my mind. I was very happy just taking in small freelance projects and working very busily on the social networking experiment. Not being a very good programmer has made that quite a task! I think I’ve started to finally learn a bit about managing a team and trying to balance priorities with individuals based on their skills, although… i still just wanted to do everything myself! Have I grown? Have my skills overall gotten better? I hope so!

There are a lot… perhaps too many ideas and solutions that bounce around my head on a regular basis. But before I lightly touch on all of that. Let me state the current situation and the end goal.

Currently : I do not have a lot of money.

End Goal : I want to buy a house or sweet apartment in ugh… New York City where I live.

With that being said, I’ve noticed that some people make a pretty mean passive income from their blog. Passive income is this wonderful thing, where traffic and a few ads will just magically make you money every month. MAGIC MONEY. Sounds pretty sweet to me. I could use some magic money, couldn’t you?

Sucking it up and finding employment might be the immediate solution. I don’t really want to run into another Atari type situation. Where I felt overly ambitious and felt it my sole responsibility to try and alter the course of the historic company. But, its been so long, I am really out of the loop. I wanted to like, get a brochure together and make sure the social networking site was all up and running before I started to contact the serious people I know. But… perhaps that isn’t the best thing to do. I don’t want to scare off potential people who want to pay me money after all, by having too much of my own thing running.

There is the idea of getting some start up money, for a video game / new media company. There is trying to get money for JUST the social experiment… but some part of me likes that its pure. And untouched by big scary people money.

Then there is always the idea of getting super aggressive with freelance. Problem is I would have to charge a lot of money in order to make that work. Since so much of freelance is tracking projects, meeting people etc etc.

But I will run this little mini-series here in my blog, keep my very few readers up to date on my job hunting activity. I made my first step today and contacted an interesting work associate. Mr. David Pierce, who has just left Atari. It will be nice to touch base with him and to really… just seek some advice from an older professional.

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