I checked with HR at Wal-Mart to find out what changes occur when I go from full-time to part-time. The main change is that I will not have sick pay and my vacation pay will accrue at a slower rate. When I get closer to going part-time I will find out exactly what I would’ve had for sick and vacation pay. Before I go part-time, I will make sure that I have that equivalent in savings.
At some point, I will figure out what I want my “benefits” to be as a self-employed woman on her way to financial freedom from passive income. I will have my benfits equivalent in its own savings account. My self-employment income goals will not include my benifit package (savings).
For now I’m very happy and excited to have more than the hours I’m cutting back at Wal-Mart covered with the income I’m getting from writing. I’m also looking forward to having more time to write which will increase my self-employment income. With just the work I have now, I’m under my earning potential due to not enough time available.
I can’t work on savings right now due to I’m in desperate need of the income, but that will pass. By the beginning of the year I plan to have one part-time job and writing full-time! By my birthday I plan to have my self-employment benefits package in savings.
Organizing has been a priority lately as more writing jobs are coming in. I wrote a post on this Wickefire thread, How do you stay organized? There are some other posts on it with good information also.
I have today and tomorrow off from one of my wage earning jobs. Tomorrow is busy with some appt and my second job. Today is time with my daughter and one meeting at church. I hope to catch up on writing jobs and writing for my own projects. I can hardly wait until Saturday when my hours will be reduced at Wal-mart! I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed lately, but at the same time excited as my Jan’s Writing Services is growing! 
Since my strength is writing and blogs, I always thought I could get a blog set up to “run” itself. I never had a complete plan or got started. I finally did!
Here is the plan
GOAL-Have a blog with 365 posts (yes…that is one post everyday)
CHOOSE TOPIC-Daily general living inspiration
CHOOSE NAME-Go Forth Today
SET UP
- Create a sub-domain on one of my general use domains
- Add Wordpress
- Chose a WP theme
- Change the code to remove the year from each post
- Add Adsense and Shopping Ads
PROCESS
- Write 12 posts (one per month) before beginning anything
- Write 3 more blocks of 12 posts until I have 365 posts
- Evaluate
- Fine tune
REPEAT
- Use final process to make another blog
- Add to the process
- Keyword research
- Traffic
- SEO
- Once money is being made I will repeat with blogs that have their own .info domain
- The blogs that are the most successful will be used as a starting point for related websites and blogs with .com domains
Today I have 4 articles written. I just wanted to get started on something and I can write fast on the topic I chose. I am resisting doing anything else right now so that I can finish up some crafts by Sat and fulfill current writing orders.