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Self Employment is Good for Me
I have been working for myself for a long time now, and I think it was one of the best decisions of my life. There is some power in setting your own hours, working on your own tasks and taking responsibility for your own financial affairs.
The only thing that I don't do so well with is getting everything done in a timely fashion. Since there is no one making sure I get things done, I need to make sure that I take responsibily for getting things done on time. The work that I am doing today is a wonderful example of work that I do. I have been selecting some Ontario stock photoss for a text book contract that I am working on. Sure, it is fun, but sometimes you get sick of looking at pictures of barns, right?
This job would be a lot less fun if it wasn't for the freedom provided by my Dell laptop. Having a laptop has allowed me the freedom of not being tied to a desk which sure beats the corporate world. I can take my work with me whereever I go. I have done my job at a coffee shop, at the library, or even outside on a sunny day. Having this kind of freedom is one of the best reasons that I can think of for working at home.
But it has been a long road to get to this point. I had to spend many years working up the corporate ladder, and putting in long hours. I just about went through divorce a couple of times because of my dedication to my work instead of my family. It was those years of sacrifice that paved the way for me to work on my own today.
I also love the fact that there is some variety as to what I get to do. For example, I might be picking out pictures for a client one day, and then working on doing some bookeeping the next. I love facing new challenges each and every day. At least working is never boring.
I don't think that I will ever quit cold turkey when I retire. I mean, if I can have an income without having to work fulltime and yet I can still make a good income to do the things I love, why would I quit? I see many of my friends retire and go out to get a minimum wage part time job. It doesn't make sense to give up a high paying job for something that would barely keep you alive - I just don't understand why people do it. I will never be one of them.
So, I should get back to “work” and pick out these pictures. Maybe I will quit work early today and go to a movie. That would be great!
Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle (crunchgear?)
What exactly is a PC? That question is likely to become a hot topic over the
next few years. Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM
PC. They were machines that had to sit on a desk because, while significantly
smaller than a mainframe, they were still big and bulky. They had large
monitors, boxy bases, and big keyboards. The original Macintosh attempted to
make this footprint a bit smaller and the package more compact, but the IBM
clones won the day. Windows won the day. PCs by Compaq and HP led to machines
by Gateway and Dell. Boxy bases were joined by massive towers. Bigger seemed
better. Small monitors were replaced by huge monitors. Then something changed.
While laptops had existed in various forms for years, by the mid 2000s, the
prices, performance, and size made them viable "desktop replacements". They
were different enough from traditional PCs that they had their own name, and
people thought of them differently. But eventually, as they started to
dominate the market, people just began thinking of laptops as PCs as well.
They were, after all, personal computers.
IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet Laptop
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