Looking at job listings in NYC, and jobs in SF that may help me relocate to NYC at some point, and I can’t avoid a common takeaway: I don’t want to do the majority of these jobs.

So, while I’ll keep applying to only the amazing options, I think my focus needs to be on exiting the system altogether and getting my social networks up to snuff and earning.

This is mainly just ensuring I put aside enough money to hire a developer in the short term, and then launch the sites before summer.

I’ve also been doing some work on the side, which is interesting, but ultimately may not bring in enough money to justify the lost hours.

I have a habit of not doing anything that will help me personally when I have a job. I gain weight. Work out less. East the wrong (vegan) foods more often. Stop reading. Stop writing. And the only thing that is accomplished is the 40 hours.

That said, I do a good job for my employers, but it is rarely anything I see as useful long-term.

None of this is new to me. But I think it finally needs to be phased out, if possible.

I need a job where I set my own hours, and the only shifting of gears is between working on my websites and working on my writing. The other upside of the website option is that it is portable.

Ideally, I’d like a system where I could just decide to work in Austin for 6 months, and then Italy for 6 months, etc., and make my input to the websites minimal enough to matter, but not be required. I’d mainly be working on rolling out new features, expanding the membership, and providing value. Unlike a blog where it is all about me hunting everything down material every day.

So, after I finish up this current freelance gig, all my time wll go to the business plan for the site, locking down what it needs to have, what is required to build it, what I can outsource (data entry), what I can do, what the developer will need to do, etc.

I’ve got to grab this by the reigns and start steering this ship in another direction.