joelsuf
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So on the other Alpha 2 board, I decided to post a thread detailing my methods of accumulating location independent income. I will start this anew here, but anybody who is coming here from the other Alpha 2 board will know what this is about. So if you just want the gory details you can skip this post, although you may still want to check it out because I'll be inserting things about my background in the workforce and what I currently do. That's what this first post is gonna be.
My employment background
Pretty much from 18 until 35, I have not worked any jobs of value. My first job was at a supermarket at 18 and the last job I held was for UPS at the end of 2017. In between this, I worked for retail joints, call centers, and when I was in college I did dorm security for a couple years. The longest job I held was at a Circle K that I was able to walk to. I worked there for close to a decade while floundering in college, not really caring about how good I did or what kind of skills I learned. I only got a promotion at that job because my boss needed help with inventory audits. I didn't care about getting the promotion, really. But I still felt like it was an accomplishment. I got said promotion at 31, five years after starting that job at 26.
I wrote about this kind of thing in my blog a few months ago if you want even more information.
Despite going to college and taking out ridiculous amounts of money in student loans, I still didn't think it was possible to get a job that paid any more than $25k per year at all. My gas station job was self supervised so I still wanted a job like that, and I didn't think I was qualified for any other kind of job. I also didn't want a job that completely took my soul away. So for me location independent income is my only way out of all this.
My concept of location independent income
To me, location independent income has the following criteria:
-You sell stuff from anywhere in the world
-You don't go somewhere and punch a time clock
-You get assignments with due dates and set your own hours
-You don't fill out a W-2 form before starting a job
In these examples I'm still trading out time for money but at least I don't have to go somewhere and stay there for 9 hours to do it. If I want to work only 20 hours I can but if I want to work 80 hours I can also do that. To me that's what location independent income is.
My forms of location independent income
I didn't really take my livelihood seriously until 2016 or so when I first discovered Alpha 2 stuff. I also made my blog that year, then another one the year after that, in 2017. And right before 2019 I wrote my first e-book and began selling it. I have written a lot more e-books since then but I don't have sales pages for them and I haven't put them up for sale yet but I will soon. I learned how to self-publish e-books from reading this article about it from Bold and Determined. It's not too difficult, really. All you need is to host a website (with bluehost, hostgator, whatever), know a little bit about WordPress (or just pay someone on fiverr or upwork to make the website for you), make an e-junkie account, and boom.
So that's one of my location independent income sources, although it is the worst performing since nobody knows about the e-books cuz I don't have money for adversising lol. It's pretty much about overcoming hypersensitivity that one could possibly develop from nasty game changing life events or forces telling you to go Beta or Alpha 1 and instead getting on the path to being Alpha 2.
While the Unchained Man is about going from Alpha 1/Beta to Alpha 2, Why so Butthurt is about going from a directionless broken Omega dealing with depression, low self esteem, and suicidal ideation like I was straight to Alpha 2 which was a decade or so long process for me. I feel like there aren't a lot of genuine resources for omega males (or omega chicks) out there so I decided to write about it from all angles. Most of my e-books are designed for people who are looking for a way out of their self hatred and who want to make sense of all the bullshit around them which I think will be in high demand going into the 2020s for pretty much everyone; man, woman, trans, whatever. But mostly dudes.
My other source of location independent income is freelance writing. About 2 years ago, I came home from grave shift at my gas station job and decided to day drink with the guy I was living with. I made an upwork account out of drunken curiosity and the rest as they say is history. Two years later and I have made almost $8000 from freelance writing. You can check out my upwork profile here if any of you want to hire me as a writer hehe. I usually charge $.17 a word but if you know me from this community I'll only charge $.07
I had a couple of slip ups in my freelance writing as of recent but nearly all of my reviews have been really good. I will probably stop using upwork so much because they will soon charge freelancers to hunt for gigs which isn't cool. So I'm probably gonna fry out all my "connects" and just hope. Then I'll make other "work" social media accounts (like LinkedIn and Indeed) and post my portfolio there. Freelance writing is one of my main sources of location independent income at the moment.
My third source of location independent income is driving for Uber and Lyft. I started doing this when 2019 began and I really wish I had done it earlier because holy crap is it lucrative and fun. Since late March, I've been delivering for Uber eats and I can easily make at least $50 in about 4-6 hours across 10 or so deliveries. The deliveries themselves don't take that long, that's just how long my app is on during the day. You could make the argument that this is location dependent because I need to be driving places in order to make money, but at least I can do that on my own dime.
Profitable hobbies
I also have profitable hobbies, which as of now is only bowling related stuff. Something I might do in the future is become a certified bowling coach and start coaching people. I'm joining a league in May, so if I get certification I can probably coach people in the league if they see me bust out 220+ games constantly lol (I average about 210ish in bowling...without practicing to give some perspective).
When I lived in South Florida, I was able to play blackjack as a profitable hobby. And if I made the money I make now back then, it would have actually been pretty good. I learned how to be an advantage player and it does make a difference. But there are no casinos here in Tallahassee so no blackjack at the moment.
Video game streamers make good money and I was going to do that as well, but I don't think I have the following to stream myself playing video games. Although now that I have a decent apartment I might actually get back into doing this, and stream video games every night or something. I do speedrunning (beating a game as fast as possible) and it's becoming very popular these days. If I have a decent following and am entertaining enough I'm sure video game streaming can be a profitable hobby. But the jury's out on that.
So to recap, here are my three sources of location independent income:
When I first started tracking location independent income last year, I wanted to be able to make $1000 a month across my one form of location independent income (freelance writing) and my hobbies. After I picked up Uber/Lyft driving I was able to decisively make $1000 a month. Currently my goal is $50-$100 per day, or about $2000 per month. This is across all forms of income and profitable hobbies.
Sorry about this novel of a first post but I felt like it was necessary. I'll be tracking my numbers and news surrounding my numbers in every post from now on. I'll begin with the month of April.
My employment background
Pretty much from 18 until 35, I have not worked any jobs of value. My first job was at a supermarket at 18 and the last job I held was for UPS at the end of 2017. In between this, I worked for retail joints, call centers, and when I was in college I did dorm security for a couple years. The longest job I held was at a Circle K that I was able to walk to. I worked there for close to a decade while floundering in college, not really caring about how good I did or what kind of skills I learned. I only got a promotion at that job because my boss needed help with inventory audits. I didn't care about getting the promotion, really. But I still felt like it was an accomplishment. I got said promotion at 31, five years after starting that job at 26.
I wrote about this kind of thing in my blog a few months ago if you want even more information.
Despite going to college and taking out ridiculous amounts of money in student loans, I still didn't think it was possible to get a job that paid any more than $25k per year at all. My gas station job was self supervised so I still wanted a job like that, and I didn't think I was qualified for any other kind of job. I also didn't want a job that completely took my soul away. So for me location independent income is my only way out of all this.
My concept of location independent income
To me, location independent income has the following criteria:
-You sell stuff from anywhere in the world
-You don't go somewhere and punch a time clock
-You get assignments with due dates and set your own hours
-You don't fill out a W-2 form before starting a job
In these examples I'm still trading out time for money but at least I don't have to go somewhere and stay there for 9 hours to do it. If I want to work only 20 hours I can but if I want to work 80 hours I can also do that. To me that's what location independent income is.
My forms of location independent income
I didn't really take my livelihood seriously until 2016 or so when I first discovered Alpha 2 stuff. I also made my blog that year, then another one the year after that, in 2017. And right before 2019 I wrote my first e-book and began selling it. I have written a lot more e-books since then but I don't have sales pages for them and I haven't put them up for sale yet but I will soon. I learned how to self-publish e-books from reading this article about it from Bold and Determined. It's not too difficult, really. All you need is to host a website (with bluehost, hostgator, whatever), know a little bit about WordPress (or just pay someone on fiverr or upwork to make the website for you), make an e-junkie account, and boom.
So that's one of my location independent income sources, although it is the worst performing since nobody knows about the e-books cuz I don't have money for adversising lol. It's pretty much about overcoming hypersensitivity that one could possibly develop from nasty game changing life events or forces telling you to go Beta or Alpha 1 and instead getting on the path to being Alpha 2.
While the Unchained Man is about going from Alpha 1/Beta to Alpha 2, Why so Butthurt is about going from a directionless broken Omega dealing with depression, low self esteem, and suicidal ideation like I was straight to Alpha 2 which was a decade or so long process for me. I feel like there aren't a lot of genuine resources for omega males (or omega chicks) out there so I decided to write about it from all angles. Most of my e-books are designed for people who are looking for a way out of their self hatred and who want to make sense of all the bullshit around them which I think will be in high demand going into the 2020s for pretty much everyone; man, woman, trans, whatever. But mostly dudes.
My other source of location independent income is freelance writing. About 2 years ago, I came home from grave shift at my gas station job and decided to day drink with the guy I was living with. I made an upwork account out of drunken curiosity and the rest as they say is history. Two years later and I have made almost $8000 from freelance writing. You can check out my upwork profile here if any of you want to hire me as a writer hehe. I usually charge $.17 a word but if you know me from this community I'll only charge $.07
I had a couple of slip ups in my freelance writing as of recent but nearly all of my reviews have been really good. I will probably stop using upwork so much because they will soon charge freelancers to hunt for gigs which isn't cool. So I'm probably gonna fry out all my "connects" and just hope. Then I'll make other "work" social media accounts (like LinkedIn and Indeed) and post my portfolio there. Freelance writing is one of my main sources of location independent income at the moment.
My third source of location independent income is driving for Uber and Lyft. I started doing this when 2019 began and I really wish I had done it earlier because holy crap is it lucrative and fun. Since late March, I've been delivering for Uber eats and I can easily make at least $50 in about 4-6 hours across 10 or so deliveries. The deliveries themselves don't take that long, that's just how long my app is on during the day. You could make the argument that this is location dependent because I need to be driving places in order to make money, but at least I can do that on my own dime.
Profitable hobbies
I also have profitable hobbies, which as of now is only bowling related stuff. Something I might do in the future is become a certified bowling coach and start coaching people. I'm joining a league in May, so if I get certification I can probably coach people in the league if they see me bust out 220+ games constantly lol (I average about 210ish in bowling...without practicing to give some perspective).
When I lived in South Florida, I was able to play blackjack as a profitable hobby. And if I made the money I make now back then, it would have actually been pretty good. I learned how to be an advantage player and it does make a difference. But there are no casinos here in Tallahassee so no blackjack at the moment.
Video game streamers make good money and I was going to do that as well, but I don't think I have the following to stream myself playing video games. Although now that I have a decent apartment I might actually get back into doing this, and stream video games every night or something. I do speedrunning (beating a game as fast as possible) and it's becoming very popular these days. If I have a decent following and am entertaining enough I'm sure video game streaming can be a profitable hobby. But the jury's out on that.
So to recap, here are my three sources of location independent income:
- Selling e-books (and other stuff eventually) on my website.
- Freelance writing (mainly on upwork, but I'm looking for other platforms)
- Uber and Lyft driving
- Bowling: Competing and possibly coaching
- Blackjack: Can't do this at the moment cuz I'm not around any casinos
- Video game streaming: This is up in the air for now
When I first started tracking location independent income last year, I wanted to be able to make $1000 a month across my one form of location independent income (freelance writing) and my hobbies. After I picked up Uber/Lyft driving I was able to decisively make $1000 a month. Currently my goal is $50-$100 per day, or about $2000 per month. This is across all forms of income and profitable hobbies.
Sorry about this novel of a first post but I felt like it was necessary. I'll be tracking my numbers and news surrounding my numbers in every post from now on. I'll begin with the month of April.
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