What does it take to be lucrative in the freesite game nowadays?

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

wow, juggernaut - I have never responded to one of your posts before but I gotta say this was excellent. You are right - I had a govt job that would be considered 'cushy' and it would've taken me probably another 2-3 yrs to make that kind of $ (in comparable CAD of course )

the thing here is that I WAS making 35k, which is not too shoddy, now me - I consider myself lucky to get a cheque each week

but I know that it's coming along. It's getting there that hurts lol, and a lot of folks can't wait that long, that's all.

Ponygirl

Well I have to commend you for leaving. I worked in the gov for 8 years and was pulling in some nice cash, gs-11 in the tech sector with an extra 10k and of course the local pay. In the end it was around 65k but I left back in April, stress was killing me and my marrage. But just to prove my point with this guy, guess what? I went back, not to the same place but once and old friend found out I left they pretty much begged me to come work for them on the contractor side, which I will say is a lot less stressful. The reason I went back for for a few. 1) I got tired of sitting in the house. 2) I got tired of sitting home and having my wife make all the money doing what she is doing (I just felt it was unfair) 3) the money was such a large increase I would have to been a moron to turn it down. But this type of money I'm making now only came after years of EXP.
Real nice thing is this, I love my site and so does my wife. I really enjoy working on it and now we have the funds to do what ever we want with it. It has now turned back into a fun hobby that with hard work we hope will turn into a profitible business. But if not, then we can at least say we tried and had fun along the way.. Cause for us in the end thats all that matters. Ok I wont post on me any more, I dont want to take over this topic. I think it's a very good one and should stay on point..