He's marvellous in his openness - but in many aspects, writing for John *is* the dayjob (the financial stuff); and the fiction is only an additional thing.
And I dare say he's in the top 1% of earners :-(
But yeah, fascinating stuff. Particularly about developing a business sense - ouch.
Hmm, it's got me wondering about tech writing. Unfortunately, I suspect the answer is that it'd involve being self-employed and that'd prevent me using it to bootstrap my way off benefits at any pace other than diving straight in with full risk.
You could check elance.com or guru.com, and start small there. If you're outside USA (which I believe you are) there's no requirement to send tax info, and you could just leave the money you earn there if you're paranoid about payouts being traced to you (or take out less than the tax-free limit, if that doesn't affect the benefits).
Once you've got a few projects under your belt, you can go self-employed with an existing track record and customer base.
Me, I'm the "good income and benefits" partner of an artist (http://catroll.elance.com/), so I'm sort of seeing the other side of the coin on that.
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Date: 2008-02-11 12:59 pm (UTC)And I dare say he's in the top 1% of earners :-(
But yeah, fascinating stuff. Particularly about developing a business sense - ouch.
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:50 pm (UTC)Once you've got a few projects under your belt, you can go self-employed with an existing track record and customer base.
Me, I'm the "good income and benefits" partner of an artist (http://catroll.elance.com/), so I'm sort of seeing the other side of the coin on that.