My Self-Employed Life

Note: This is Part Two in my My Money Rules series.  Once upon a time, I was a spendthrift. I bought things to fill a void, to make up for loneliness. I was a recent college grad, and everything was in flux. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, I had […]

If you want to work for yourself, you need to have (or develop) a healthy relationship with money. You need to know how to bring in enough income to pay your bills (and yourself). You need to know how to keep your bills manageable enough that you can choose the work you want to do.

I’m working on a few new prints. And I have to admit that these prints are coming pretty easily to me. Of course, after the technically challenging peacocky prints anything would probably feel easy. But here’s the dilemma – how do I price these prints? Is it unfair of me to charge the same amount

    I love Sausage McMuffins. Yes, I work for artisanal, organic food companies (and eat so well because of them). But, oh, Sausage McMuffins with a side of triangular hash browns! That is a divine meal. I’m never going to be a huge opera fan. I won’t spend hours dissecting a piece of art