Give Me Back My Five Bucks

I was asked a few weeks ago to talk about my freelancing income: when I started to make good money from it, and if I’m still on track to earn $25,000 this year.  My freelancing business started in 2005, when I was still in college. I didn’t have many clients. In fact, I think I mostly did volunteer work in order to build up my portfolio. Which actually turned out to be a good move, because I was able to get full-time jobs a lot easier during the first few years out of college, since I had a decent portfolio … Continue reading →

So I’ve spent a couple days playing around with my new MBP. It’s awesome. Super fast and quiet as anything. I’ve already moved everything off my iMac and onto the MBP. It’s also been amazing having Adobe CS5 – I’ve been designing like mad. Oh, and I did end up buying a 1 TB external hard drive the other day. I’ve been needing one for years, and figured it would be much faster transferring all my data this way. It’s a total no-frills hard drive; you just plug it in and it’s ready to go. And it was under $90, so you … Continue reading →

I am very close to buying a new MacBook Pro. I’ve been doing months of research on what exactly I’ll need, and who to buy from for the best possible deal. I’m getting a great deal by buying from a reputable online seller (trust me, I researched up on this big time). Basically I’m getting student discount pricing, and saving an additional $400  for a fully loaded 15″ MBP. Was going to go with the 17″, but it’s just a little too big for easy portability. The total cost is $2,600. Go ahead, freak out a little. I’m freaking out … Continue reading →

I found the perfect dress to wear to my friend’s wedding in Maui. Except that it’s $70. I’ll have to think about it, because that’s a lot to spend and I’m already going all the way to Hawaii. I do have another dress that could work, but it’s really plain and not in the least bit dressy. It also has spaghetti straps, which I don’t like wearing to weddings (prefer wider straps for more coverage). That being said, this week I should bring in about $450 from selling my shoes on eBay and from a contract assignment. So I technically … Continue reading →

I don’t like posting how-to articles on this blog, because I don’t feel like I have the knowledge to tell anyone how to do anything relating to personal finance. That being said, over the past few months I’ve had a few people ask me how I’ve gone about setting up my graphic design business. I’m not going to tell you how to set one up, but I will definitely tell you how I got mine started. So to be honest (and I’m sure you’ve all noticed), I’ve got a pretty lazy business going, and I am very much reactive in … Continue reading →