A "Proper" Job - part 2

23 November 2009

Welcome back. I'll write this blog based on my experiences since the last post and addressing some of the comments that have been made.

The job interview lasted around 45 minutes, not a month, I'm sure you'll be happy to know. I found out a week later that I was not suitable for the role because I had too much experience - go figure!

Since we last spoke, I have been doing work although not of the full-time variety. What I have been doing will keep my bills being paid and will help me get a solution in place - a business of my own that is being designed with my needs in mind that will hopefully keep a passive income coming in with minimum time investment from me beyond the initial set-up. I concluded that any work that isn't on my own terms is not a long term solution. I'd need to be there to make money to live on and to put aside to begin the football side of this again and the moment I stopped being there, I'd be living off savings that would probably not be enough to last me the period of time the modelling would take. There is the option of working and doing this at the same time. A lot of top athletes do this. They tend to be in sports that are more purely fitness-based (running, cycling, etc) and the ones that aren't already have the skills base that they require to compete and only need the time to keep their skills sharp. I was never in this position and with my experience through TBA so far, I don't believe it would work.

I will continue to do part-time promotions work (JGW, you continue to save my ass!) to keep me afloat in the meantime and am exploring avenues of work that I have stumbled across recently where if I hit lucky at some point, I could make in a few days enough money to restart this and keep it going the course. I'm not applying for full-time posts any longer but if a full-time job comes up in this period I will consider taking it to get the business up and running more quickly.

I have some understanding with those of you who are disappointed by the blog recently. You signed up to hear about something you haven't heard about for a while. This is part of my reasoning for writing less regularly now. The way I see it, you have a few options; you can stop reading and miss out on what is to come or you can persevere for a while longer and pick up on your topic of interest just as soon as I do.

If you choose to continue to read or not and support the idea of TBA, I am grateful to you. It is always nice to know that I have people in my corner. If you don't, thanks for coming this far with us. I say this far because there is still a long way to go yet. I don't know where any of you got the idea that I'm giving up. I am continuing. This is just taking longer than I had hoped it would but then again, so did getting TBA started. It took around 18 months from conception to beginning and the majority of that time was spent trying to pull money in to fully fund the project. I started on the suggestion from a dear friend that I begin on a shoestring and everything else we needed financially would come to us as the reputation of the project grew. I have persevered before and I am choosing to now.

Keep tuned in the next few days. I have some videos coming your way soon and tomorrow TBA is one year old!