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RE: The Fall Of A Business—Why My Dislike Of All Government Is Personal
howdy again @glenalbrethsen! wow that had to be a hard blow to absorb. Did you stay in touch with any of the newspaper co-workers and know where they went to work next?
This was a situation where you did everything right and everything you could do and it still didn't work out so don't beat yourself up about it, I'm sure you aren't.
don't we have some missing years here? newspaper closed in 2012 so what did you do from then until Steemit?
Well for all of 2013 through mid-2014 I drew unemployment while looking for work initially in the newspaper field, but then when I didn't get hired, I went looking for other things. Nothing really worked out. So, when the unemployment ran out, we continued to live off our savings, too, and I kept looking for something—either something to do on my own or to work for someone else.
In the meantime, I also started writing the companion novel to the first two I've already published, plus the other one that I just finished posting here. Then around September/October or so of 2014, I found out about LDS Business College and went about applying for it. I got accepted at the same time as my wife applied at the hospital. She started work mid-December of 2014 and I went off to school from January 2015 to April of 2016, with three term breaks and long weekends in between.
From April 2016 until now I've been managing an LDS related Facebook page and website, while keeping an eye out for paying work in social media marketing. Towards the end of summer last year I started ramping up development on one of the comic book series I have floating in my head and opened up a Patreon page. That went nowhere, so I asked my friend about Steemit and then got going on signing up between Christmas and New Year.
howdy today Glen! wow so you kept super busy all this time, and I know it can be even more stressful trying to find work as opposed to working full time. the toughest job is working fulltime to FIND a full time job.
I had forgotten about your college thing with LDS.
what's Patreon?
Patreon is a site for creatives to show their work. They can post whatever they want to share with the general public, and set up tiers for people to pay a certain amount monthly to gain access to more things. A lot of the folks there already have something built up that they're either underpaid for or giving away for free. For example, the majority of folks doing cartoons on Patreon have had a webcomic for three or four years (free to view) and they're trying to generate more income than what a google ad or an affiliate link on their site might bring in.
So, they set up the tier payments and offer behind the scenes looks at how they go about creating their comics, or they might even offer totally unrelated things, however they feel they can entice people to pay from $1 on up for what they have to offer.