My Affiliate Links

I needed a place to keep all my affiliate links so I could reference them. This list will grow as I add new ones. You’ll be able to see what companies I’ve set up with to get a few bucks for the link and get some ideas of your own.

Please send some comments on any I don’t have and include your affiliate link with it – as long as the links relate to this site. I’ll click on your link to check it out to see if I want to sign up with them.

Please Donate to Realizing {Me}

Running and maintaining this site is not free. If you’ve found something of value here, please consider donating a small amount. I am also planning on catching up with my family and friends when I get home from Iraq and will need a boatload of Guinness for the occasion.

I would also like it if you donated because you found something useful here.

If you donate, please leave a comment below what you found on my site that prompted you to donate. You don’t have to mention how much you’re donating if you don’t want to but feel free if you’d like. If you donate at least $25 and let us know how you’ve used something in this site, feel free to leave contact information in your comment for all to see.

However, if you’d like to donate more, I’ll make sure to mention how more grateful I am to you on my site

[Please click here to help buy some Guinness for me and the lads]

I want to thank Steve Pavlina for giving me the idea for this page.

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Financial Freedom Update – 9/08

 

 

 

This will be my first of many updates the current status of my search for financial freedom, which is one of the goals I have to allow me to do the things I want to do in life. These updates will probably change over time but they’ll be useful for me to keep on track and track my progress. Let’s begin…

I need a new job

If you’ve been reading this blog at all, you probably know that I’m a civilian contractor for a big defense contractor and I’m in the Army Reserves. I love my Army job but it doesn’t pay enough to give me the expendable income that I want to do some of the things I want to do in life. I can’t stand this civilian job. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the worst job in the world but when you add it all up, I don’t want to do this for any length of time. I need to look at what I’m doing now so I know how long I want to keep doing it and then take a look at what I can come up with to do next based on what’s available and what skills I have.

Let’s look at the job I have currently so I can see what’s good and bad about it: