I have some light piano songs playing in my earphones as I start my workday.
This is a far cry from climbing on ladders in the boiling sunlight painting houses like I was doing when I ran my own painting company.
I had it going well, working about 20 hours a week & making great money, maybe $1500 a week. But I grew tired of the racket & wanted a change, which is when the 2008 crisis hit & that was my cue to get out of it for good. I packed up my vehicle & moved to NYC, heating up my comedy career by performing each night in climate controlled clubs in the city. That somehow led me here, where I live overseas now & am singing & playing drums in a band. I work from my climate controlled office now & don’t have to worry about being a local company on the top of a tall ladder anymore. My new job ends tomorrow though so I will be job hunting for the next few afternoons or so & hopefully find a part time gig online. There are lots of HVAC technology gigs online if you are willing to write about heating & cooling systems, which is something that I have been doing the past few years. I’m just looking for $500 a month now & it should be simple to grab something making that amount. My air conditioner bills during the summer time are pretty low thanks to my high SEER rated HVAC system, so I can run the thing while I work from household this summer.