You can blame the economy, but that is taking the easy way out

March 24 2009 Comments

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The economy is being blamed for just about everything bad these days. But it does not have to be all bad…

I hate to see everyone blaming everything bad that happens on the economy, sure things could be better right now, but that said, “the economy” should not be an excuse when things go wrong.

Here is my story and how my family and I have been affected and how we are rolling with it and using it as an excuse — an excuse to get what we want.

You see, my wife works in the mortgage industry, she is a closer for a title company and well, lets just say business is not all that great. Of course, it does not stop there, even I have taken a recent hit in my earning lately with blogging. We could just say that it is the fault of the economy and blame everything bad on that — right?

I say wrong, instead we are choosing to come out with what we want. Of course, things have gotten tight for us, or at least tighter than I would like, but that is OK.

Getting back to the story, my wife first had her hours cut, losing a day, sometimes two a week, which really takes its toll on the paycheck. Then she received what could have been even worse news, lose your job or take a transfer. Sounds easy right, just take the transfer. But that means instead of the long 45-60 minute drive (each way) she would now have a 60-90 minute (each way) drive. Sucks, but what can we do, she took the transfer and we are using it to our advantage and thinking on the positive side.

We have wanted to move from where we are for a while now, almost since we moved here, but we were stable and comfortable. Well a 90 minute drive does not make for comfortable (or happy) so we have decided to move. Yup, the bad job situation is going to give us what we have wanted for a while now.

Take that bad economy.

As for me, sure I lost some income, but I am already working on making that up in other ways. One key piece of advice that I would give to any freelancer, blogger or entrepreneur (or whatever you would like to be called) is that having multiple streams of income is better than one. Had I only had one source of income, things would be quite a bit worse right now.

Bottom line is that we have to make our own rules and our own destiny. We have to take care of ourselves and do what we need and want. After all, no one really cares that you have a long drive to work, they just feel that you should be happy to have a job. Screw that, take the bad and make it good. If nothing else think positive!