The Entrepreneur Life

I’ve entered a new stage in my life. One where I work so hard I want to cry. One where I am pur­su­ing dreams and I spend every wak­ing moment try­ing to make more money. I mean seri­ously, that’s what I am doing these days — I’m try­ing to get rich, or die trying.

So let’s review last week for me!

Sun­day: 3pm — 10pm Record new episode of Man­a­Na­tion, my Magic Pod­cast.

Mon­day: Woke up at 6am, set lap­top to do next com­pres­sion of the Man­a­Na­tion episode for upload. Got up at 7:30 for the day. I usu­ally head out to Data­banq at 8am. I’ve begun mak­ing it a habit to use my lunch break for Man­a­Na­tion work. Mon­day is for upload­ing the episode and I used it to han­dle the order­ing of some Man­a­Na­tion t-shirts. Mon­day night was going to be a pod­cast with WhatThe­Cast but I decided to call in for it and spend time with K.

Tues­day: Data­banq 9am-6pm then I went home and did more Man­a­Na­tion work. Sat­ur­day was a big event for us as it was our first real chance to meet the local Magic com­mu­nity, so I had lots to do.

Wednes­day: Data­bang 9am-4pm. I left early because I had a doctor’s appoint­ment. After the doctor’s appoint­ment I went to be with K and work more on Man­a­Na­tion. I’ve been tweak­ing a Google Ad-Words cam­paign try­ing to draw more traf­fic and right now I’m aver­ag­ing about 10 clicks a day, or 0.05% of times the ad is shown (which is near­ing the 200,000 mark.)

Thurs­day: I had some stuff come up in the morn­ing so I went in late to Data­banq worked a full day there and then I went to Darren’s to edit the video, but we had some com­puter prob­lems and the night ended up being largely unpro­duc­tive. We got a lit­tle bit done, but largely I left there around 11pm with­out hav­ing accom­plished 3 hours worth of work.

Fri­day: Data­banq 9am-6pm. We’re falling into a good sys­tem at work but with a site about to go out the door it was a bit more stress­ful than usual. Like any good story, the heroes pre­vailed, the site went up, and life was good. Dur­ing the day I had to run to a screen printer and pick up the t-shirts I had ordered on Mon­day. I also ran a few other errands. After work I went and met dad, Jes­sica and dad’s cur­rent girl­friend for his birth­day din­ner. Jes­sica and I took them out to din­ner at Chili’s. It was a lot of fun and we gave our gifts to dad since he’s going to be busy and trav­el­ing next week. I headed home and col­lected my stuff for Sat­ur­day, falling into bed around 1am, only to get up again at 6am.

Sat­ur­day: The alarm went off at 6am, I hopped up and show­ered, shaved and plucked my eye­brows. Well, not really, I used a trim­mer. I loaded up the car and headed out to get to the hotel where the Magic tour­na­ment was at around 8am. I missed one of my turns and spent 10 min­utes cor­rect­ing it due to the way the roads worked. The event was a huge suc­cess and we got a lot of inter­est from the play­ers. I headed out around 7pm and went to hang with K. We went out to din­ner and when we got back we caught on some of the shows on the DVR.

Sun­day: Today I got up around 8am and did work on the Man­a­Na­tion site, I wrote some emails, but largely I worked on a web­site I’m doing for the brother of my boss. Around 11:30 K and I went out to lunch, I nearly got swin­dled by Cir­cuit City, and I headed out to meet with my video guy and edit the lat­est episode of Man­a­Na­tion. At 4pm we met my co-host for the show, Lee, and recorded the next episode. We had planned to do two episodes today but we just weren’t pre­pared for the sec­ond one and so we decided to push it back. So now we’ve been spend­ing the past 5 hours fin­ish­ing up the Man­a­Na­tion episode I’ll be upload­ing tomorrow.

Life is busy… but this is the way I like it. If I wasn’t busy, I’d be get­ting into trou­ble or wast­ing my time. This pod­cast has offi­cially made me an entre­pre­neur and I’m liv­ing the “stan­dard” entre­pre­neur life, that is that I’m work­ing hard and lov­ing it. I’m basi­cally work­ing two full time jobs, but I love both of them.

That being said, I crash out hard every night and I dream of swim­ming in money. Like any good entrepreneur.