January? In this economy?
I don’t have a lot of new year’s rituals, but the one I have done the best job at sticking with over the past several years is that every January, I look back over the past twelve months and run down my finances for the no-doubt millions of you who are interested in the vagaries of one random dude on the Internet’s career.
So here I am again, but this time with a big milestone: hard as it is to believe, this past fall marked ten years of being out on my own, which is several years longer than I’ve held any other job in my entire life. But it also means, hurray, a full decade of data about income and my business. As always, I’m indebted to folks like Jim C. Hines who have been sharing their own financial information for many more years than I have.
Without further ado, let’s dive in.