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You know, it’s one thing to maintain a forty hour a week job to begin with, and it’s certainly another thing to do freelance writing work as a full time job, but have you ever wondered what it’s like to do both?

The Life of a Workaholic - Must…Take….A Break…

This all started when I got involved with eBay in order to earn some extra cash. In my usual all-or-nothing approach, I ended up as an eBay PowerSeller in less than a year. I wrote about that a bit in one of this month’s articles at MakeUseOf. There’s plenty of money to be made on eBay, the only problem is that 75 percent of it involves doing work outside the home. You can forget about having a life on “shipping day,” a tortuous day where you spend 4 or 5 hours rapidly packing up oddly shaped items in cardboard and bubble wrap. The next day you arrive at the post office carrying a mountain of packages (as other customers eye you up and down with disgust for taking so much time), and then you pray to the United States Postal Service gods to *please* not break anything, because dealing with USPS insurance claims is like expecting your health insurance premiums to go down next year…it ain’t gonna happen.

The Life of a Workaholic - Must…Take….A Break…

This month, I decided to share a bit of the madness. Here are a few of the projects that I somehow managed to complete this month.

• 10 June articles on MakeUseOf (so far).
• 3 Articles on the RealityUncovered Paranormal/Ufology blog.
• Almost 15 articles at LoveToKnow on the web-design, online, sci-fi, and paranormal channels.

And something I’m very proud and happy to report, a few of the best interviews I’ve had the honor of doing so far.  Jim Harold of the Paranormal Podcast, an interview with popular science fiction novelist Kevin J. Anderson, and finally a very cool chat with Scott Swedorski - the VP of Product Development over at CoffeeCup (the creators of the famous free web design software).

All in all, it’s been a fun month. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade in my day job as an Engineer - but I gotta tell you, this writing thing is a total blast.