A new direction

Friday, Tim and I had a long talk about what I should do career-wise. Keep freelancing? Get another job? I like some aspects of working from home, but not the uncertainty of when projects end. And sometimes, I really don't feel motivated working at home (other days, I work until midnight lol).

But then we went to talk to my bank about home stuff. What would we need to put down, what kind of mortgage could we consider, would we be able to get a mortgage even though our credit isn't perfect, that kind of stuff.

And talking to the bank helped in several ways. One, it looks like we could get a mortgage, even though we don't have perfect credit. But, and this is more important, until I am self-employed for two years, my income doesn't really count. We can't buy a home on just Tim's income, so that means I have to go back to a "regular" job.

There are lots of good things about this. I don't look at the freelancing as a mistake or failure, but instead a good experiment. It really helped me to clear my head, it gave us extra money to put toward the house, and it got my name out there to some people for other work that I might be able to pick up after I get a regular job again.

And the good thing is that as long as I can show regular income from when I left to when I get a new job, it looks like I've had steady income.

So another new adventure will begin!