After spending the last few months in soul-searching we’ve figured out a destination, but not the path to get there. One of the hardest parts to figure out is financing this crazy dream of ours. A willingness to live off grid in the middle of nowhere (or at least nowhere adjacent) makes getting a homestead more financially feasible. And building our own house will keep costs down as well – especially since we plan to use natural building methods and an energy efficient design. But we will still need jobs for the foreseeable future and we would prefer to have jobs that we can work from home. We also want to only work part-time. A tall order, I know.
I’ve been praying a lot through this whole process. Praying that God would help to guide us on this path and somehow make it all work. Well, the path may not be completely clear yet but some pieces are falling into place.
A few weeks ago I was approached by a professor I had worked with previously about working with her on the creation of an Introductory Psychology textbook and associated materials. This work would be part-time (it wouldn’t even require me to put Julie in daycare) and I could work from home in my spare time. If you factor out how much we were paying for daycare when I was a graduate student, the pay is even comparable with my grad school stipend – for a lot fewer hours and a lot less stress. The part that is so exciting is that this could be a foot in the door to exactly the kind of job I want. I’m being cautiously excited.