I received my first comment on this blog! This has cheered me up no end. It proves that I am not just writing in vain. This little “breakthrough” makes me want to get on and transform some of my unfinished ideas into working web projects. One at a time of course! This coming weekend, after my first week back in the office I’m going to get down to it.

It’s the first time in quite a while that I will have experienced a weekend in contrast to a working week as I have been used to a weekend being like every other weekday when I wasn’t working and I won’t lose heart so quickly when a new idea of mine doesn’t start paying me immediately because I have a salary again.

Yes the weekends are again precious, so I won’t waste them. I will make them work for me! In two or three weeks time I’ll be working a shift pattern, which consists of nights and some weekends, so the new weekend philosophy will be short lived, but I will have frequent days off in between shifts and I can just treat those days like work days, but from home……. or Starbucks!.

I have too many scraps of ideas of what to do next and then getting distracted by something else and forgetting any ideas that came to me. I have concluded that I am trying to become an expert in too many things all at once.

I am trying not to be too self critical because I have still not come up with any decent content that will be of interest to anyone reading or that will generate a little income. I am going to spend what time I can deciding on what type of content and how it will be presented before I start putting it up. The hardest lesson for me is to not start another project in the middle of this one!

Some inspiration please.

Well sometimes you have to change direction a little in order to be able to have any chance of progressing and this is the situation I find myself in now.

I have got myself a job, which will soon find me with far less financial concerns although hardly in spirit with leaving the office as it is a job working night-shift in a Telecoms company. Still it seems like it has room for me to develop new skills in emerging technology, which in a few years may mean I will be able to find employment in a far-off exotic location!

In the meantime I will have to put away as much money as possible and settle for a holiday around March or April 2007 to see Kan. This is the first time I feel I am actually taking care of a long term goal. It’s unusual for me to be thinking so far into the future!

Development on site content for leavetheoffice.com and a few new sites is now underway.

I am having a crisis… I have completely run out of money!

There is not much chance of me being able to escape for a while, so I am looking for a job to support myself while I work on building future, mobile-earnings ideas. This is a long term thing as I want to build up a very large balance in my savings account.

I am longing to be in Phuket with my girlfriend, but I have to accept that I am not equipped financially to be able to go there for a while.

I am trying to come up with ideas of how to create income on the move, which will not only work for me, but also inspire other people to try for themselves. Bear with me I will eventually be able to provide visitors with some useful and interesting information here at leavetheoffice.com once i have unscrambled my dis-organised thoughts and found some direction & structure to my intentions.

The background picture on this site is what provides the inspiration for my dreams of escape. I won’t describe where it is exactly, but it is in Thailand and there is a very special lady waiting there for me.

Just a few minutes a day looking at this and other pictures I took on my last trip keeps the dream alive, allowing me to talk it into existence. I suppose that’s a bit like Jamie Fox in “Collateral” who keeps the picture of a desert island in his taxi cab for “escaping” to when he gets five minutes.

I have recently returned from an extended trip to Thailand where I spent most of my time with the love of my life. Now I am back in England with the nights drawing in I am determined to go back and get that feeling of freedom and joy that I had whilst I was there.

I am determined to earn money online eventually, living in the country I love with the woman I love, travelling around when the fancy takes us.

It’s something that most of us see as an ideal, but not a likely reality. To be able to leave the office life behind. To not have that constant threat of a phonecall from “The Office”. To not have to be stuck after hours with no extra pay, just to please the boss. Maybe it was a fantasy to think of a life away from all of that a few years ago, but now with the world getting smaller thanks to technology, especially the internet I know I can be free.

I am really interested in hearing from others with the same passion as me as it always inspires new ideas in the quest to Leave The Office!