Last Wednesday I received my offer letter, and began working on Thursday. My routine isn't all that different than it's recently been–wake up, take coffee on the patio and work on various projects until evening. Only now those projects are for someone else, and I'm getting paid for them.

I think this will be a great fit for me. It's part-time, leaving me ample time and energy for other projects and business ideas. Hours are flexible as well. Also, I'm working on things about which I'm passionate, and may even manage to swing funding for Spiel development. Unfortunately, there's nothing to which I'm ready to link just yet, but creating that is on the agenda for early next week.

My only concern is that I really need a better life outside of work. I acknowledge that this arrangement is quite sweet and that I'm lucky to have it, but having more money is sort of useless if you don't have an active life on which to spend it. Certainly there's something to be said for financial responsibility and saving, but beyond a certain threshold, such measures stop being responsible and start being score-keeping. And, well, just as I never could get into games like Space Invaders, whose goal was simply to earn more and more points in the face of increasing challenges, the game of have the biggest bank balance isn't much more exciting, though admittedly the power-ups and unlockable items are a bit cooler.