I Need a Maid!
My goal is to post to this blog almost every day, or at least every other day...lets just say I'm shooting for 5 times a week for arguments sake. Well, the past few days I haven't been able to make a post at all. Why? Am I slammed at work? Not really. Have I been working a lot on my business? Unfortunately, no. What I have been doing is all those little things that everyone else does every day but I put off.
Working 45 hours a week as an engineer and then coming home and working on my business doesn't leave for a heck of a lot of free time. I am fine with that. I am able to manage my friends, family, and hobbies. I think I do a good job of doing what's important to me despite the amount of time I spend working. But what really gets me are the stupid little things like cooking, cleaning, and shopping.
So, I have decided that I need a maid. I rent out a duplex and live by myself. The place is great but it requires normal maintenance. I think for most people it's no big deal to clean a few times a week and go grocery shopping. But for me, I want to spend 100% of my time outside of work growing SportsLizard.com and anything else feels like a waste.
What I need is a super maid - one that can cook, clean, do laundry, shop, answer phones, and organize my music. Yes, I need someone to organize my music. I have collected thousands of MP3's over the years and have neglected to add those stupid ID3 tags. I have finally given in to Apple and ordered an iPod (my old MP3 player just wasn't cutting it anymore) and now I have 10GB of unorganized music in iTunes!
I suppose I will spend a day this weekend organizing it and putting in the tags. Somehow, I feel like my time is worth more. It's amazing how my job and business don't stress me out but thinking about how unorganized my music drives me off the wall.
Interestingly enough, I just remembered reading about a girl in Entrepreneur magazine who started a (very successful) company loading people's CD collections and MP3's onto their iPods. At first I wasn't really impressed with the idea (sometimes I can't believe what people will pay other people to do) - now I could actually use her help!
Working 45 hours a week as an engineer and then coming home and working on my business doesn't leave for a heck of a lot of free time. I am fine with that. I am able to manage my friends, family, and hobbies. I think I do a good job of doing what's important to me despite the amount of time I spend working. But what really gets me are the stupid little things like cooking, cleaning, and shopping.
So, I have decided that I need a maid. I rent out a duplex and live by myself. The place is great but it requires normal maintenance. I think for most people it's no big deal to clean a few times a week and go grocery shopping. But for me, I want to spend 100% of my time outside of work growing SportsLizard.com and anything else feels like a waste.
What I need is a super maid - one that can cook, clean, do laundry, shop, answer phones, and organize my music. Yes, I need someone to organize my music. I have collected thousands of MP3's over the years and have neglected to add those stupid ID3 tags. I have finally given in to Apple and ordered an iPod (my old MP3 player just wasn't cutting it anymore) and now I have 10GB of unorganized music in iTunes!
I suppose I will spend a day this weekend organizing it and putting in the tags. Somehow, I feel like my time is worth more. It's amazing how my job and business don't stress me out but thinking about how unorganized my music drives me off the wall.
Interestingly enough, I just remembered reading about a girl in Entrepreneur magazine who started a (very successful) company loading people's CD collections and MP3's onto their iPods. At first I wasn't really impressed with the idea (sometimes I can't believe what people will pay other people to do) - now I could actually use her help!
posted by Adam McFarland at
12/13/2005 11:53:00 PM
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