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Rethinking

Still in Cincinnati. I definitely cleared up a lot of things on the to do list, from canceling cable internet to driving the family SUV to get it fixed to dealing with the college loan people to tracking down all the tax-related paperwork my parents and I need. I really wanted to see if I could get this retainer check done and over with so I can drive back to Illinois. It might be I really am going to be here until Wednesday.

I wasn’t able to get a whole lot of work done: Still feels like I’m on a vacation. Rather than working, I’ve been catching up on a few TV shows here and there (Battlestar Galactica, I’m so behind) and reading quite a bit of the Bible. Right, that and continuing to think where my life will take me.

To tell you the truth, I’m excited. I don’t know what I’ll be doing after 5 months. I don’t think I can stress this enough: I’ve never had a time in my life that I wasn’t 110% sure what the next step was to be. I guess it comes with the territory of actually being able to support oneself, but it also comes with being kinda self-employed.

I will be having an interview with the good MBA people at UIUC on the 19th of February. More or less a information session… and that’s what I’m looking for, more information. As soon as I get back on campus, I’ll be yoinking some GMAT books from the great Library we have. Looks like I have to write four essays, two pages max per question, for the application. Yikes. Too bad I like to write.

Personal Finance is too fun. Learning more about retirement planning… so much fun. I know for a fact I’ll be maxing out my Roth IRA very soon. Huzzah for that. If only I had some kind of system that could help me transfer some of what I’ve learned to the world…

Right. Blogs.

Still thinking over what I want to do with this blog.

“Christian Coding Korean” was what I wanted to go with. But I want to add even more to it… I’m stretching my subject areas too far as it is. Not only am I going to be writing for people, but I’m actually going to be using the blog to retain information; to help me remember what I’ve researched and learned through my browsing the Interweb.

But I’m interested in so much… Does Josh Kim dot Org just stay that way? A site just devoted to whatever the heck I’m interested in at that moment in time? But that means… I’m going to be writing endlessly…

I mean, I can sit here and write “personal” posts continuously, with a Bible open before me, going through verse by verse, just being convicted through every verse. But that’s not very productive, in the sense that I’m not meant to be doing that: It’s not like I’ve been called to some sort of a blog ministry.

I guess the problem is I’m not the best at anything. I’m just okay with a lot of things. But I like being okay at a lot of things… If there was something I learned in college (other than the subject matter), it was that one of the most important things in life is not being the best at something, but to create something to be best at. For some reason, that entrepreneurial spirit was sown.

But what to reap? What am I using as nutrients. Hopefully, massive amounts of learning and research on my own. But it can’t be my own. I must ask for help… from others and from God. Asking help from God is easy (okay, sometimes… after humility takes place). Dealing with people, though… that’s another story.

Where the heck am I? I feel like I just wrote like 2 pages and got nowhere.

Right, back to the point. Rethinking.

If I want to use the blog as a passive income generator, I need to make sure that it can be used that way. I guess I need to crank out more worthwhile posts in terms of the subject area I choose, whatever they may be.

Oh man, that’s going to require some category reorganization. Retagging, also. And I’m still thinking about ripping the RSS feeds into categories that make more sense.

Things could be easier if I just started to create more domain names, and just created content based on each… hmm…

YES! Site Niche Found!

I’ve been talking to people about how there needs to be more nerdy Christians.

I’m now proud to say I’ve made up my mind about JoshKim.org and the direction I want to take with it.

It will now be a blog focused on the life of a Christan computer nerd, with interests ranging from technological issues to personal finance to business concepts to user interface design to Asian cultures, with a sprinkling of really bad humor and horrible sarcasm from time to time.

That’s it! That should be plastered on the index.php of this site.

See… this is why it was so hard to redesign this site… If you don’t know what the book is actually going to be about, how in the world do you design the cover? What the freak can you do with shapes, colors, and lines?

Slowly, I’ve been making changes to the site. I’ve made RSS feeds available through feedburner, I’ve made sure that technorati tags are working… I might start integrating some other Web 2.0 services (meebo me? mybloglog? what what what?)…

Also… what good is a blog without content. I’ve been trying to change my writing style into a more “you”-oriented style. I think, during the days of JKmain.com, I thought I was “selling out” if I wasn’t writing purely for myself, and just letting the readers in on the fun. Silly JK… it’s been years since that happened…

I’ve realized that I want… no… need to make my mark in the community. What community, you ask? Well… the blogosphere is quite large. Not only is there are large number of different groups of people, there are quite the overlap in these groups. It’s amazing to even think about it.

I’m not going to just go ahead and throw away my personal entries all together… I’m just going to start structuring them a little bit more into ways that people can… I don’t know, read and find out things about me.

So that’s my conviction. Now… to find the time to make the cosmetic changes…