The shift change at work has happened, and the department I work in has now been reduced from 5 members to just 2, of which I’m one of them.

One of my colleagues has retired, rather than face signing on, and the other two have been laid off.

Finished. The end of a five year chapter whilst I’ve been there.

That now puts in a “proper” job for the first time since 1987, when I started working nights. I now work days, Monday to Friday, and for me, this is going to represent a massive life and culture change for me. I know, given time, that working days will be beneficial for me, as, as human beings, we are not designed to work nights.

This has been my first designated weekend off for ages. I’ve finished my membership site now, which went live about three hours ago as I write this, and I now only have to update the site on a weekly basis with new downloads for the members.

I’m sorting out my new schedule now as with only two days off in a row, then working 5, my time is really pushed. I am trying to devote one weekend day to the business only; as I still have to do “normal” things like mowing the lawn, household duties and so on, and I’m trying to re-arrange my life so that I work 5 days in the job, the business for one day, and leave the seventh day for the household responsibilities.

It’s hard going fitting everything in. Before I used to work 8 or 9 days/nights straight, then have 5 off. See the difference?

It is even more important now that my business income starts to become residual, repeating and still comes in without any hands on work from me for 6 days a week. That’s the idea behind the membership site. Tying this in with my eBay store and Amazon book store gives me 3 streams of passive income.

You can see my membership page here:

That’s got to be a good start to my 2010 debt free strategy, hasn’t it?