Tammie Hansberger

My first post and I already have so much to say but I’m gonna TRY to keep this short. But I can already see that I’m going to LOVE blogging. Gosh I hope you will too, I can get a little ‘talky’.

I hope you’ll join into the conversation. I’m pretty much all over the place mentally; my husband calls it ’stream of consciousness’. I’ll try to be focused too, I guess!

My name is Tammie Hansberger. I am 38 years old and on terminal ‘traditional career’ burnout. It started when I realized that my career at the time (I’ve had a few since then) was giving back so much less than I was putting in. I’m sure you’ve been there, or are there now…tons of hours, and not a lot to show for it?

Fast-forward to now. I’m ecstatically married to a wonderful man, and we have a beautiful son. We both work, our son is in daycare. I’ve got weekends off, my husband doesn’t. Like many other American families,  we’re trying to make a good living and provide a happy life for ourselves and our son…and figure out how to plan for the future.

But we don’t get much time together. Time together as a family is our favorite thing.

We are fortunate and are able to pay our bills.  But there’s only enough to cover the bills and not much else. We worry about making it to the next paycheck, and feel guilty about eating out when we do.

I have a good job for a good company and work with very nice people, but my heart’s not in it.  Not when someone else gets to be with my son all day and teach him what I should be teaching him, and watch in wonder when he says his ABC’s all the way through, all by himself (he’s 20 months…these are big things!)

I’m not down on daycare. I just want to be the one who’s there with him, that’s all.

So I’ve been looking for the answer. Trying to figure out how in the world I’m going to hold up my end of the financial bargain and be home with my boy. I’ve been considering everything: learning how to live on a tighter budget, home daycare, changing careers again…but to WHAT? I don’t have a lot of time here, this kid’s growing like a weed and I’m not getting any younger! We want to have another child before I’m in a walker.

I digress, but I have a feeling you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Through my awesome cousin, I got into selling on eBay and I love it. It is so much fun, and I never knew being an entrepreneur could be so…empowering! But it takes time to build and I don’t know if it can justify me staying home.

I sell all kinds of different things on eBay, and I love books, so I was on a Yahoo Group where I met Julia Schultz of Book Jewels. Through her I found out about Jim Cockrum. And when I started reading his Silent Sales Machine, the lightbulb came on…and it was BRIGHT.

Here I was trying to figure out the ONE thing that could create a better money picture for me, after all it’s what we’ve all done all our lives isn’t it? We’re taught to pick the one school, that will train us for the one career that we’ll work to bring home our one paycheck.

Jim helped me figure out that  relying on ONE game plan is not only risky but it doesn’t take average people like me very far. He introduced me to the concept of multiple streams of income. And this is hugely possible through the internet. The possibilities are only limited by our way of thinking.

If the concept is not new to you I apologize for being remedial, but it still blows me away!

And now I find myself here, writing my first blog post, trying really hard not to write an entire book. There’s so much to talk about and we will!  I never thought I’d be here, I’ll tell you that.

Thanks for reading my first post and we’ll talk again soon!