1st post, long-winded intro, flame away.
I'm a 28-yo dude from the the South, but I've been in NYC for about 6 years now. After being in the working world for about 6 yrs, I decided to take a break and go back to school for an MBA while I have a sugar mama lawyer to support me. Now I'm entering my last semester and facing the prospect of going back to cubicle world. While I've got a few exciting opportunities percolating for full-time work, I'm keen on building up supplementary income (those student loans are a real bitch!) and exploring self-employment possibilities. So here I am.
I've been in the online world for ages, since running a BBS in the FIDO/VirtualNet days. I worked in IT consulting, telecom, ISP sysadmin then got out of hands-on tech for a while. I also dipped my toes into political campaigning and did a good stint in Big-4 management consulting.
Skills-wise, I consider myself a strong writer and can spit out good content once I get myself going. My tech skills are more infrastructure/sysadmin related -- Unix/Linux, Perl, SQL, networking. It's been years but PHP won't be too foreign to me. I have no website development or design background *at all* which will be a stumbling block.
My goals are to whittle down our student loans in short order and build up enough supplemental income over the next 2 yrs so that my wife can either go part-time or stop working the billable hours grind altogether.
Graduation is in May and I go back to the working world in July. Time and money aren't an issue for now, so I have about 6 months to lay a good foundation. Time to get crackin', and it looks like this is as good a place as any to get my bearings.