Anybody catch which wordpress themes he uses for $75/ea?

Jack, this episode was fantastic!

Austin’s journey to economic freedom is a great story and one that I hope my family will be able to make. When our third son was born 2 years ago my wife decided it was time to stay home. She left her low-paying job and decided to babysit a neighbor kid to make some grocery money. I started learning PHP and have been able to make some side money by working from home a few hours a week. I had to laugh when you and Austin talked about the futility of learning PHP to design websites when it is so much easier to use an existing WordPress template. How true that is!

Now I have doubled the income I’m getting from my programming on the side and this past year we decided to start home-schooling our 2 older boys who previously were in private school. My wife has been making money selling homemeade cookies and is also cleaning houses 2 times a week.

I have yet to figure a way to take the leap to leave my good paying corporate job but I feel it will happen in the next couple years. I didn’t realize that people still paid to have WordPress sites built so that is an avenue I am definitely going to explore.

Thanks so much for all you do and Austin was a phenomenal guest.

Wow.

I don’t listen very often to this show anymore (or most podcasts on my “A list,” so don’t take offense, you are still on the “A list”).

I randomly picked out this show because of the title and what I’ve been up to lately — and I’m like 20 minutes in and had to comment about how well I can relate to what you guys are saying.

I work as a user experience designer, art director, and developer for web applications, software, web sites, etc., and also handle marketing tasks.

I’m about 40 years old (stopped counting there) — and my biggest complaint about my career is how companies have shifted into producing low quality garbage at speed and low cost vs. quality anymore.

I always have to use the old line of “You can have good, fast, and cheap — BUT, you only get to pick TWO”

Used to be, in my career and training that GOOD was the most important quality people looked for in my work. They were willing to accept it would take awhile if they wanted it done cheap (ie. by myself) — or it would cost 2-3 times more if they wanted it GOOD and FAST.

NOW companies have COMPLETELY shifted away from the GOOD part of the equation and everyone out there wants everything done fast and cheap. Nobody cares about the quality of workmanship anymore — and I have been a part of several projects that just blew up and went into meltdown mode because eventually a house of cards will fall down due to a gust of wind.

People my age doing what we do were told when we were 20 that we didn’t have enough experience. When we had 10 years of experience, all of a sudden we were all told that we’re too old and the young generation owns this game now.

They are driving the train right off the tracks.

I have been running around in circles for about 2 years trying to figure out my next move, and almost started freelancing again doing the same work I am doing now. However — the idea of the “digital homestead” has taken hold and now I am focusing on much smaller scale efforts that I can do completely by myself — and set up alternative income streams for when the eventuality hits that I am not going to be able to do the work I am currently living on.

Considering I was being told I am too old 10 years ago — I’m more motivated now to see what I can do along those lines for the next 10 years.

I realized it was time to go back to being an artist again vs. doing client work. I am in the process of hanging up that hat of being told what to do — and going to focus on trying to take beautiful photos.

http://www.adamkennethcampbell.com

This is the first step in a series of steps I have planned out loosely — to start opening up additional income streams and something I can do when I retire from taking orders and arguing with people all day!

Great show — time to go finish this episode!