My income has been stable over the last month, which is always nice to know when you're in a bit of a precarious income situation, with 95% of your income being earned purely online.
Not only has my income been stable, there hasn't been too much change from last month in terms of the sources of income, so that's a second thing to be happy about!
And most importantly my income is about 130% of what I actually need to survive, so that's a nice chunk I've been able to put into my savings.
I've added a new category into this months recording - income from 'other social media' and games - which means Splinterlands/ blurt and PublishOX for now.
October Income Breakdown...
- ReviseSociology resource sales remains the largest category by far, with around 50% of my income coming from here - the blog stats are holding up nicely, and I'm happy enough with October's sales. What I'm not so happy about is no more teacher resource subscriptions! I could do with a few more of these.
- Revise Chatbot - it's my evil link to a 'paid essay service' - a little down on last month, but it's still doing it's bit.
- Marking - I don't enjoy marking essays, but this is double what it was last month, it's also a source of income I earn that's not dependent on Google search returns and selling resources, which is nice for income-security.
- Revise ads - no change really, a bit crap, but every little helps.
- Other social media - at 2% of my income I thought this was worth putting in - posting on Blurt and around £20 a month playing Splinterlands, it's worth a few minutes of my time every day for sure!
- Hive, which includes LEO - 21.5% of my income, that is substantial, and pretty good for me doing something I enjoy everyday.
Qualifications
This doesn't include any interest or dividend gains from investments, all of that just gets ploughed right back in.
Oh, and I haven't counted my house income from rent, maybe I should have put that in there too?!? That's around 20% of my total income after fees, which would push everything down slightly. I think, need to check actually! Slight oversight not including it!
Also with Hive, I don't draw down on that, that's really the part of my income that I 'reinvest' - the rest covers my day to days! Works out pretty nicely!
A few reflections
I'm quite happy with the balance of this - I don't have to work that hard to earn this money, about 20 hours a week.
In an ideal world the price of Hive and LEO would increase 5 times, then I can just live off those!
But for now I'll take stable income, especially since I'll shortly be buying land (although you've probably gathered I'm in NO rush to do this!) and reducing my income needs even further!