Decisions, Decisions

Well, we closed on the house in WG. Bill and I walked away with $20,570. So now that we have that is done and have money in the bank (well a lot more money in the bank); we are at a cross roads. Bill has been told that Mettemeyer is going to sell their survey equipment. Depending on the asking price, we may buy it. We went for a walk today and started bouncing ideas off each other. He could contact Alan and Eric and Aaron and do staking for them. He could contact the small survey companies in town and offer to be a contract crew chief or a second survey crew when they needed one. Then he was like well if I need help who would I get and I said Kenny and he was like ohhhh Kenny would be good. Then we talked about turning the truck into a work truck and getting magnetic signs for it made saying Snappco.

So, the decision we now make is how far do we go with this. He use to make $3300 a month (net $2500). If he could net $1500 on this opperation, we would still be saving for retirement and matching our current expenses. Bill needs to commit to whatever he decides to do. Especially if he takes on this venture. I think the tax issues would be the hardest and we would have to have a tax professional help us out. I think a large part of this depends on if we get the equipment and if Bill finds a full time job in March. We'll just have to see, but he sure sounds excited about the prospect of working for himself rather than someone else, having to do it someone else's way. I think it could work. If he got his liscense it would really work. We'll have to see what happens but it is nice to look at the world and think we have all these options rather than think oh man we are sunk.