Sunshine Blogger Award

Thanks to Rich over at Redeemed Finance for the nomination! See his post here.

Here are the Sunshine Blogger Award rules:

• Thank the person who nominated you
• Answer the questions from the person who nominated you
• Nominate a few other bloggers
• Write the same amount of questions for the bloggers you nominated
• Notify the bloggers on their blog

The questions Rich posed to me were:

1. What did you want to be when you were little?

• I feel like I struggled with this as a child. I never had that "calling" or desire to be anything in particular. I guess when I was in about 6th grade, my cousin Fred gave me an Atari 130XE Computer with a million games. It blew my mind.  Previously I had dabbled with the Commodore 64 but never really got into it. I continued to pursue the computer field as I got into building my own PCs and reading up on the latest hardware. That is when I decided I wanted to be an Engineer when I grew up. 

 2. Do you have a hobby that generates income (besides blog)?

• My friend and I wrote a game for iOS called Metal Sky. It is something we did for fun and actually generates a little bit of cash flow each month, even though we haven't updated it for some time now. I also enjoy portrait photography but I don't charge for that. My favorite combo is my Canon 6D and Canon 50mm 1.4. I thought of turning photography into a side business, but its too competitive and time consuming.

3. Name something that annoys you about the economy.

• Without getting too political, what annoys me most about the economy is the government intervention in it. There are many good things the government does, but I don't believe in bail outs or spending money we don't have (we being the great USA).

4. Do you plan on working in your 50’s? 60’s? 70’s?

• Of course not! I am 35 right now, but I would love to retire from corporate America in 5 years, at age 40. I have several side ventures that I would like to pursue but I need some passive income to help support those.

 
5. What is your #1 dream car (that you may actually buy)?

• I am not really a car guy. Growing up, it was the Mitsubishi 3000GT. Something about that car just really interested me. These days, I am more family oriented, and I think my dream car/vehicle is a motorhome of some sort that I could travel around the country with my family in. Exciting, right!!

Who do I nominate? How about (Sorry if you have already done this recently, but hey it is an honor to be nominated multiple times right??):

1. Div4Son
2. Dividend Hawk
3. A Frugal Family's Journey

I follow these 3 blogs very closely as the information they provide is outstanding!

Here are my questions to the above 3 bloggers:

1. What have you read recently that wasn't blog related that caught your attention?
2. What is your favorite part about blogging?
3. What is your least favorite part about blogging?
4. What is something unique that you own or some unique skill that you have?

Thanks for reading!