Background:- I am a fairly low level high street lawyer that makes just enough to support my wife and child. My wife is in remission from cancer but now chronically ill, and my daughter is only just started school but probably has adhd/autism (diagnosis ongoing).
We have no family or friends we can rely on, and I can barely hold down my job caring for them and trying to work all the hours I need to. There are too many days I need emergency time off, sometimes the whole day, sometimes a few hours now and again. I am dead on my feet and can’t keep going like this forever.
My idea:- There is no point getting another better paying job just to be an unreliable employee there too, and starting my own business would be even more work. I need to find a way working from home for myself controlling my own hours between work and family care.
I’ve been pretty inspired by the case studies I have read here, and I have lots of ideas for legal content that I can write about that will be valuable for people to read.
I’ve considered a website with a mix of one on one services and content, but realistically being tied to meetings and deadlines is what I’m trying to get away from. I need to be able to work when I can, and it not be a problem if I can’t work for a few hours.
So I’ve thought about a legal website purely focused on valuable content that can either be based on Wordpress, or a membership/newsletter style that I can base on ghost that has all that stuff built in.
I’m well aware that success at this could take anywhere from 3 years to never, but if I don’t “just start” then it never happens anyway. So a plan to try to earn enough to quit work and do this for a living 3 years from now is better than no plan at all.
The advice I’m looking for is, should I go all in on a Wordpress website for this, or is ghost with membership fee monetisation an equally valuable strategy in 2024?
Thank you for reading!
