Ziz said:

So, while I had all this free time being on unemployment, I started to develop a home business designing conversion parts for Star Trek model kits. I'm now just on the verge of being able to live off of it full time but not quite so I found a local minimum wage job to fill in the financial blanks (and because unemployment benefits ran out) until I get it fully up to speed. Hindsight being 20/20, I would have focused on the model business more from day one, not bothered with the MBC training and might be fully self supportive by now. Either way, I'm still developing the business so hopefully I'll be able to say I'm truly self-employed later this year.

I think you deserve to promote yourself, Ziz. I for one am interested in your business model model business! ;-)