By Adam Pash, 2:00 PM on Thu Apr 9 2009,

Over at weblog Freelance Switch, our very own Gina Trapani discusses crafting a personal business model—that is, an ideal vision of what you want to get from the work you do.

Gina’s post comes from the perspective of someone who’s made a move to a mostly freelance career after years at the helm of Lifehacker, but the basic idea behind the personal business model, as she describes it, applies to anyone, and it’s about finding satisfaction in the work you’re doing.

Traditionally a business model is a company’s plan to generate revenue. While I do plan to make money as a freelancer, my ultimate goal is to generate satisfaction. (While money is a part of that, so is learning, service, and creativity, so we’ll just use the umbrella term “satisfaction.”)

Gina’s ideal path to work satisfaction looks something like the pie chart in the screenshot, amounting to equal parts learning, love, and money with a dash of the necessary admin work (head over to Freelance Switch for more details), but it got us wondering: What’s your personal business model look like? We talk a lot about getting things done at Lifehacker, but what aspects of your work actually make it worthwhile—and what would make it better? Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments.
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Suicide Girls re-enact Fight Club

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think every thing you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

Tyler Durden: Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Tyler Durden: In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

Thanks to Marc Brown for his Song of the Day.