Off-grid, Cochise County, Arizona

Technical income from a dead zone.

I spent about ten years as a support engineer at Ring, from startup through the Amazon years. In 2026 I was laid off. I live off-grid on about five acres in southern Arizona, where I'm building a container home under my own owner-builder permit.

This site is the working record of how to make a technical living from land with no utility connection: the power and connectivity it takes to work remotely, the build itself, and the small businesses that don't care where you live.

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What this site covers

Three threads, one question: how do you earn a technical living from land with no utility connection and no employer nearby?

Power & connectivity for remote work

Solar, LiFePO4 batteries, parallel inverters, and a usable internet connection where there is no utility pole. The infrastructure under every other thing on this site.

Power & connectivity articles

Building off-grid

Two 40 ft high-cube containers on concrete pillars under a Cochise County owner-builder permit. Water hauled, septic installed, propane hot water, mini split cooling. Written as it happens.

The build

Income that doesn't care where you live

One-product digital stores, drone services, rural land data, software. Each one is live and linked; what is written about them is limited to what I can show.

Projects

Latest articles

Working notes, written to answer one question each.

All articles

Nothing published yet. The first articles cover the power system, the connectivity setup and the permit process for the build. Until then, see the build and projects.