Thank God its a jobless day! ^_^

This week is a very unproductive week for me. I wasn't able to work properly because of toothache and backache. I've been struggling for so many months now because of my cracked tooth and since I am pregnant, I am not allowed to have it extracted, not until after I give birth. I have to endure this for three months for the sake of my baby.

The backache was the result or my encoding job in Odesk. I worked for about five hours encoding PDF file to Microsoft excel. The job was easy but I guess my body can't handle the pressure at that time as I have to meet the deadline assigned by the employer. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish the five files handed over to me in one day. After two days, I was writing my sort of resignation letter to the employer that I can't work for the task on full time and she understood and ended the contract. I was glad that she ended it and gave me a 5-star rating after my comment for her.

I still don't have any feedback from my other employer, I want to finish that contract too since it is taking too long. It has been two weeks now for just $4 for the whole contract. My hourly rate job was also stopped last night and might resume by Monday, so I guess this weekend is also unproductive. I have a few job applications though and I can still apply for more if I'm in the mood to work.

My back still aches and I can't sit or stand for long now. Lying would be my best position so that I won't feel the pain. Streaming online also helps to kill the boredom. I still thank God for giving me an opportunity like this because I can rest and hopefully next week, will be a very productive week for me to earn more money.

First post for 2012

After several months of hiatus and hibernating on my so called Igloo because of my pregnancy, I am finally writing another entry again for this blog of mine. Just want to share another blessing that happened to me this week because I was hired as a part-timer online doing a data entry job which I am capable of, well most of the people I think. I missed working or should I say "earning" using my own abilities. Although its not a big project but its a big break for me after working hard on writing articles (which I am bad at) and never gotten paid after they'd approved of my work.

During those months until before last week, I was considering reselling again just to earn. I even want to destash our closet and find those hand-me-downs from my sister in law which I wasn't able to use and sell them at a garage sale online hehe. But because of lack of a good camera and my husband keeps on insisting that I'll be able to use them after I give birth, I wasn't able to post it online. Oh well, I won't be thinking other ways to earn if only he can provide us all the things that me and my daughter wants >.< But sadly, I just have to accept that I married a man like him. But eventhough he is like that I know that my husband is trying his hard now and finding ways to becoming a millionaire by thinking what he should do so that his Vmobile network grows as he wanted it to be.

The money that I borrowed from my parents arrived this day in the afternoon. I am still thinking what mini business could I start with just a 5k capital. I can't open the sari-sari store obviously since it will require 4 times than that so I am stucked with eloading I guess. I don't want to pursue my first plan of investing it in a perfume business since I don't have a market here in the province and I am afraid that I won't be able to sell it here. I am still weighing my options and I already asked my husband to help me with it. Unfortunately, he has another idea in mind and I am still thinking if I let him have it.

As for now, I'll keep on applying on Odesk - a web where you can sell your skills. Hope I could get an easy project soon for a start eventhough the rate is low but continuous and really pays. So help me God.

Happy New Year, folks!c",)

After waiting for a month for my payment...I've been scammed

I am talking about the writing gig that I was discussing about the last time. After working for a few days that they'd say they'll pay me on the 20th of September and then moved to October 5, 2011, the only payment I received was 230 Php minus the Paypal fees. I worked for $48 all in a month but I only receive that from them telling me that I should deduct it from the $29. The $29 was my completed assignments from August 31 to September 10. I got another project which costs about $19 from September 11 onwards. Honestly, I have another project from them which I said I can't finish because of my pregnancy. I know it is my fault for not submitting in time and out of 8 750 words articles, I only done 4. I kept on telling them sorry since its my fault and even said that I will not get the payment for it which costs $16 I think. I know they are mad about it but its not a great reason for not paying me atleast near the amount due for me. I really felt bad about it and the stress add to the hard time I am feeling because of my pregnancy. I might be posting the articles I have made since they haven't paid me I guess it is still my right to use my articles and publish it here.

By the way, I met them in femalenetwork/girltalk with SEOfocused as the job poster's name. I just don't know if they are related to the seofocused website that I found on the internet, because they are using that name even on the virtual contract that they've sent me. The 230php was sent to me through paypal using the email limsandra80@yahoo.com. They've used the email thebrightlights11@yahoo.com at first and then they've changed to gwritersco@gmail.com (Great Writers Co.). The one who sent me the terms and conditions has a name Melissa Catalan on it

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=13219695d0a18dba&mt=application/msword&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3Db466e9ccc5%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13219695d0a18dba%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbRE6O1hNG6XVUgyTQhS0WSXUKCaiQ&pli=1

I already emailed them thrice I think but I got no response until now :( I can delete this post if only they could pay me on the jobs I'd already finished.

I really hate insurance topics, why? Because my brain blocks all the information about it like what it is doing right now. I know there are a lot of topics about insurance over the net but they all contain same information that I've already written up. Ugh! I have to pass this tomorrow enable for it to be counted for the cut off but my mind is kind of going in a whirlwind state. Is this a writer's block? or just my laziness hahaha! I actually slept half the day and play Zeus half of it. And here I am now out of 15 topics I just finished two! Another bad thing is it has to contain keywords atleast 3 times! The good thing is that it only consists 350 words but the topic is I really hate. Ugh! Insurance! Insurance! Hope I'll be able to pass this tomorrow...

Finally landed a writing job!

After several days of applying for an online job, I finally had one! I was surfing the girltalk forum and someone posted a part time article writing work. After reading it, I emailed the thread starter since she had an email on her ad. After a while she said that she'll going to test my skills first and gave me a topic. I worked for it until noon but didn't submit because I am not yet satisfied with my work. I actually applied the writing technique I have done in the test article of my "super internet training" with sage and squid that they graded "quite okay". So there, I went to buzzle.com (the one website that sage and squid told me about) and read some posts about the test topic. I'm a little bit keen now about those writing styles which I got from reading from buzzle and qualitygal. Quality Gal, was another writing website which emailed me a few days ago and asked if I could do a test article too. So there, the next day, after re-reading, checking for errors, proof reading, etc for my test article about organic cosmetics, I submitted it finally. After a few hours, she emailed me back and said "Congratulations, you're hired!" I am happy but there's a part of me that I still doubt the employer and I have no way to search for her in the internet, just the seofocused site that she put under her name on the terms and conditions she sent me. Then I was expecting a topic that I will do, fortunately she sent me many hahaha! I don't know what to do about it and how will I finish it till the next day which is August 31 by 10pm. I'll have to write about coffee, 14 articles , 400 words each. After seeing the $18 I agreed hahaha. Dang! Seeing the $$$ mark, I got so hyper and think about how will my story will go. So I researched wikipedia, google, etc every info I can find. Since I am not good with words what I do is just write it on my own, on how I understand it. Shh, I even copied some sentences since I am lacking with words! But then it goes well and hope will never end

application for writing gig

Months ago, we spent 2,500php for my enrollment on article writing training and they sent me some modules. Modules that looks like a copy-pasted slash forwarded messages on my email that you can usually find in internet search engines. They sent me 8 files and only two of it has relevant information that I need. Then they ask me to do two 500 words articles right away giving me the topic and how many times the keyword will be used on the whole article without explaining what is the use of the keywords and other information. They said they want me to be familiar with time pressured works and knowing about the keyword thing, I comply. But what if I am really a newbie and doesn't have any idea about it?

I passed the two articles within 3.5 hours disregarding the quality so in the end they said that its all useless and lots of grammar mistakes. I got pissed off and told them that is why I enrolled in the training for my grammar to be corrected. I even told them that I have some important things to do the next day so I won't be able to pass the articles again but they insist that I pass them the next day. What I do is I ignored them and when my mood strike back after a week or two I think, that's the time that I redo the articles and passed it. They said its quite okay and they will let me have clients but I have to practice more. They will give me the other modules and give the site where I can get clients IF I will pay the balance of 2,500php (training costs 5k).

I've met two people in the forum that said that I don't have to pay for article training. My previous employer even laugh at me about the thing. She said that she didn't know that there's a thing like that. I feel like I've been fooled because there's no assurance that you'll get clients after the training. What if the site is like odesk, elance or freelancer.com that I already know of? That you have to bid and apply for you to get a job. I know it takes a lot of hardwork in applying a new job but seeing my situation on that training and the modules that they sent me its like a waste of time.

Sorry if I have to rant here, its my site anyway =P. I told my trainer (Kim) and even the one my mother in law know of (Ms. Jojie) that I will find a way first to have the money to pay the balance when actually what I am doing now is applying for possible ways to earn online. I know I can't write well because I can't really express and write the words well on my own but with so much reading and practice, I am sure I'll hit the mark soon. Even though my brain became rusty for years, I applied as a writer in a site referred by a friend. I'll try the transcription job too and hope to take the test and hope I pass it. Even if I could only earn $10 a week for a start, I'll be happy with it.

Investing to Paid-to-click: an experience

A few weeks ago, I got addicted to PTC's that in everything I do I always think about the possible earnings that I could have. I then ask my sister, if she could lend me money and she said yes so I bought an Alertpay fund worth $25. I invested at IB but still keep clicking on other PTC's like BTB and B4C, etc. I decided to go for verified membership with $3.5 fee and purchase 25 rented referrals good for a month, that was $10.75 . I was so happy that my rented referrals clicked the next day but their clicks are not constant, so I wasn't able to earn the target earnings I should have. I decided to rent again after a week another 25 rented referrals. After a week, there are inactive referrals that I need to recycle and it costs me much. I should've go for PAID membership which is $25 but I will lost all my investment because of a 1 year membership, I won't be able to rent rented referrals to earn. With other problems occurring on the website, my upline adviced us that we shouldn't invest now so I didn't renewed my rented referrals for another month or so. I withdrawed atleast $10 of the earnings I've got on my maintaining balance. I've decided that whatever earnings I will made until the end of the month, I will transfer it to my rental balance to rent or renew referrals. I'll be keeping active referrals that atleast reach the required average and renew them for atleast 90 days or so. Hope my strategy works.