Ed Earns

In my quest to lessen unnecessary expenses, I had been thinking on what I’m going to do in order to cut those Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) costs from bank to bank.

I went to our office pantry the other day in order to get coffee and somebody came up to me to talk about blogging. I remember that he emailed me a couple of years ago and asked me a few questions about how to start a blog and how to earn online.

I’ve had my fair share of earning money online by writing about paid posts wherein Advertisers would place their links in my blog entry and I would earn a few dollars per article. It’s nice because the logic I’ve thought about before was that so long as I write about a particular product and earn 5 USD per website, if I had 5 websites, I’d earn 25 USD!

I was talking to a colleague during lunch on how he was able to invest his money on mutual funds and he tracks them online. “The money’s good so far”, he says. He seems to be pretty happy with his current job since he gets to own his time without having to worry about climbing the corporate ladder just to have a higher salary.

After about 4 websites, most of the niche blogs that I set up seem to be purely out of luck. I know I’ve been able to create quality content with them but somehow I’ve been missing a lot since the earnings I was aiming for did not live up to my expectations.

I work in a business process outsourcing industry and I’ve been with the company for more than 5 years already. Some of the things that stop from me leaving, aside from the salary and the people I work with, are a number of perks that I get. Meal and transportation allowance, discounts on certain establishments, great and high quality equipment for working, and a lot more; not to mention the prestige of being employed to a multinational company. These are small things that add up to a sum when you think about it in the long run.

I’m so glad I switched to a Unionbank EON card, at least I won’t have any issues with withdrawing an extra fee for every transaction whenever I transfer my funds from my PayPal account.

I’m actually relieved with the savings I get especially now that I’ve been able to take some cash with me without thinking about those extra fees.

Like I always say in this site, I haven’t been blogging as much with my other sites (particularly my two personal sites) because of not having enough time to update them. I don’t know if my statement made sense cause it felt like I just rephrased the thought.

It’s been quite some time since I last updated this site and I blame it all on working on my tasks because I need to settle my finances so I may live a debt-free life next year. Doing so will enable me to think of other options without having to weigh a factor in just because I need to pay off something that I could’ve already settled in a long time. But with the blog projects that I’ve started pursuing, I’m almost there now. My target would be on November when I’ll finally be able to save some money for traveling and investing.

For a few months (four months to be exact), I’ve been pressuring myself to achieve results. I know it was going to take some time, but it seems that I haven’t been generating enough feedback as I wanted. That’s okay.