Ed Earns

I have 4 friends who resigned from work in order to pursue careers in blogging and freelance. These people all worked in a prestigious contact center and they were all my colleagues. I even started blogging before them and I influenced a couple to start sharing their thoughts online and earn some income at the same time.

The funny part about this is that I was the one who told them that I’d raise the white flag first. Now, I’m the one left in this business process outsourcing industry; still doing the same things that I’ve been doing for almost 3 years now. I actually feel toxic knowing that the job has been monotonous already. My friend told me that I’m at a plateau and I’m not moving anywhere. I know I should take action but the job that I have is the most flexible one considering that I’ve been doing freelance jobs at odesk, onlinejobs.ph and blogging jobs at sponsored review sites and other payperpost sites.

These jobs don’t really generate a stable income and the benefits are less when it comes to insurance and security; however the possibility of owning one’s time and being able to stay in a different place is limitless. Doing freelance work and blogging makes you less location-bound since you only have to have the internet and a good laptop computer in order to do your daily tasks.

My goal now since I haven’t really gotten full-time with my freelance work is to pursue my education and get that diploma. For now, I can just be envious on how free my other colleagues are who already resigned in order to work on a freelance scheme. I’ll definitely join them but it’s not about to happen anytime soon.

So I was let go. Actually they’re still keeping me for freelance tasks that need immediate inputs. My freelance job has stopped momentarily and apparently, I was able to breathe a little now knowing that I’m not as pressured as before.

I feel that a cloud has been cleared off from my head and although I’ll be a bit broke the succeeding days, I now have some hold on what I plan to do in the next couple of months. I won’t have to worry about looking for more time in order to rest.

Having 2 full-time jobs was very taxing on my part. That’s 80 hours a week and I was wondering where I had to look for sleep. I’m still under them, but I’m less hassled with the tasks.

‘Odesk: too busy on other projects‘

This is what I usually do when I decline interview offers from possible employers in odesk. With my current workload and the things going on in my other personal transactions, I get caught up with time that I can’t commit. Offers for different job requirements and pay rates are turned down since my bucket is already full as of the moment.

Being too busy on other projects doesn’t give me the right to complain with the skills that I have. It just goes to show that there’s a lucrative market for web marketers as this form of business relationship hasn’t been really tapped by most people in third world countries. Although it’s still emerging, there’s still a large percentage wherein people are not aware what they can do online and still prefer to go on an 8-5 job that gets security and insurances in between. I don’t blame them. I, for one, am also part of that demographic until something will come up which will force me to think of this alternative as a career.

For now, I just keep on turning them down.

I let go of one of my jobs in odesk. I had to, considering that I was losing sleep already and stress-levels were rising. I know I should’ve been more patient but sometimes the value of the product is being given lesser credit. But in totality, I just had to give it up in order for other opportunities to arrive.

I haven’t lost hope and I know that someday, I’ll be able to hit the jackpot in this online freelance work.

So I have two employers now. I’ll be writing articles for them on a weekly basis which is good as I get paid on the same term. It’s nice since I wouldn’t have to rely too much on opportunities that I get through blogging which is sometimes nil at critical moments. Although I’m glad that I’m lucky enough to receive some good-paying articles, it’s not enough as always and I’d like to hasten the process of earning which is the reason of the number of bosses.

I hope everything goes well from this time as I don’t want to be in the same state that I’m relying on my work salary for support. I’d like to help out my family now and be able to really move our status to a better standing.

Darn it, the past few days, Odesk.com has been having some issues with it’s website that I find it hard to check out other job opportunities as well as update my profile for employers to check. It has been nice though that I already have a couple of jobs, I just need to finalize the 2nd one which hasn’t been giving a good time to do so because of their temporary problem. Sometimes it’s up, sometimes the server just goes out. Anyway, hope everything gets resolved soon.

Somehow, my regular work outside has gone up and now I find myself without getting much sleep because of finishing the opportunities that were assigned that I need to comply. I’ve got 3 articles to come up, 2 rewrites for my current employer and 1 sample article with some keywords integrated for a new one. Been doing my best to accomplish them as fast as I can since I also have to add some Facebook friends for another employer.

Ah, I hope it will all be worth it afterwards since I’m tired already and I need to get up and get a good bath. haha. Guess I’ll go to the gym now before I go to work.

I received a message from a Buyer from ODesk asking me to quit my current jobs so I he could employ me to be part of his team. Apparently, we seem to have something in common and that is the love for travelling. He even commented that he finds my style of writing good. I would’ve wanted to quit but then I’m also obliged to fulfill my contract as I don’t have enough experience in oDesk and I’m still trying to establish my reputation. I had to turn that offer down since I also have a full-time job outside this internet world. Hopefully, I’ll be able to land a job in future projects with him as the interview email seemed very personalized which is one thing that most buyers, including providers lack in the freelance job industry.

Just had my first real interview, interview with a prospect employer in oDesk thru Skype. I hope I can nab this job. I haven’t been pretty active in this job marketplace because of so many reasons that turn out to be excuses. I hope I can work these things out as I’m saving and saving for the rainy days that are about to come. I’m not even that confident with my skills but I know I can learn. I just need the stamina to back my perseverance. Confusing but not really.