Ed Earns

Got a new job through ODesk and now I’m back to doing SEO tasks that will help generate quality traffic to my client’s sites. Right now, I’m going through training videos in order to maximize my time and learn everything I can to make the most of the experience.

After a weeks’s worth of vacation in a foreign country, I’m now back to my place and I’m starting to work on pending tasks. I’m going to blog about my experience to get some more hits as well as some new write-ups for the event but for now, I’m bent on catching up on my freelance work.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.