Ed Earns

I just had a conversation over lunch with a fellow blogger/colleague and we were talking about our jobs. We’re running 4 years within this business process outsourcing industry already and we have come a long way from being classmates back in our product training class. Although we haven’t reached our peak, it seems that the years have passed by so fast. Funny at times that we wonder what will happen once we reach the 5 years if we’re going to opt for an early retirement or we’ll pursue other careers.

I have my fair share of doubts and questions on how I see my future. Although it seems that I’m busy with my blogs, it seems that I haven’t really pushed myself to the limit in promoting and marketing them. I know there’s a huge potential in the blogging market but I still need to tap some resources in order learn more.

Then there’s studying — I have to go back to school within 2 months and stay in it for probably a year until I get that elusive diploma.

In the mean time, I’m preparing myself for some travels that are lined up for me in the coming months.

It was a busy lunch; somehow it seemed that I did all the talking.

I find solace over the weekend. Maybe because it’s the only time that I get to relax a little. Though I still have a lot of work to do, it’s because of my days off that I get to spend more time doing nothing which is already a big thing for me.

It’s already the remaining half of the 2 days and now I’m just waiting for time to pass before I have to get back and work again. Let me just enjoy a little rest while I can.

Part of the job that I do as a freelancer/web marketer is to make good use of content being presented to me and write articles about them in order to make them fresh and readable for our target market.

Right now, it’s taking me some time to transcribe some audio files, interviews of important people, so I can take bullets and churn out quality article information out of them. I’m not used to writing what I’m hearing word for word but I’m getting the hang of it. I know this isn’t what I’ll be doing for the entire month; for now, I’m still a noob so I guess I can excuse myself for the delay of output.

When I’m bored, I’m bored.
When I have a lot to do, I do nothing.
When I think about the things I need to accomplish, I don’t accomplish anything but think.
I worry about worrying.
I’m a working class zero.

Oh yeah, I edit.

I don’t know about other people but I get more work done being alone. I can do more tasks and be more productive when I go about my tasks by myself. Although it would be good if there’s somebody who’ll be able to give a tip or two on how to got about accomplishing a task, I tend to veer from topic and end up not really doing anything.

Still, this freelance work of marketing sites is helping me learn more about what I need to study as well as see the potential in this business. I still have a long way to go.

I’m now going back to work and I haven’t even done a lot of work even on leave. I just felt the need to sleep while I was away but I’m still exhausted from all the stuff that I’ve been doing.

Oh well, so far, SocialSpark has been good to me and I’m not busy with anything except for the freelance job that I have. For now, I need to work on writing more articles to have a better flow of marketing the sites that we have.

It’s back to work, Ed.

As usual, I’m cramming and I’m waiting for the time to make things even worse. These freelance jobs can leave one exhausted especially when one task comes after another and you’ve already started a pace that would make you even ask for more jobs. But when you don’t have any jobs to work on anymore, the momentum is broken and the cycle leaves you drained.

Now’s not really one of those cycles wherein I don’t have anything to work; it’s the exact opposite. I have so many things to think about and thinking about them makes me tired which makes me not work on them at all because I’m most likely sleepy already. Now when I do have the energy to work on it, another one comes up and it all just piles up and I can’t take the stack anymore.

I still have around 3 days to work on the necessary areas so I can catch up. I’m losing time already and it’s making me sick. I can do this!

I’m feeling the pressure of not being able to comply with the tasks that were assigned to me. I’m cramming because I’ve not been very productive and sleeping has been the only thing on my mind due to how haggard my days have been.

Haggard — first time to use the word in writing.

So now I’m catching up on writing articles as well as finding good content online to post as part of the blogs that I’ve established. Creating content and scheduling them for publishing hasn’t been easy though it’s just simple.

There are still so many things that are in store for me and I’ve not been my best self lately. I just need to concentrate more.

and as usual, there’s so little time. I’m juggling the salary the I’ve earned and I’ve been depositing and withdrawing moolah and transferring funds and paying people and bills. Somehow I need to learn how to pay myself and get some good rewards.

For now, it’s all work still. Ayayayay.

I am swamped, as always.

• Work on Vertical Blogs – I need to transfer product content to from one location to another. It will take some time for me to really recognize the merchandise. I know I had a stressful one when I transferred the first batch; imagine I have to transfer products with different batches in 4 other blogs.
• Article Writing for oDesk – 10 articles focusing on one topic. It can be done; I just have to scout for more emails to insert the key terms
• Blog Entry – I need to create a good article entry for the main site which is pretty draining as this will be my first major contribution on the actual site itself.
• Update my 5 other Blogs – just so everything will have an entry for the week.
• Spin Articles - ahh, I just have to submit this one to an article directory.

Sometimes I’m just thinking too much but I know I should get things done quickly and effectively in order to be more efficient.