31 days of blogging - day 15

[naushika]

15. Timeline of your day

This is a bit tricky just cause I only have a very loose "timeline" of my day, since I do all freelance work and more often than not that results in me waking up whenever, working whenever, eating whenever, and sleeping whenever. But generally:

- wake up between 11am and 1pm
- get a couple hours of work in (<-- this is the stage I am in right now :D)
- eat breakfast/lunch
- do more work, around 5-7 hours worth
- eat dinner, do my tv watching
- do more work if necessary, or play a video game, or read comic books, or make icons, or whatever
- often I do internetty things throughout the day as I work, too, depending what job I'm working on and how difficult that job is being at any given moment
- also I am in team enabler chat basically all day XD also wasting time there
- sleep sometime between 3am and 5am

I need to get back into exercizing regularly :[

Comments

[timetobegin]

i just don't even understand how "days" work for you lololol. :D

yayyyyyyy stuff and things. not work

[naushika]

I DON'T EITHER TBH LOL

Yessssss, yay :D

[timetobegin]

work is the worst

[naushika]

Agreed!

[mfirefly10]

Aw, we have the same weird (to other people, anyway) sleep schedule! :)

[naushika]

Aww, high five! :D The other people are totally the weird ones. XD

[mfirefly10]

IKR?! Why get up before noon if you don't have to? :) But seriously, I've never been able to go to bed early so if I want more than a few hours of sleep, I have to sleep in 'til late morning. The only time I'm asleep before 3am is when I'm sick.

[moon_was_ours]

Can I ask you how you got into doing freelance work? Sometimes I dream of not being chained to my office...

[naushika]

It's been a very long process! I started out at basically slave wage online labor mills a few years ago (most of which aren't even in business anymore, funny that), and basically got better opportunities through knowing people who passed along tips for openings or good businesses to work for and by doing a lot of research at work-at-home blogs and forums. A really good resource is this forum: http://www.workplacelikehome.com/forum/index.php I believe you have to register to see most of the posts (it's free) but then there are many threads about which companies are good to work for, what some current job leads are, and so on. I do two jobs right now, one of which is https://www.leapforceathome.com/qrp/public/home which is always hiring afaik. There's also Lionbridge which does the same job. (Both contract work with Google.) The other job I got from someone who does the same thing I do, she does multiple freelance things, and she works with my boyfriend on web SEO stuff and she passed along to me through him about an opening with another place.. it takes some networking sometimes but the forum I mentioned above has lots of resources too and people generally work together to ferret out the good jobs. (The specific subforum "Work at home job leads" is the best place to start, there are some helpful lists of companies as well as of course recently discovered openings.)

Some major job opportunities there are are phone jobs from home (I'm not interested, I worked in a call center for years so I'm pretty over that, BUT the upshot is many of these companies will actually hire you as a real employee so there are possible health benefits there) and article writing (doesn't pay enough for me at this point and seems like kind of a slogfest but I have heard that if you stick it out eventually you will start making good money). If you have a particular skill you can always try to market yourself that way, I don't really have anything I'm good at so I just try to find work with companies. But my boyfriend knows SEO stuff so he does a lot with that specifically on a client-to-client basis.

The biggest tip I have is to diversify. I work two jobs, my boyfriend works two jobs, and that's important because with this sort of work one day you will wake up and there is an email telling you "hi we don't need you anymore you're fired bye", lol. But making your own schedule can be so nice! And being your own boss! It's great.

Sorry this was kind of rambly! I hope it helped though and if you ever want more advice or have questions I am right here. :D But that forum is really where I'd go first. I've used that as a resource for years!