World Domination

I finished my first assignment on oDesk! I'm getting paid $4.50! Hehehe.

For those who aren't familiar with oDesk, it's a website where people can offer their services to other people or companies who are looking to get something done. Most of the work available is menial stuff that no one else is interested in doing, like simple copying and pasting into an Excel file, though there are some large projects that are sometimes advertised as well. The idea behind the idea is pretty neat, because in a sense, kinda like outsourcing, you're hired and paid by people from thousands of miles away.

I signed up for oDesk a few weeks ago, but I wasn't able to get started right away. Vince had borrowed my laptop for work, and I needed to install the oDesk software on it before I could start accepting assignments. Finally though I got my laptop back, so I installed the software, took the entrance test, passed, and started applying.

I applied for some copying and pasting jobs, and there was this one job where you'd have to pick out funny pictures that I also applied for too. The job I finally got though was, hehe, for a porno site. All I needed to do was sign up on 2 porn websites and assess the sign-up process. It wasn't as exciting as it sounds, because in the first place these were porn sites for straight people (ewww, girls, yuck), and second I wasn't too thrilled that I'd have to enter my credit card information for the sites to verify my age.

Though I had trouble using the oDesk software at first (you need to use it to properly record the work you do through screen captures), I finally got the assignment done and I got a confirmation that I'm going to be paid soon. I'm thrilled because I finally got the first step in my online career over with, and now I can start taking bigger steps and start working on bigger assignments. I hope it all works out.

Marie, Juris and I met yesterday at Market Market, and we were talking about how our online work is probably going to be our path to world domination. Hehehe. Well, things are looking bright, and I definitely feel pretty dominant right now. :-)

Home Page

I've finally got internet at home! I was able to work out a deal with my landlady's son to split his internet connection with me, and so I can finally surf the web at home. The connection is surprisingly fast, which is something we didn't expect at all given how long the LAN cable we used is.

I'm really happy because now a lot of the stuff that Marie and I were planning can finally start coming together. I don't have to go to the office just to research on stuff I need, and I don't have to rush to get out of the house if I want to work on an online project. The only downside is that the internet connection is only going to be on during mornings and afternoons. The router needs to be switched off at night so that it doesn't burn out too quickly. That's still workable though.

I'm definitely going to update this blog regularly, whether at home or in the office. I'm also going to update all of my accounts in all of the social networking sites I've signed up on, and I'll upload all the things I need to upload. Things are definitely looking up. ;-)

Planning in Pampanga

I was at Marie's place in Pampanga over the weekend. I told her last week that I was really stressed out at work and needed to get away so invited me over (even though she was just as stressed out and also needed to get away). I'll write about the cause of my stress in another post later.

Marie and I have planning all sorts of business ventures for some time now. We've talked about everything from joining multi-level marketing groups, owning our own apartments to rent, to setting up a language school for Koreans. In the end we usually stop at the planning stage cuz our dreams are too big for our wallets to accommodate. This time though, it seemed like something we were planning was actually going to happen.

I don't want to go into too much detail about our plans, especially not Marie's since I don't want anyone to copy her idea, but the gist of both our plans is to set up websites that will earn us wads of cash. Hehehe. I know that people have been doing that for a while now, and we're joining the game a bit late, but still. The prospects are exciting, and the websites we'll be setting up have to do with what we love most: writing. If our plans pan out, and I know they will, we can work at home doing the things we love most.

I will add more to this post later.

New Life, New Blog

Hi everyone. I've decided to start a new blog. I still kinda maintain my old one, but not a lot of people know about it, and I like it that way. I kinda don't advertise it on purpose, cuz there are too many intimate details about my life on that blog that I'm not totally comfortable having everyone reading. This blog will be my main public blog where the most risque entry will be R-18. All the XXX stuff can stay in my old blog. ;-)

So what else is new in my life aside from this blog? Well, not much. I'm still working for a crappy company, I still don't have a boyfriend, and I still don't get to go out as much as I'd like to. All that's about to change though. I'm not sure how exactly, but I know that it will, and I'll let you know all about it as soon as it happens.

That's all for now. I'll write more soon.