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. :-)