Earning money is tough, especially in the Philippines where you have to work your asses off just to live comfortably. Aside from my full-time job, I started writing bits and pieces online to earn a few additional bucks. Early this year, I attended a seminar and one of the spokespersons mentioned about 'eLance" -- which …
…to Life’s Little Choices
How's this for direct? On my last visit to my OB, I was informed that I may need to come to a decision to stop working in order for me to have a child. It was due to the fact that I am overworked (I worked the whole Holy Week and even on Saturdays and …
Hustling
While I would like to make myself believe that I have enough money to fund the stupid things I usually get into -- I really don't. I maybe working from 9 to 7PM, and with responsibilities that can kill an overgrown elephant -- but if you would care to look at the status of my …
Freelance blues
With a latest "travel project" currently in the works (please see here), I am now occupied with trying to come up with additional funds to further build the travel fund. I used to have a steady freelance work writing copies for a competitor of my old kaisha. I write content for flyers, brochures and even …
Navigating the tricky world of freelancing
I've been doing a bit of freelancing job lately, writing copies ranging from hawking whitening products and convincing women that having white skin is beautiful--an idea by the way that I didn't support. So, in between writing proposals and project plans for the company, I am also writing spectacularly written copies on the benefits of …
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The thing about freelancing…
...is that it's not as easy as what people think. This, I realized at 1:00 o clock this morning as I try to set-up a system for the recent freelancing group that I joined. As I copy my resume and try to build up cred online, I realized that buying a laptop computer and having …