Friday, February 06, 2009
Working from home
I can’t remember if I mentioned it before or not, but my sweety got laid off last year, and we both agreed that it was nice for her to not have a full time job. She’s been spoiling me with having dinner ready when I get home and doing my laundry all those nice wifely things. The other side of that, however, is that she is often lonesome without me there. So I have a new goal in life.
I’ve always wanted to work from home before, but I have a huge reason to do it now. I want to be with my honeycakes! (Feel free to wince at my ooey-gooey-ness.) I have done some freelance work (www.pennydragon.com is my freelance site) but it is so sporadic and far in between that I can’t rely on it for income. Talk about stress. I need a telecommuting job.
The consulting firm that I mentioned in the last post will take some time to gather momentum to the point where I can make a living off it. In the meantime, there must be other opportunities. I’m sure thousands of others are clamoring for the same thing, so it’s a matter of luck to find one. So far I’ve only found one site dedicated to telecommuting job listings (it’s a butt ugly site too), and most of those listings seem like temporary projects. Still, there are a few that are tempting me to cough up the $15 access fee to be able to contact these companies.
I want to work from home, but I also want the steady paycheck. Tough thing to find. Even tougher for me since I’m not blindingly brilliant at what I do. A quick-learning jack of all trades just isn’t so much in demand.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
I need a change
The CEO of the company I work for just turned 30. That makes me nearly 6 years older than him, and where have I ended up? No place in particular. It’s just a little disconcerting to look out from under my rock and realize that the world is passing me by. Even my immediate boss is younger than me. In the past I’ve posted that I’m an unambitious person who has no desire to strive for more responsibility, that I was content being a grunt. I suppose that’s starting to change. The thought of passing 40 and being surrounded by coworkers at my level that are half my age does not please me. I need to do something about it.
Being a grunt means no one listens to you, that you are easily replaceable, and basically not all that important. As I was frying my egg this morning and munching on cereal, I was struck by the repetitiveness of it all. I’ve had the same breakfast at the same time practically every workday for years. I do have a high tolerance fore repetition, but eventually I get the itch to do something different.
The online video game group I talked about before? Gone. The money guy gave up trying to get funding, and with no one else willing to take up that cause, the wind pretty much left the sails. Without funding there’s no chance for success, so I gave up too. After I quit the group, there was pretty much no more leadership. Too bad, it could’ve been fun. But an interesting development did come out of it. The money guy, who seems very business savvy and ambitious, expressed how impressed he was with my work ethic and my contributions to that group, and asked me if I would be interested in joining the consultancy he was about to start. Naturally I was interested. It’s another opportunity to be on board something that could grow into something great, and if I’m at the ground level when it takes off, then success is mine.
Of course it could come to nothing, just like the video game group. But those are the risks, and considering he’s asking for no monetary investment, I think it’s a pretty safe risk to take. All I would lose is time. I really am becoming weary of being an organ grinder for companies who have no interest in my being anything other than an obedient monkey.
