Moving Forward

I’ve actually gotten some pretty good news the last few days. Just when I thought I was going to toil away at Google’s least favorite content farm forever and ever amen, I got myself a new client and what I call a w2 job. Seems like a lot of work for working from home, but it’s really not.

My very first telecommute job was lame. Their software needed updating, so it wasn’t equipped to handle that much Intranet traffic. And getting help from a SSM was damned near impossible. They had so many people to supervise and some of just got ignored. We were left to find our own solutions to the problems. A little more direction would have been helpful, but too late to worry about that now. I’ve moved on to another one, which I start next week.

I’m starting the job for my IC client next week too. Passed all the necessary skills tests (that trigonometry course really did come in handy in my real world) and now start the training. I didn’t think I would need to go through all of that to get this position, but they wanted to make sure they were getting someone with enough intelligence and OCD to get the job done. I was so fucking happy when that job rolled in. I’m not going to lie. I’ll be thrilled to put that on my resumé — my real one. Not the one I use for this persona.

I thought for a little while that I should combine my personas and maybe take a little bit of each of them to add to my list of accomplishments. As Lizzie I’ve done some good writing. At one point, I was actually on the way to really making it. That was before I went left when I should’ve went right, which doesn’t even matter now. Now, I’m a lot more focused and I’m getting more back in the game. I know how to keep the shit off my shoes and the fleas out of my hair.

I was thinking about writing one of those “How to Make Big Dollars Online” manuals that some of these lying, scammers are offering up for $30 a pop. Mine would only be $15. I’d hype it up and encourage all the newbies to buy it. Inside I’d put instructions on how to scan a dollar bill and blow it up poster size. How funny would that be? The newbies are getting these ebooks and webinars to find out information that they can get on a million websites for free. Why aren’t they utilizing Google and doing this?

The sales pitch is always someone showing someone else what’s in their best interest. It’s always “I make $5,000 a month!” and “How to Get Rich by Blogging”. So, dummies see “$5,000″ and they see “Rich” and they think “At home” and bam! Hooked. There’s nothing in any of these books that can’t be had for free. The authors of these books got the fucking ideas for free. Their technique for making money online? Writing ebooks and hosting webinars to tell people how to do the exactly same things they’re doing. I hate people like that.

I’ve been trying to stay away from that mindset. I haven’t stayed away from the idea of posting my own advice on my own blog. I may not make millions a month, but I can consult them on other things to help them be successful. Impart my warnings to them. Help them watch out for the liars and the cheats. I realize there are plenty of people who are offering this wisdom, but I can be a little different.

At any rate, I’m off to prepare for my new w2. I’ve got to do a blood test and get my i9 notarized. Then I have to do my hair. All of that so I can sit in my home office to make some money. I’ll have plenty of time to write, though, and am even thinking about reapplying for BellaOnline (I did like writing for them). We’ll see how it goes. First bit of advice: Have yourself a spot to do your work.

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