Hello, friends! I just realized it's been so long since my last post. I haven't really done much these past few weeks, but I'll update you anyway because I'm rad like that! LOL
So you see, I am still in Cebu---soul-searching. Haha! Well, there are a couple of things I need to get completed before I can conveniently slip away into that quiet little town that I am not much a fan of. Haha! As I've said, I haven't really been up to anything significant in the past few weeks, hence the absence of posts here. But today, I would like to tell you a story about how I get by each and every day of this blessed life.
I am 26, and I work from home. Yes. I work on the computer, on the Internet---no stable job, no insurance, no bonuses of any sort, no Philhealth, Pag-ibig, SSS, and all that shxt people in the corporate and not-so-corporate world are entitled to. I am a step higher than a bum because I earn. Today, I will be enumerating what I love and hate about the work I am currently doing.
But before that, a little background. Yes, you need this background because every time I run into people and ask what I do now for a living, I find it really difficult to answer. I don't know. It's just that sometimes, I feel like they wouldn't understand! Oh well. My main job is to write content for my client's Web sites---blogs, press releases, commentary, etc. He also makes me check his email, update his Facebook and Twitter pages, do SEO and other brain-killing tasks. So yeah, this is my main bread and butter. On the side, I edit manuscripts for some publishing company. I have a few other projects from other clients too. It's a crazy world, and a girl's gotta eat, ya know!
PROS
One of the things I am definitely grateful for with all this homebased job thingy is that I get to own my time. Well, not most of it, because I still have to work a shift. But picture this: I wake up, turn the laptop on, go online; if client's not there, I can just go back to sleep until he goes online. Sometimes, he leaves notes from the night before so I get to work on them as soon as I log on. I also clear out his inbox. If in a day he doesn't give me an assignment, then I can just do whatever I want.
With this job, I get to spend a lot of time with the people who matter. When I was home in Surigao, I was able to take care of Yuri. I waited for him outside his classroom while busily typing away. It's cool that I get to do that. I'm supermom! Haha! NOT.
Because I work from home, I do not need to go out and commute to the office every day. My office is conveniently placed at the foot of my bed, or whichever area in the house I would like to work in. Sometimes, I'm in the living room, the bedroom, the dining table, outside---just anywhere.
It's a day job. I get to sleep well at night. During those times that I spent working the graveyard shift, I felt myself die inside. I was tired and frustrated all the time. No matter how much sleep I get in the morning, I still wake up feeling tired. It was really a struggle.
The pay is OK. Well, apparently, I'm still alive and I've sent my kid to school. So yes, this will do---for now.
CONS
The thing about home-based jobs is that your social life just dies. Because I work from home, the most human interaction I get in a day is with Horace, Hanzel, or the help who comes in every day to clean the house and wash the clothes. I don't even get to see our next-door neighbor (well, also because I don't want to see them. I'm never good with neighbors, really. I'm that impaired.) So forgive me if I blab too much on Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr---it's the most social interaction I can have!
Also, this job isn't stable. Who am I kidding? I could wake up one day, and my client has shut me out. I could wake up and get fired. I do my job well and good, and my client seems to be happy; but we never really know, do we?
No insurance. I've been sick---well, I am sick. And the thought of getting those tummy aches again and being rushed to the hospital gives me goosebumps. Not because I'm scared of hospitals and needles and stuff, but because I don't have medical insurance! Hospitalization and other medical what-not are incredibly expensive! I can't afford to be sick these days.
Which brings me to the matter of health. Imagine life just sitting down in front of a laptop. Sedentary. Sometimes, I can't even bring myself to take a bath anymore (which is not new, my friends would definitely say so). I need to go out more, move more, ya know---be alive!
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Well, so much for all that ranting. At the end of the day, I am just proud that I have a job. I may be just be a couple of dollars richer than a bum, but what the heck! I earn my money, I spend it on things that matter, and yeah I get to blog about it! INYERFEYS! :D Till the next post! Toodles!
