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Work Report - Mike Crowl focuses on jobs and work and anything connected to the two.
Mike blogs in two places on Orble, and two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.
Firstly, I have to wonder why I'm not appearing in the list of blogs...I've got more posts here than Love Crisis, or Fire News Blog or Perfect Pores. I wouldn't mind if I was even on the bottom of the list, but I ain't nowhere!
Secondly, I forgot to mention one other site I managed to register for yesterday. My first blog there got a rather rude response from one of the other people. It's a place called GoldAge Forums, and nearly all the posts are about money. Maybe I should have expected this, given the title, but it seems almost obsessional
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Last night worked at my real part-time job till later, so didn't get home to check out further options on the Net. Nevertheless, at some point yesterday I managed to get hooked up with a couple more pay by posts sites, one of which seemed only to have started in the last five minutes, virtually. (Okay it's maybe three days old). But I did a review of another site (which I also had to join!) and that earned me some points quickly. I'm a bit obscure as to how these points get turned into cash, but I'm assured that they do. The 'owner' of the site seems to have a slightly odd system in this regard, but at least he's hands-on, and not distant. Let's hope he knows what he's doing.
The other site that I had to join to do the review turned out to be having a bit of a re-vamp so things were rather chaotic there. They emailed me, at least, to apologise for this, which was a plus. You may find, if you try to access that link, that it's not functioning at the moment. Plainly there are more road works in the process
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Work was slow last night, so I was sent home early. Spent the next couple of hours investigating more online possibilities for earning some cash.
I've now learnt that anything that has lots of !!!!!!! is likely to be a waste of time. Anything that has grammatical or slpeling errors is also likely to have been written by someone else on the make, and is not to be trusted. (Though it's extraordinary how many people on forums, given the chance to preview their work, still manage to post it full of spelling mistakes
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Yesterday I applied for four more jobs, three of them admin type, one of
them with NZ Post as a mail sorter, working from something like 5.30 am till about 7.00. (That's not as bad as the last job I applied for with them, which began at 3.25 am!)
I should be able to do any of these jobs standing on my head (though whether the other staff would appreciate that or not is another matter). All I need is an interview! And nobody else applying....
Should have mentioned that the place I'm working at part-time/casual has an atmosphere I don't remember experiencing in a long time. There are probably about 30 staff (they don't all work all the time; there's quite a lot of coming and going) but there's no ill-feeling, no backbiting. There's lots of good-humour, a warmth that is, for me, unusual. Most of the staff are women, but there are several blokes there as well, including two of the three managing staff.
What was special for me was their reaction to my mother's death. I was asked several times in the week she was ill if I wanted to leave and go to the hospital. And the night we heard that she wasn't going to get well (I was working), the woman in charge made sure I got away early so I could go and be with my family. And the first question when I returned this week was how I was going after my mother's death
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It's ridiculous, but tonight I got my first pay packet in months, and I feel like a kid again.
Unfortunately, because my mother died at the beginning of last week, on the 17th, I couldn't work last week as planned, so the pay packet was rather reduced. Still, precious mothers come first, and the loss of a week's pay was nothing compared to the loss of her. (She'd lived with us for 22 years, and was very special to the whole family, especially my children, who grew up with her always being around
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Today on the MyLot site, I came across a discussion that started like this:
"I'm a 62 year old unemployed school teacher that needs a job to support my 15 year old daughter. When I apply for a school teaching job they will not hire me due to my age. I also worked in advertising for over 20 years. Any suggestions on how to make some money at 62 years old will help
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Since I left work, one of things I've done reasonably successfully, is sell books on Trade Me, New Zealand's version of Ebay. (In fact, Ebay hasn't taken off in NZ nearly as well because of Trade Me, which is a huge thing here.)
At first we hunted through the hundreds of books in our house and sold off those that we knew we'd never read again (even though there was always that feeling that we just might), and then gradually we've gone to garage sales and bargain shops and so forth, and picked up books at good prices
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While I've been unemployed for the last few months, I've been going to my wife's workplace and doing some of their filing.
I guess you could say it's quite a come-down from the sort of work I've been doing, and yet, it's quite satisfying. I know when finish that that's it for the day. I don't have to go back for another week. And it's very unstressful
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Came across a site last night called Constant Content. It's a bit detailed to get started on, but it looks as though it could be profitable if you send them the right sort of articles. It's a better deal than Triond in one sense, in that you get decently paid for your work. But there's still that old issue of finding a publisher. At least the website does that side of the work for you, for the most part.
Triond, on the other hand, will basically take anything you publish, but the payments are miniscule since they're based on Google Ads. However, the articles keep on making money, which isn't the case, for the most part, with Constant Content - in spite of its name. Most publishers of your content there want unique rights. Not entirely satisfactory. Triond says that the stuff you publish there can't be published elsewhere, either, nor can it have been published before. So I suppose there's not a lot of difference.
One of the reasons I've been spending so much time on the Net lately is that I've been trying to find some work - not so much in the sense of real paid employment by a typical company (I've been doing that as well) but in the sense of picking up a few extra dollars to keep us more afloat. I can't say that the promises of many of the places who claim to pay out heaps of money come to anything. Invariably they want you to pay them first, and though some will offer a money-back guarantee, I'm getting very cagey about those ones that have long flashy letters with testimonials from people who don't appear to have addresses and who finally, at the very bottom of their letter, tell you that this is going to cost you $420 but they've reduced it - for the next two minutes - to $49.95. Huh?
The only genuine one I've come across so far is Blogitive, which is an off-shoot of US Web.com. They've consistently paid me what they said they'd pay. It isn't a large amount because they opportunities to get paid are limited, but at least it's always been there when they said. Another crowd, Bloggingads started off well, giving me two jobs within a short time of my contacting them. And then paid me straightaway. Since then...zilch! It's like they've vanished off the map. The website is still there, but there's no access to your personal account, and no way of getting into it except by registering with them all over again
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The last time I was out of work - nearly twenty years ago - I remember having no luck whatsoever in trying to get a job through a personnel company. Things have been no different this time.
I've had one interview via a personnel company (hereinafter called PC in this post) and that led nowhere; I've had a nine-day temporary job, way back in September, and nothing else from that company; I've had considerable frustration with another PC that invited me and a number of other of their clients to come to an evening where a potential employer would talk about the prospective additional part-time employment they wanted to offer. In this case I got nowhere twice, even though one of the PC staff - the manager of their head office, in fact - said that I was ideally suited to the job. Yet one of the other staff, the one I'd thought was looking after my situation, claimed I didn't have a corporate fit. I nearly had a fit of some other kind, when I heard that on the phone
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Getting another blog under way is always an interesting task. This is the third I've got running now, and that's giving me plenty to do. (My second blog is a family related one, so it's not really on public display.)
I'll be writing about whatever takes my fancy, though the focus will be mostly on the arts: music, movies, writing and so forth. And then there's the matter of work: since the end of August I've been pretty much unemployed (apart from a part-time evening job), after having worked solidly for seventeen years at the same job. Trying to find something else has brought me face to face with the sheer difficulty of starting out in the world of employment again. It's a bit like starting to date again, I guess, though that's something I haven't had to deal with for over thirty years. And hopefully won't have to again in a hurry unless my wife gets thoroughly fed up with me and decides that she can't stand another day. At this point, that's not a likelihood, thank goodness
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