And That’s….the Truth

So I have made some decisions regarding my online life. Currently I spend a lot of time on the computer and I think I’m getting burnt out. So I have made some heavy decisions. When the kids go back to school (in less than two weeks) I’m going to cut back the amount of time I spend on my computer. I’m going to cut back on a few blogs (currently I have seven), slow down a bit on the general transcription and then try to get my crafting business back up and running. If I need some extra cash I can always pick up some extra shifts at work. So these are my plans for now.

I normally have weekends off at my outside job, normally work on my computer the entire weekend so I really don’t get a true weekend off. Well I have made a decision. I am taking the weekend off! I am taking the entire weekend off from working on my computer. I’m normally on here seven days a week and am starting to get burnt out. So if you don’t see me around till Monday morning, don’t be alarmed. It’s just my weekend off.

So as most of you know I do some general transcription at home for a couple of people. Well lately this work has kind of been taking over my life. Both my clients keep me pretty busy. Now normally I love doing this type of work and I make a little bit of money doing it so most of the time I’m happy with my choice of employment. But over the weekend I wasn’t. I had one file that had a lot of words in it like nuphedragen and I spent a lot of time researching these words which cut down on my typing time. So this file took me quite a while to do so I didn’t make a whole lot of money on this file. Hopefully I won’t see a file like this for a very long time and I can once again increase my typing speed which will help me earn more money.

I really do hate the split shifts at work. I almost despise them as much as I hate writing articles on topics that I’m not really familiar with. Yesterday I was given an assignment to write about noxycut and I’m pretty sure that wasn’t my best work as I really had no clue what I was talking about. But like this article, my split shifts will come to an end real soon as well. I’m really hoping that today is the last day that I have to do one of these. Really, if this keeps up much longer I really might go insane.

Every morning when I wake up I lay in bed and go through in my head what I need to do for the day. Well this morning as I was laying in bed, and thinking about purchasing some prada shoes, I was trying to remember that there was something special that I needed to do. I almost forgot! I need to go to work today for 12:00 instead of 5:00. That would have been a major mistake on my part if I hadn’t remembered. But, I did so at 11:30 I will be leaving my house to go to work. Man I hate when things change.

I really have to wonder if this situation occurs commonly or if this is a unique situation to my place of employment. Why is it that when people apply for a job, they are willing and eager to work as much as possible. But when they do obtain the job and start working then they decide they don’t want to work after all??? This happens all the time and I’m starting to get really sick of it! We have so much staff at my work, but most of them don’t want to work so we are constantly working short. So… this situation is really starting to get on my nerves. There’s really nothing I can do about it (I’m not management), but if there were…. the entire place would be restaffed. If it were up to me that is.

My husband has been employed at the same job for almost 12 years but lately things haven’t been going to well. For the past three months he has been trying to get a long with his new manager and this really doesn’t seem to be working out very well. He rants and raves about this man and has even asked questions as to how the employment screening in his company works that would make them hire someone who has no clue as to what their doing.

Well things came to a head last week and today is going to be a very awkward day. The other guys as his work got together and complained to HR about this man. So there will be an investigation today and one person they want to talk to is my husband. I really don’t know what will come out of this. But if it stops his ranting and raving for a bit then I’m all for it.

Well I guess I spoke too soon. Over the past week I have been doing a lot of transcription from home. These files that I have been working on took me an entire week to finish. But I did finish them and kind of thought I would be done for awhile. Well you can imagine my surprise when my company contacted me this morning and asked if I could do some more transcription work that includes a lot of life insurance quotes this weekend. I really didn’t want to say yes, as it is a holiday weekend, but since it’s money, I really couldn’t turn them down. So… you guessed it, I will be tied to my computer once again this weekend.

Well things seemed to be going along quite smoothly with my working from home jobs, until today. Today I had to drop one as it really wasn’t what I thought it would be. And after figuring out the money, it really wasn’t worth putting that much time into any job. Then I just heard from a second contract that they are going out of business, so I have lost that job as well. Oh well, I guess I’ll start looking into sites like philadelphia job listings to see if I can find a couple more contracts to replace the two I lost. I’m not discouraged. I understand this is the way life can go sometimes in the online world, so I guess I’ll just keep plugging away at it.

As you all know, I do a lot of work from home. I find this is a great way to supplement our household income and with both the kids in school, it really does give me something to do with my time. Well, lately I have been checking out some online admin jobs and I have to say that I have found quite a few that I think I’m qualified for. I think I’m going to apply to a bunch of them and see where this all goes. If I could get just one more contract online, I would be very comfortable in leaving my outside job and just working strictly from home. I’ll be sure to let you all know how I make out.