Proof of how awesome God and the Universe are.

I tweeted these a few days ago:

And you know what God and the Universe gave me just a few hours ago? A full-time, homebased job with a freakin' book publisher! How cool are God and the Universe? If that's not gonna make you believe that some cosmic being is on our beck and call, I don't know what will.

Staff.com

In my pursuit to make my work-at-home dream a stable reality, I have joined several (i.e. A LOT) online job search sites that offer mostly home-based jobs. There's oDesk, Freelancer.com, Elance.com, TeamLauncher and Remote Staff just to name a few. Yes, these are the sites I remembered registering in. There are still loads that I forgot about because I unsubscribed from their newsletters.

Click photo to register with Staff.com

Anyway, to add yet another online job search site, I've just registered with Staff.com. Staff.com is practically the same as those websites I've mentioned already except Staff.com offers mostly full-time jobs which definitely got my attention. I work with TeamLauncher for 8 hours in the morning and I know that I can still handle another 8-hour job after that. Plus, my contract with TeamLauncher will end soon so I need to go look for another full-time, work-from-home job again so the timing of which I knew about Staff.com couldn't have been better.

I'm sorry if I keep shoving these stuff to your faces but working from home is really relaxing compared to a corporate job. The income is the same, the benefits are the same... The only difference is I work on my bed and you work on an office table.

You know what will be really great?

I have been working my ass for two years in oDesk and I have always been wondering if they offered medical plans to their freelancers. Good news: They do. Bad news: They're only offered to US citizens.

I really hope they offer this to other suppliers, too. I guess it's safe to say that majority of the contractors in oDesk are mostly based in another country, right?

Welcome to my life.

Ah, the life of a freelance writer can be really fun and frustrating at the same time. There are a lot of truth in this picture. Especially the What I Really Do part. Hee.

WHAT MY FRIENDS THINK I DO: Actually, that's literally how I look when ending my articles so it's kinda consistent. Yes, I get writer's block in the end. I know how to start my articles but I always go "Huh?" in the end.

WHAT MY MOM THINKS I DO: Well, at first, she thought I wouldn't build a career out of this freelancing stuff and I didn't contradict her on what she thinks of my work. It gets really tiring to prove whatever it is that I "need" to prove. Anyway, now, she thinks that I will be able to pull this off...and I definitely will. I am even planning to take up an online marketing course offered by DLSU in order for me to offer even more services to clients.

WHAT SOCIETY THINKS I DO: I don't think freelance writers look like that but I accept it. I mean, the guy's hot so I assume that society thinks freelance writers are hot. *wink wink*

WHAT PUBLISHERS THINK I DO: Okay, I don't know what that is about because the monkey looks mad but I don't think my clients think that I'm a monkey. Too literal? Sorry.

WHAT I THINK I DO: Yes, and I want to believe that I am that great, too... NOT! Well, I don't think that I am great but I think I am literate enough to get my works published.

WHAT I REALLY DO: I don't play solitaire, though. I usually tweet and browse online stores and apply to more jobs and watch It's Showtime. Hee. But I get the job for the day done before the 4pm deadline. *snap snap snap*

Anyway, I knew I could succeed in this work from home gig. I just need to be even more hardworking to get more projects...and yeah, that IMMAP thing with DLSU. I definitely am aiming for that this year. Hopefully.

I am working from home now. Here is a picture of my work station.What's wrong with it?

It makes me wonder...

I haven't told my parents yet about my decision to not be a slave of the corporate maja rajas (for the meantime) but I can't help but wonder if they'd accept that decision. I know they can't FORCE me to do something anymore because I am legally an adult already.

I feel that they will really disown me when I tell them I've chosen to be a homemaker instead of a corporate slave who works hard to make a company richer than it already is. I mean, they spent millions to send me to prestigious schools. Who wouldn't be mad, right?

Then again, different people define success in different ways. Will they be able to accept my definition of success or will they pretend my life isn't a success because it doesn't fit their definition of the word?