Dilemma?

Hmm, to look for a regular WAHM gig or not, that is the question. I'll probably do oDesk as soon as I'm done with the last parenting article I have to do for this batch, but I'm not sure I want something more like a part-time online thing. I've gotten used to having 95% of my attention devoted to childcare and homemaking. I really love it... Well, the wise thing do to will be revealed to me in the coming days, I suppose.

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Payday Mayday

A Convo about the Holidays

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So this probably means that I actually spend a great chunk of my online hours just goofing off instead of actual working. No regular gig, no online time. Just have not had much motivation to sit in front of the computer lately. I do have a few parenting articles to write. It means I'm hunting down experts to interview again and it's unsavory job. For me anyway. I'm not the most charismatic person out there and I have a hard time asking for favors. Also, I do not leave the house, so I limit myself considerably.

I'm also reading books a lot, which is an activity I prefer to going online, but I feel like a total slacker. Marguerite and I go out a lot (just out the door, up and down the stairs and elevators, around the parking lot - but not outside the complex) and that's great mom-daughter bonding going on there. I really would rather have days like these, only not with the money worries from being out of a regular gig.

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Ms. Brightside

Okay, here's one way of looking at it: had I still had that job, I would have been a nervous wreck last week since I was mostly in bed sick. I'm still out of a regular paying gig and, from the looks of it, I may not be paid my last invoice. To kick up a fuss or not, that is the question. The funny thing is that I've been going to Craigslist and I see ads for what I strongly suspect to be the job I recently vacated. "In need of somebody who can write car-related articles, has good writing and editing skills..." What the! My initial reaction is to send my résumé before it occurs to me that it all sounds too familiar. Then again, I may just be paranoid. If that was actually my old gig, then I would feel... bewildered. I know I was doing fine. My immediate superior frequently told me so. Well, no point puzzling over it. Time to move on.

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Time to Use a Pseudonym

Okay, this has happened before. I wrote a story for a magazine and the staff edited my story in a way that left it brimming with grammatical errors. Anyway, I more recently wrote an article about, well, something. I suppose it was pretty lengthy and in the process of cutting it down to a shorter read, some grammatical errors managed to creep into the article. I immediately checked my original to see if it had actually been me who had made the error, but, no, I had written it differently. Oh, well, c'est la vie and all. I'm just cringing because it has my byline. Sigh.

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