I have other jobs on the horizon with regard to the Textbroker November slow down. These jobs are in transcription. They will help my finances a lot. I did the books from July to October, and saw I had income balancing me out. Then, in October, I hit the holiday slow down which meant there was less money coming in. I’m now in “must conserve strips” mode. I have managed to talk myself out of getting paranoid in the last three years living by myself. November 22nd, 2019 will mark three years since my family left. It is nice to be drama-free. I don’t have to be constantly picked at by them. They have a serious need to take medication. They don’t. But hey, they hardly know this blog exists. We can keep it this way. Not that they would take an interest.
I had long thought telekinesis was fictional bullshit. Actually I thought anything psychic or mind-reading was fictional bullshit. I thought Uri Gellar was a seasoned stage magician who liked messing with people. I didn’t know that in 2009, I’d start bending spoons and forks (which is known as psychokinesis) when I’d get really frustrated with the drama in my family. Any sort of drama, really is very triggering for me. Then it turns out that telekinesis was not fictional either because I managed to do it in front of my psychiatrist. Don’t think that’s a joke, it isn’t. I’m not saying her name, or where she works. She switches, she’s a state funded sort. I swore her to confidentiality. I need to keep this stuff semi-private only because sometimes, certain government parties take an interest in psychics. An intensive interest. We do not want to have to deal with those black hats.
Yes, I’m 4’10. You are going to shut up about this. The next time I walk into Occupational Therapy at San Jose State, I am not dealing with being called shorty. You see, my GI says I’m cleared for rough sports again. This means that when my knee is better, despite a small hiatal hernia I can go back to martial arts. That is my intention anyway. Although I have to be wary of sudden throwing up because of this hernia, and I have to not get bronchitis or pneumonia this winter because of my hernia. I’m fragile, and my therapist will get an email from me as to why people who call me shorty can’t pick on me or risk making me very ill. So the thing is, tall guy, keep your goddamn mouth shut since I could use my chi to push someone twice my size around. You want a piece of me, tall guy?
For once, I managed to sleep in. The seasonal changes that October brings to California are kind of rough for me. The sun does set earlier and earlier until by the end of this month, sunset is at 4:00 p.m. My neighborhood is not the most well lit at night either so that is another reason I do not walk around at night. I slept in, because there was an Internet outage, so as a result I couldn’t do my work early. My brain is very quiet today but yesterday it wasn’t necessarily too loud because of the psychic noise I get, or for the schizophrenic noise for that matter. Sleeping in today was kind of cool, and that Internet outage did help a lot.
Some applications will not get accepted, but others might. I have tried many a work from home job board. Flexjobs never yielded much for me except one company I won’t name but that had a lot of drama. I try to keep my life drama free since that causes me stress, and agitation. The website “Real Ways to Earn Money Online.com” is very helpful to me as is Indeed, and probably Linkedin on a minor level. Transcription jobs abound online, and today I have to practice my training for one such job, as those jobs are easy to get anyway.
As much as I have a very sweet doctor, I think it is high time I made money, work from home sort of money. Real income. It is possible to make money from home. There is such thing as a PASS plan, and working on all my business ideas that are on my USB drive. I will eventually wind up making money, so I’ve learned to relax about that, taking it all on faith. Without faith, you get nowhere. If I’m going to be a motivational speaker, I have come to realize what I’m missing in my approach to life.
If you want to submit your work, you get rejected if the magazine does not feel that the piece is adequate for their publication. If you want to get published somewhere, take the time to read, really read the publication in question just to figure out how to put your article together. Cracked is easy to write for since I’ve read it a lot over the years. Try to make sure your work will be a fit for the magazine. Adapt to them; tailor the piece to their needs. Pitches have to be brief, and they also have to make sense.
Nobody will buy a piece that is not pitched well. Adapting your work to the magazine is necessary if you want to get published. Publishing work on a regular basis means that you will have visibility. A byline refers to your name being put on the story itself. Getting work out there involves doing research about the publication, to see if your article will fit in. That is really all that is required. I regret not taking the business of creative writing at San Francisco State, since that would have been useful to my work quite a bit.
I’ve been working hard to submit my writing, and in particular with my vocal media work. Vocal Media gets me a byline, and so does Deliberate Magazine. Now, I’m looking for ways of freelancing or finding more online work. I am now in the process of writing down all my ideas for next year, and I think I may have to put together my fan fiction ideas too. The freelance writing folder on my USB drive has folders on various topics in it. Remember, I have a background in anthropology at the A.A. level from Foothill College years ago. Creative writing is pretty much average compared to my anthropology with honors. I took online classes for that to happen.
My newest novella attempt is The Land of True Blood, which is a huge story metaphor, and an assignment taken from Cyndi Dale’s book, Energetic Boundaries, as I’m trying to heal myself by writing that story. I’ve also found this assignment in Beverly Engel books. So I’m going to try writing it, and turning it into something that can get published. I think I could make extra income that would last me months, I have to go report it when I make it, during tax time.
Yes, I feel it is time for me to make money, real money, but my doctor says to maintain my benefits. Well, I could sell those business plans, although I do need hernia surgery eventually. I’m working on many different projects, in particular books that could be used to make a profit. I have to pay my formatter though. She is formatting the book. I’ve decided to use my pen name to publish books of a psychic nature. That pen name is there so my family does not learn I did such a thing as publish my book.
In order to become a certified resume writer, one must get a certification first. I’ve been looking into this besides the transcription training I’m going to be working on this week, to get a resume writing certificate and a job in writing resumes. As it so happens, Work 2 Future did not feel a need to edit my resume only because that resume is fine, and I happened to write it myself. An English major ought to be writing their own resume anyhow, any writer in any field where writing is required should be able to do this. The National Resume Writer’s Association provides a way to get certification.
You do this by signing up for their $175 NRWA membership, a $75 Writing Sample Review, and $250 exam registration. You may be able to get continuing education credits for this, because certification is valid for up to three years, as writers have to maintain a continuous membership. The test is a two-part series, half a timed proofreader test, and the act of actually writing a resume and cover letter with the information about a fictional candidate that is provided in the actual test. There is a study guide you can download. I’d go for it save the fact that I need to pay for this entire ordeal myself. See: https://thenrwa.com/certification
No help from family there. They have money they could have helped me out with, but see-that was 5 years ago. I reported it, deposited it, and went to see a psychic with it, something I rarely do. This is merely a way I have of looking into my options. Certification does not come cheap though, I found some rather expensive programs that are not worth repeating here. I have miles to go before I sleep in since it is October. Fiverr can be a place to market your resume writer skills.
You can join the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches, It’s a $150 membership, and a $250 course. Sigh, it isn’t cheap. I may err on finding work experience that can help me pay for a membership. Or maybe I’ll just fire up my Fiverr account.
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