Spin Blue Magic
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Rebranding
Jan 28th
So I’m thinking about soon it’ll be the two year anniversary of this domain. Meaning, to stay or go, and if it is kept, where do I go from here? It has obviously not turned out as planned, having been mostly neglected and slightly defaced by paid postings (*shudder*).
So here is where it ends to begin again. As such, the archives are going to get much lighter or disappear for the most part altogether. This place will become a place wherein I can ramble about gaming or whatever other media interests me at the time, post writing (something I’ve been doing much more of lately, both for pay and pleasure), and so on.
I find that the entries where I talk about myself are the weakest here, and such shall remain relegated to LJ where I can be a bit freer in such rambles beyond the friends lock. Fandom things will migrate here mostly, which should be a relief to those on the friends list who aren’t inclined to hear about one or another.
When? Soon. I have a database of everything up until now so I won’t feel guilty about wiping it out of Internet existence. I’ll go through it and see what I want to keep, add the things that are floating around on paper and the hard drive, and so on.
How to make money working from home, part 1
Jan 14th
After losing my steady job last spring and submitting hundreds of job apps with little response (and a handful of interviews that turned out to be wasted trips), I’ve had to seek alternative means of income. Here are some of the legit remote work opportunities I’ve found. None of these pay enough to make you fabulously wealthy, but they do pay.
ChaCha is the largest mobile search company (with more market share than Google!). What you’ll be doing is answering queries on just about any subject that have been texted or called in by customers. Traditionally guides have been paid per transaction, but new guides earn points, which are then converted into cash from a set pool at the end of the month. How much you get paid, depends on how much you do. Pay is by monthly direct deposit ($100 minimum) or anytime by debit card (no minimum, $2 processing fee). See also: KGB
Profinity offers several inbound and outbound remote calling opportunities. All that’s required is Skype (for training and other communication), a headset, and X-Lite (a free softphone). You’ll have to have very thick skin as you’ll be dealing with customers who are sometimes very upset for at least 25 hours per week without a lot of training. Inbound is paid per minute, but calls are constantly incoming so you usually won’t be waiting (with no pay) for them to come in. It’s a pretty good hourly rate if you enjoy this sort of work. Pay is via weekly direct deposit.
Amazon MTurk is a crowdsourcing site in which requesters offer tasks to be completed by multiple workers. Tasks range from participating in academic studies to categorizing products with a lot of others in between. Always read requester reviews before starting a task as there are scammer types lurking in HIT lists and compare amount earned to time spent. You don’t want to accept a $.25 task that will take fifteen minutes to complete (effectively $1/hr) or a $.02 task with five components that takes two minutes to complete ($.60/hr). Shoot for an average hourly rate of $5-7+, when possible. Pay is made to an associated Amazon Payments account which can be cashed out to a bank account ($10 minimum, takes 1-5 business days to be deposited), used immediately towards Amazon purchases (make sure to be logged into Payments so the option to use your balance appears) or transferred to an Amazon Gift Certificate ($1 minimum).
