Change Over 40

Perhaps I’ll just move it. I haven’t decided. I have two subscribers to this blog, and one of them is me. Most of the comments that I receive are spam with the notable and shining exceptions of comments by Gip and Ken. Recently, I’ve started working on a website which will serve as my IT portfolio. Given the lack of interest here, I think my time will be better spent working on that.

This has been fun. I’ve learned a lot and made a couple of friends along the way. The domain and hosting are paid up for a couple of months. I may save a few posts for use in my portfolio, but the site will probably disappear as I don’t intend to renew my domain or hosting.

Gip and Ken, if you keep writing, I’ll keep reading.

Most people complain that someone is always trying to sell them something. I seem to encounter the opposite. I have been in the market for a few things in the last six months. I’ve tried to buy them. Really, I have. However, I get to the closing point and the sales people just disappear (if I’ve had any luck getting a response at all). Here’s my list:

Business liability insurance -sales person didn’t respond to followup emails.

Online technical training -sales person promised to send a quote and didn’t. The class is supposed to start Monday. Guess I won’t be there.

An ebay lot -seller requested that potential bidders contact her before bidding. She never responded and the listing expired.

Maybe I have bad timing? Maybe correspondence with me leads to life threatening events which prevent them from getting back to me… ever again. I don’t know. I do know that it’s saved me quite a bit of money that I would have spent if they’d responded! No buyer’s remorse for me.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Well, it’s been a little while since I wrote the article about places to write for upfront pay.

Remilon – Remilon pays by the hour. The pay is above minimum wage, which is $7.25 in my state. They pay twice per month. You must work a minimum of 15 hours or complete 10 articles per pay period. The maximum number of hours per pay period is 80.

Textbroker – Textbroker now pays once per week. You will be rated when you apply. You will be limited to writing articles that are posted at or below your rated level.

Constant Content – This hasn’t changed much from when I last wrote about them. I’ve heard that editing times are longer lately, so give yourself plenty of time. One word of caution, you must be able to edit your own work if you want to sell articles on Constant Content. If your submitted articles are returned due to errors more than a few times, you will be barred from submitting any more articles. Ever.

That’s the end of the list of places that I’ve written for and will still recommend. Google’s rollout of Panda has greatly reduced the number of content writing jobs that are still available. Here are some others that I’ve read about but can’t vouch for:

iWrite
Merchant Circle
WordGigs

Good Luck All!