Angst

I'm just freaking outright angry at Odek right now. It's either my Ego is just too big for my own good thinking that I am a better, smarter, person who is literally willing to work for peanuts just so that I can get some buyer a feedbacks and experience on this online job market place OR the workforce is just so vast that I'm not getting enough attention. IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD TO GET A simple jobs that a trained monkey in Timbuktu can do. Aaarrgh, I'm just about pulling my hair right now. I just looked at my competitors. For a simple email sorting job, there was like a hundred respondents for a single job offer. It's a nightmare for me. It must be even worse for whoever is hiring because they could just be hiring someone who'll freaking report the job offer and make another commission. HELLO WORLD I AM HERE, I am a real person with a real degree who speaks your language. Hire me. Hire me now.

It's been two days and I filed seven candidacies. Of which two were rejected because I lost the bid and four others which are still under consideration. I'm really worried that this might not work out for me. I was bidding a low $2.50 an hour for one job to at least get my feet wet and hopefully get a positive review s. I checked on the blogs and found a compatriot who had posted her o desk blog and was able to send a message through facebook. She told me that it took her two weeks to get her first job and after that jobs just kept on coming. I am just so hungry for a job today that I had even offered to transcribe a ten page hand written scan to word for free in the hope that I could do repeat business with that buyer. This is driving me crazy. I told myself, with my current experience I could just walk up to the nearest call center office and get a job contract the same day. But I just so badly want to be able to work at home. My mom's visiting the country by January and there is no way any company's workforce or team lead is going to give me two weeks off the job even without pay without firing me.



So here I am refining my resume for Odesk buyers in the hope of getting a job. I photoshopped my portrait and turned it into a logo of sorts as well as converted my resume from .docx to a .pdf file. Later I'm going to have to edit my blog and try to proof read them. It's just that when I wrote some of them I was just writing thinking no one would ever bother reading them. Now that I'm selling myself to Odesk buyers I realize that I can't afford not to run spellchecker at least.

Day 2 posting in Blog

It's been two days and I filed seven candidacies. Of which two were rejected because I lost the bid and four others which are still under consideration. I'm really worried that this might not work out for me. I was bidding a low $2.50 an hour for one job to at least get my feet wet and hopefully get a positive review s. I checked on the blogs and found a compatriot who had posted her o desk blog and was able to send a message through facebook. She told me that it took her two weeks to get her first job and after that jobs just kept on coming. I am just so hungry for a job today that I had even offered to transcribe a ten page hand written scan to word for free in the hope that I could do repeat business with that buyer. This is driving me crazy. I told myself, with my current experience I could just walk up to the nearest call center office and get a job contract the same day. But I just so badly want to be able to work at home. My mom's visiting the country by January and there is no way any company's workforce or team lead is going to give me two weeks off the job even without pay without firing me.



So here I am refining my resume for Odesk buyers in the hope of getting a job. I photoshopped my portrait and turned it into a logo of sorts as well as converted my resume from .docx to a .pdf file. Later I'm going to have to edit my blog and try to proof read them. It's just that when I wrote some of them I was just writing thinking no one would ever bother reading them. Now that I'm selling myself to Odesk buyers I realize that I can't afford not to run spellchecker at least.