This Pinoy Odesk Newbie got out of bed around 8 pm manila time, around 7 am CST. I just had a really weird dream. In that dream I got to visit my brother and see his project in Chicago. I was looking at a holding pen with a weird piglet wading in a dark thick liquid suspension akin to maple syrup. The piglet was probably two weeks old. What struck me most was that it's body was like sponge bob square pants. Boxy, spongy body with legs and a pig's head. Kinda reminded me of a large fried block of uncut tofu (tokwa) with legs. It was just outright weird. If dreams, the ones you get when you’re in REM sleep, is the brains way of internalizing what we experience during our waking hours my dream could be explained by my last meal and the discover magazine I read before I dozed off. I had "tokwa't baboy" about six hours before I fell asleep. "Tokwa't Baboy", is a Filipino contraction of Tokwa at Baboy", translated pork and tofu. It's basically bits of pork, preferably the ears, and fried diced fried tofu in soy sauce, vinegar, sliced onions with a touch of salt, pepper and sometimes "labuyo", the local chili. The discover article I read right before going to sleep could have lead to that dream. Geneticists were able to grow a human ear from a lab rat. Xeno implantation was a fascinating subject when I was still studying.
Of the four interviews, one was a god damn salesman, one was an Indian conglomerate who though I was running a sweat shop, one was my own buying company (yeah I know, more of it later), and the one was a blogger from Spain who also runs a blog.
I got to bid early for the voice over job that specifically stated $1.50 an hour to read articles for his up and coming podcast about dogs. Sigh, Odesk is going to the dogs I tell you. I managed to run audacity, created a clip and sent it via email then ftp. It has been four days since that interview and I have yet to hear from him.
I'm writing not to dissuade anyone from joining the Odesk workforce which is now 300,000 strong. I am writing to vent out my frustration and to prove to buyers out there (helllooooo, I'm for hire), that I am serious, determined, skilled, creative, tenacious and HUNGRY to get started.
At the same time, I hope that this blog, serves as a warning to my fellow Pinoy Newbie’s to set their expectations straight. I am told, and I'm finding this out, you got to be determined to make it here. Is Odesk a waste of MY time? Only time can tell. However looking as I stepped back, I see a man who is ill.
The DSM IV-tr, or whatever the current version, would describe this Pinoy Odesk Newbie as suffering from an obsessive compulsive disorder with flights of fantasies and delusions of grandeur. Oh did I mention before that I have two college degrees?
In plain English: I am stubborn dreamer who believes in my self-worth and refuses to give up.
