day 4

It's the weekend. It's a weekend.. someone's bound to respond by Monday U.S. hours. Sigh, It's satruday today and instead of going out I up stuck here... sigh.. My dad was commenting about my work and was suggesting that I just review for the NCLEX. He also forwarded me USCIS reply that they were reviewing my immigration case.

On the bright side my mom finally got her laser surgery for her eyes. I guess they were in a bright mood considering that they (as parents never stop worrying about their children) lovingly provided me with a tirade.

One of the topics was on trying to help out Leonie. MY dad was telling basically telling me that since I was "idle" that I might look into possible business opportunities in our property in Nueva Ecija. Nothing high tech over in Lupao, just rice land and onion plantations... then again that land is part of my roots. It is where I got the very rice I've subsisted on since birth.

Anyways the illustion shows my current job applications. So like mom if you acutally read this.... I am looking for a job right now. It's just that I'm not looking for a traditional office work okay.

10/10/2009

I woke up at 2pm hungry and I couldn't understand why cuase I did have a meal before I went to bed. After last night journal entry I realized that Odesk must have several bots data mining job postings and then reposting these jobs to the higher bidder or worse yet there must be an operator or several operator harvesting jobs information and possible candidates. I went outside to go grab breakfast and my eyes were hurting because of the sun. It's a beautiful afternoon, the sun was up and everything.. it's just that my eyes were accustomed to the dark. I dad a cup of rice and "sinigang na baboy" at the corner carienderia. The diner's owner asked me if my bike was stolen. Hello, my Yamaha mio was stolen three months ago and told him that yes I was still waiting for the insurance to cough up the money so I can buy a new one. Well, actually I think I'd get a used bike instead lest it gets stolen again.





My last job posting last night before chatting with Edwin was to do surveys. I really am hoping to get this job. It pays $5 an hour. I'm sure I am qualified for the job. I just know I am far more than qualified for the job. I JUST wish they'd read my God Damned resume. Sigh, it's a Friday night right now in the US whoever posted will hopefully reply by Monday.



I problems booting my pc a earlier and just couldn't get online. It was good thing I had two operating systems running on separate hard disks. I basically booted the BIOS and switched to Vista. I then did a hard reset on my DSL modem and finally got online. I stepped outside the house to a breather. I Was anxious about the job application and I really am worried if I can make this work. I browsed over other providers and realized that there really were a lot of competent people out of work. I had no reason to be mad at the Odesk website. It's a tool I just had to learn to learn the ropes. I was just curious though, there was this candidate who claimed to worked for Linksys as a supervisor and I looked over her Odesk test results. I don't mean to be mean or anything, but I never really bothered to work as a supervisor but my test scores was head and shoulders over this supervisor. Sigh…

When Edwin logged on Yahoo messenger I promptly told him that I already hooked up Skype. The voice quality better than GIZMO project. Edwin, my long time friend, was the section chief of The Medical City in Ortigas who opted to work as a researcher for a Laboratory in Japan. He was bragged about a pair of Kenwood speakers he bought at a bazaar a couple of days ago and I told him about the 32" LCD TV I got . I think he's doin really good although he still needs to get used to the cold.



I checked Odesk for a reply still no luck. On face book though I was pleasantly surprised that Alex also added himself as an Odesk fan. Hmmm I didn't realize that some people were really curious about me. Mommy Cel said she looked over the pictures I posted about the Ondoy floods in Sampaloc and how her car just floated. What really interests me now though was Joy. Joy said she "just wanted the hurting to stop". Joy used to be my office mate for this American Credit and Charge card company. Yeah she openly admits she's gay. We had a crush on the same communication trainer. I couldn't help but wonder why she was hurtin. A couple of days before she posted a quote from Paulo Coelho "A no with pain is better than a yes with regrets" and Nikki commented "You nailed it"…. OMG!!! What is going on here.



Anyway better get back to trying to figure out why I couldn't boot my XP machine and then tidy up. … Sigh, it's Saturday and all my friends are either overseas or married with kids.

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.

My Odesk Journey: A Filipino online worker’s journey to earn a decent buck.

I’m writing my experiences as newbie on the online job market place Odesk. If you get the chance to google Odesk on wikepedia it states:

oDesk allows employers (“buyers”) to create online workteams coordinated and paid through the company's proprietary software and website. Prospective employers can post jobs for free, and freelance workers (“providers”) may create profiles and bid on jobs, also for free. The company puts potential providers through “a rigorous screening.”^[6] The company collects 10 percent of the payment. Payments are made through oDesk, which handles many bookkeeping tasks for the transaction. In addition to the marketplace aspect and the payment/bookkeeping services, the company uses collaborative software, “oDesk Team,” that allows employers to see a provider's progress while he or she is billing time

My journey began several months ago actually. At that time I was happily working as a representative for a top American credit card company who had partially outsourced their call center workforce to an Indian company. This Indian company I worked for then further outsourced it’s talents to the Philippines. Yeah I know it’s a lot to swallow, then again that’s the truth about the global economy.