You comes after Friday and before Sunday. Flowers for you, Saturday.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
So Far So Good...
"Nothing could succeed in discouraging you, on the contrary, obstacles will stimulate you. You'll be well decided not to let yourself be disheartened" That is what I read about me for the Chinese calender year of dog. I am not a believer of horoscope or prediction. I believe in my own effort and initiative.
So far, it has been good. My freelance job looks positive and hopefully I will have a regular income. Personally, I regard this as my passive income. I know most people won't agreed with me. Passive income is suppose to 'generate' money without much effort and time putting into it. I look at it as work that gives me pleasure and excitement. I am motivated and put in 200% in my work. I will take extra miles to make each work a success and my clients satisfied. When I have satisfied clients, I get return business without much self advertising.
In my job, understanding each client's uniqueness is vital. Flexibility is a must. Good pay master will keep me alive. I had to fished in the sea for a quite while before I found a few good clients.
Since the first day of 2006, I have been rather busy with design work. Having to work during the day, 5 days week, this leads me to have to skip my beauty sleep most of the nights. Sleep only comes at wee hours in the morning. Normally that will be the time when clubers return home after an eventful night. When people are dancing the nights away, the ladies taking their beauty sleep, I will be in front of my 8 years old pc indulge in my work. Next to the pc will be a cup of coffee or chocolate drink. Occasionally music is my companion throughout the nights.
Weekends is not for shopping or hanging out with friends. I spend my full weekend working because this is the time I can get a lot of work done. Of course, I don't stare into the computer 24 hours a day. There are time for cooking my favourite food, try out new recipes I read from the internet and cooking books. I also have time to clean my apartment and do the laundry. I even have time to watch my favourite movies on DVD or read a good book. Life can't be more satisfy.
With 2 jobs, I also have time for lunch or tea with my friends. Of course, planning has to make before hand or I will end up not meeting my dateline. Speaking of 2 jobs, there is a vast contrast between both jobs. My day time job takes the toll out of me. Working in a multi national company and a lot of issues to resolve and maintain good working environment for my staff is draining out my energy. As the company grows and staff increases, politic and potential politic is unavoidable. All I can do is managed it the best I can and tackle an issue one by one.
Then, there is my evening job. I work from home without anybody popping at my desk all the time. I can work peacefully. I can get a lot of work done and quicker. I only have a handful of staff and I managed them remotely. The beauty of internet and all the 21st century technology. Business can be done with just a computer, a scanner, a printer, broadband access, videocam and a headphone with speaker. No politic, no gossip, no need to watch my back, no need to go through all the hassle and unpleasent things everyone has to do when we work from 9-5 and more for 5 days. For the unfortunate few, it is an extra half day added in.
I have few projects going on for my evening job and dateline is impposible but I am very satisfied and enjoy every moment. I put extra effort to help my clients and build a trusty business relationship. I look at it as partnership with my clients. I am generous with suggesions and ideas. I give more than what my clients asked of my service. Why do I go all the troubles to do this? Because I love my work!
A win-win business relationship. I hope the year will continue to be better and brighter each day. Time to go shopping. Till next time.
So far, it has been good. My freelance job looks positive and hopefully I will have a regular income. Personally, I regard this as my passive income. I know most people won't agreed with me. Passive income is suppose to 'generate' money without much effort and time putting into it. I look at it as work that gives me pleasure and excitement. I am motivated and put in 200% in my work. I will take extra miles to make each work a success and my clients satisfied. When I have satisfied clients, I get return business without much self advertising.
In my job, understanding each client's uniqueness is vital. Flexibility is a must. Good pay master will keep me alive. I had to fished in the sea for a quite while before I found a few good clients.
Since the first day of 2006, I have been rather busy with design work. Having to work during the day, 5 days week, this leads me to have to skip my beauty sleep most of the nights. Sleep only comes at wee hours in the morning. Normally that will be the time when clubers return home after an eventful night. When people are dancing the nights away, the ladies taking their beauty sleep, I will be in front of my 8 years old pc indulge in my work. Next to the pc will be a cup of coffee or chocolate drink. Occasionally music is my companion throughout the nights.
Weekends is not for shopping or hanging out with friends. I spend my full weekend working because this is the time I can get a lot of work done. Of course, I don't stare into the computer 24 hours a day. There are time for cooking my favourite food, try out new recipes I read from the internet and cooking books. I also have time to clean my apartment and do the laundry. I even have time to watch my favourite movies on DVD or read a good book. Life can't be more satisfy.
With 2 jobs, I also have time for lunch or tea with my friends. Of course, planning has to make before hand or I will end up not meeting my dateline. Speaking of 2 jobs, there is a vast contrast between both jobs. My day time job takes the toll out of me. Working in a multi national company and a lot of issues to resolve and maintain good working environment for my staff is draining out my energy. As the company grows and staff increases, politic and potential politic is unavoidable. All I can do is managed it the best I can and tackle an issue one by one.
Then, there is my evening job. I work from home without anybody popping at my desk all the time. I can work peacefully. I can get a lot of work done and quicker. I only have a handful of staff and I managed them remotely. The beauty of internet and all the 21st century technology. Business can be done with just a computer, a scanner, a printer, broadband access, videocam and a headphone with speaker. No politic, no gossip, no need to watch my back, no need to go through all the hassle and unpleasent things everyone has to do when we work from 9-5 and more for 5 days. For the unfortunate few, it is an extra half day added in.
I have few projects going on for my evening job and dateline is impposible but I am very satisfied and enjoy every moment. I put extra effort to help my clients and build a trusty business relationship. I look at it as partnership with my clients. I am generous with suggesions and ideas. I give more than what my clients asked of my service. Why do I go all the troubles to do this? Because I love my work!
A win-win business relationship. I hope the year will continue to be better and brighter each day. Time to go shopping. Till next time.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Hello 2006, How are you?
I know it's a bit late to welcome a new year but hey, it's still in its first month so I'm sure it's not an issue. Many things had happened to me during 2005 and some of them I would rather forget.
Well, this is 2006 and I hope it will be a better year for me. My resolution for this year is to take care of my health and hopefully able to lose some weight. I know when my friend read this, he won't believe it. This is because I have been trying to lose weight for so long. Anyway, I hope my resolution to lose weight will stay in focus because my health is deteriorating. I sense it is deteriorating in a fast pace too. Besides that, I would like to lead a healthier lifestyle.
During the end of 2005 I joined my friend and another partner in a project which lead to the birth of a company. I'm not the main share holder of the company because financial in not on my side. I would execute the work coming in while two of them look for contracts and projects. They are the main share holder of the company. This is a fair deal because they have contacts and finances while I have the talent and skills. Both party gains. For 2006, I hope that our business will continue to grow and improve. Hopefully someday I can work from home. That's the dream of a bookworm.
After working for 8 years, I have to admit that I'm getting tired of corporate world and its politics. The higher the corporate ladder I climb, the more ugly the politic. Everyone is trying to save their own a** and keep their job. I don't blame anyone. In this century, the employment belongs to the young. When you reach 40s, you are an endanger species. By then, I will have to try to keep my job and monthly stable income. Before that happen, I am looking for a remedy and it lead me to team up with few friends and work hard to build my own personal income. I found self fulfilling when I work from home and during the night. Even though I have to cut a lot of sleeping time and weekends but I am much happier because it is the fruit of my labour. Therefore, I pray to GOD that HE will bless us and open a path for us to grow our business.
My partners are planning to get me a new pc or laptop sometime this year. I hope it will be soon because my old pc is dying. Now I have to wait for the budget so I can propose a laptop. I would much prefer a laptop because I will be doing a bit of traveling and it will be much more convenient for me to work from anywhere.
Traveling, yes, this is one of the things I plan to do a bit this year. After working for 8 years, I now prefer to go slow and see more of the world. However, my work doesn’t enables me to save a lot, not in this country anyway. So, the traveling will be budget based. I remember a good friend once said that he prefers backpacking because he will have a lot of freedom to move around and see more of the world. Hmm... maybe he was right. Budget holiday does have its fun and thrill. I will write more when I go traveling few countries later this year.
Tomorrow is my first day to work. I spend the first week rejuvenating my mind and body. I spend my time doing some reading, learn few new cooking recipes, watching movies, learn few photography tricks, doing some accounting work for my business and draft some business plans. All in all, it was a fruitful week for me. The best part is I didn't go out a lot. All I need is internet access and many things get done. Internet access, the one thing I can't live without it.
Well, food supply is finishing so I would have to do some groceries shopping after work tomorrow. I also needs to do some card shopping because I have to send CNY cards to friends overseas. Other than that, I have to buy new clothes because CNY is around the corner. Being penniless that I am, I have to hunt for a really great bargain. Better starts now when there are still some sales going on. At the same time, I need to get some CNY goodies in case someone visits me. This will be the first time I celebrate CNY away from home and alone. So instead of feeling sorry for myself, I would rather build the festive mood to cheer myself.
Happy New Year!!
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