I´m not posting here. Don´t know why. Maybe the idea of having a blog in english is too much now. Thinking about it.
Freelance Jobs
Well, as I move on into exploring the new options the world have to me I signed myself at Guru´s and Elance´s providers board.
I´m building my resumé and/or portfolio there, but since I´m not really familiar with this world I´m making baby steps.
I´m also reading a lot about “How to be successful as a freelance” and things like “7 tips to make your profile look better at Elance” and things like that.
I´ll post some fine links to some good findings of mine at the end of the post.
I´m also accepting more tips from whoever wants to help me.
Working at home would be a huge accomplishment for me since I´ve been wanting this for a long, long time.
Office 9 to 5 can be exhausting to your soul if that´s not your profile as it isn´t mine.
Here are some cool links then:
How to Write Winning Bids and Proposals
Part I: How to Find your Niche and Bid Exclusively in It
Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn,
Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using Twitter
the lost art of solitude
Just a great post from Zen Habits: the lost art of solitude.Go. Read it.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” ~Henry David Thoreau
I´m missing solitude so much in the last few months having to say at my mother´s house for the house reform that this post was a breath of fresh air.
Evernote translation.
Just trying to help Evernote translation to Portuguese. Thats a good site, a good tool.
Jobs… again?
Just a quick update.
Since my husband and I are making a big makeover on our house, we´re staying at my mother´s for a few months or so. Just gotta tell that this isn´t the best place for calm, peace and everything else I want right now but it is an opportunity to exercise ones patience and I´m doing that.
Anyway, my mother got fired this morning. She was on her annual vacation until yesterday and they fired her as soon as she came back.
So far it has been an emotional day for her since it was also a big disappointment with her boss, whom used to be a good friend before she started working with him.
So, she will also have to find out what to do with her life from now on. Let´s see how it goes.
The interesting part is the cosmic timing. This just happened now as I´m going through some struggle period myself and … well, who doesn´t have parent issues? Raise a hand!!
Hope it brings growth to everyone here though.
Jobs, jobs, jobs…
I have no job right now. I quit my last one on 04/December. I worked at IBM for the past 5 years. No, it wasn´t an IT position. Since I live in Brazil, I worked at this huge office that handles administrative stuff for all the Americas. It wasn´t a bad job, the pay was good and all this sorts of things, but…
The big but is that I´m not graduated in business administration and that´s true for a reason: I´m not a big fan of Big Business. I like to administrate my stuff and wouldn´t mind to run a small business of mine, but I simply don´t care about corporations and executives and all this. In fact I think the world is a worst place because of them. I hated to see that their latest strategic plan was to get the small market destroying the small companies. Market share they called it. Hated that.
I also didn´t like being on the road for about 2 hours a day just to get there and come home. I also had to take the bus around 7:10am even with my shift beginning at 9am. Sucked living away from work, but I wasn´t going to move for them. Left work at 6pm, got home at 7:30pm.
Anyway, the thing is that just wasn´t my thing at all and I was really drained from all that, so I quit.
But now I´m looking for a new job with no energy at all. I don´t really think I want to go back to all that. I´m thinking home office!! Doing something I care about. How about that??
What could I do to have a job inside my house, my home?
I want things simple.
I don´t want that much money, just enough is ok.
I want more calm, more peace.
There´s a bunch of other stuff to take into account too… but I don´t want to write about it right now.
So… I´m thinking about this questions these days and let´s see where it takes me. I´m reading some cool stuff around the net about people who thinks the way I think. Really nice stuff actually.
I´ll put some links down here.
http://ittybiz.com/
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/
http://chrisguillebeau.com/
http://jonathanfields.com/
http://www.insistimento.com.br/ (this one in Portuguese)
http://zenhabits.net/
http://createwitheric.com/
About Must Simplify
I wanted to do a blog where I could post anything from the great spectrum of interest I have in some many areas.
Sometimes I wanna post something about psychology, sometimes architecture, other decor, food, recipes, jobs, philosophy, Zen, random thoughts and so on and so on…
To do that I thought a lot about a common link surrounding it all and during a few hours of insomnia I found out, the link was simple, it was in fact simplify.
I guess that my great search today is towards simplification. I want to implement this in all aspects off my life.
I can tell you right now (march/2010) that it is very very far from being the major tone of my life. Today I´m surrounded by a big mess. So, there´s no better reason than that to start this blog. To share my path, my search, my hows and whys and hopefully my accomplishments.
Hope to update this sooner than later with some of that.
