We’re Moving in!

After working from different places for a while now (and realizing the benefits of being able to actually talk to each other instead of instang messaging), we’re finally moving The Unjob to a small office in our side of town. Read more

Freelance Writing and Article Investment part 2: Maximum Exposure

In my previous post regarding Helium and Associated Content, I discussed how both article repository sites can help you earn some residual income in the long-term. By uploading your non-exclusive articles to these sites, you’re actually making your words work for you instead of residing silently in your massive hard drive.  Read more

The art (and science) of procrastination

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Having all the time in my life can be problematic. A freelancer and self-confessed procrastinator such as myself runs amok without a manager or boss to render discipline on tardiness and 3-hour lunch breaks. Still, I don’t want to go back to the office for a more organized life. I love my chaotic schedule and abstract sense of time.

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Freelance Writing and Article Investment

You’ve probably come across these familiar sites, but what exactly are they? Read more

Setting up the freelance writing pool

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Sorry we haven’t been posting as frequently as before (from 3-5 a week down to 1-2), it’s just that we’ve been so busy working behind the scenes to get The Unjob writing service up and running. As you may know, the idea for The Unjob isn’t limited to a freelance writing website: The Unjob is a freelance writing consortium, as well! Read more

The ultimate Craigslist Writer launch center!

Tired of clicking through the different craigslist subdomains just to get to the writer sites? Using your laziness as an excuse not to checkout the new ad posts for writing gigs? Are too many clicks tiresome for your index finger? Read more

Why freelancers should Lifestream

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You may have come across the term, but if you haven’t yet, a Lifestream is a repository for all your social networking activity Read more

My four favorite sites for great writing gigs

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Freelancers don’t get paid regularly. This is a universal truth for any form of freelance opportunity, and as such it’s your duty to maintain a reliable cashflow to take care of your monthly needs. If you’ve previously worked in an office, you may have experienced receiving monthly compensation without even batting an eyelash simply becuase you’re an employee. In freelancing, it’s best to think of yourself as the head of your very own business with the administrative capacity to determine how much your “company” makes each month. Basically, if you don’t get any gigs, you’re broke. Read more

The trouble with SEO: future trends and the current crisis

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If you’ve been freelance writing for quite a while, chances are you’ve scoured the net for potential leads at sites like Craigslist, elance and oDesk. These are great sites that offer many writing opportunities for freelance and part time writers, usually dishing out a variety of topics ranging from quick short articles to writing a technical product manual. Read more

Why your 9 to 5 job is so last century

My grandma thinks I’m mucking around when, at three in the afternoon, I’m still in my pajamas gobbling up her lemon bars, sipping coffee, and telling her I’ve been working all day and need to take a break. She doesn’t believe me when I tell her that, “Yes, I do have a job and I’m not slacking around.” I’m tempted to add that I’m probably working longer hours than most people with traditional 9 to 5 jobs, but that would probably just aggravate her perplexity. (And anyway, by longer hours, I really mean watching videos in YouTube till 4 a.m.).

So I tell her about this wonderful thing called the Internet (well, she’s not so technologically-challenged; she actually uses Skype to talk to her ever-elusive prodigal son), and how I can work from anywhere so long as I have my laptop with me and I can connect to a Wi-Fi. I can work at home, in a park, in a café or restaurant, even a bar at night, or in the beach. The world is virtually my office. “But how do you work?? How do you get paid?” She persists. “Everything is connected now, lola. Everything can be transacted online. Everything I need for work is in my computer” She nods and thinks about this for awhile, shaking her head with how much the world has changed.

I, too, still shake my head once in a while with how much things have changed. I’m particularly awed by how different our minds work today, how it’s evolving with the advent of the internet, in the way we absorb information and link ideas–like a web or a map. If before, the emphasis was on linear, systematic, and standardized thinking (which was what traditional factory and office work required, as well as researching in the library), today, we are leaning to a more abstract kind of thinking, absorbing information from all directions, manipulating them until we form patterns and meaning, and creating ideas that lead to another idea, and another, and another, and further amalgamating and encapsulating, including connections with long past ideas, and so on and so forth, processing almost instantly, millions and millions of bits per second.

I think it’s so cool how we can absorb a myriad of information, interlink them, and try to put order in all the chaos without having to think of ourselves as insane in being able to synthesize seemingly unrelated ideas. Our brains are evolving and there are studies to prove it too! With it, our boring lives and stupid jobs and silly emotions will evolve too. Ooooh. It’s so new age. Here’s a study that suggests human brains are evolving.

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