The toughest job I’ve ever had

I’ve recently started working at what should be a simple, straightforward, freelance job.  Every day I write one review about an economical computer, and I post the entry on the blog CheapPCGuide.com.  After doing it for just five days, I have to say that it’s one of the most challenging jobs I’ve ever had.  I have to write essentially the same thing every day, yet make it sound different.  I’m positive it’s an excellent writing exercise for me, and I’m sure it will make me a better writer, but it’s mind-numbing.  On the positive side, I know just about every good computer deal on the Internet now, but on the negative side, it’s hard to resist buying something every day.  Today I wrote about a notebook computer that I was just itching to put into my shopping cart.  This job is to help tide us over financially as we transition betwen jobs, and I doubt I’ll have it forever, but I hope it leaves me knowing 389 different ways to say “cheap”.

I can’t believe I agreed to to NaBloPoMo during the same month that I’ve taken on four or five new part-time jobs.  I’m nearing brain-death and it’s not even into November double-digits.  Rather than just snacking on chocolate, I might have to start infusing it directly into my bloodstream.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/08 at 05:12 PM

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  1. Wanna know the last time I worked this hard?  When Iyari was popular and it was a full-time job keeping up with the posts and editing them and banning dumb people and catching liars and stuff.  Well, at least the new job pays actual ca$h.

    I like my new job, I do.  I just wish I was able to handpick all of my targets.  But, if the original leads sign, I guess it was worth scouring their sites for content, email addresses, and, uh, their names.

    Posted by Flippy  on  11/08  at  10:04 PM

  2. Ah, writing jobs.  I remember when I had to churn out a hundred articles on loans.  I just had to write and rewrite the same information a bajillion times.  It wasn’t nice.

    Thank god for my thesaurus.

    Posted by Celine  on  11/09  at  01:33 AM
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