I feel like I never have much to say on my blog, despite having random ideas of things I could post about throughout each day. It's been longer than I thought since my last blog! Since then, a lot of exciting stuff has happened -- mainly, I got engaged!!! Yay! We are so excited and are having a lot of fun planning our wedding, which will be next summer! :D We have a lot of our vendors set and only need to figure out a few smaller things like invitations, ceremony music, and then all the smaller details like the exact menu and music, making table numbers and place cards and any other printed things, favors for the guests, hotel gift bags, the possibility of a chuppah and/or a ketubah, and making or getting some decorations and candles to place around the venue.
I keep trying to think of ways I can make money while I'm home. I have been trying a chocolate business from home, which is a lot of fun and people seem to love seeing pictures of the chocolates I make, but unfortunately, it's not exactly lucrative. I had a few orders, but factoring in the cost of supplies barely has me breaking even...if not at a loss. I've also been working on Amazon Mechanical Turks -- where you complete short tasks to earn amazon money. They're pretty good, but generally you get about $.01 to $1.00 for each task, so it's more for a slight amazon discount than anything else. It can be frustrating when the tasks don't work, but overall it's ok. I tried signing up for some random work from home things too -- most seem pretty scammy, but some may pan out. Who knows. I applied for one today where you transcribe audio into text. I had to pass a typing test and submit a resume, so I'll see where that goes. It seems slightly more legit. It will take a few days for them to get back to me, it says, so we will see. It's amazing to me and kind of sad and aggravating that in this day and age of computers, high speed internet, and video chat, that anyone needs an actual office anymore. I honestly don't get the point of having one for any company. I never really did. Unless it's a storefront for customers, it just seems like a complete waste of money.
Anyway that's my rant for the day, haha!
PS -- After a brief google search, I found that even a magazine that always takes the corporations side, a conservative, business-minded magazine agrees with me! Maybe I'm not hopeless corporation material yet! Maybe some day, some forward-thinking company will understand me and hire me for my brilliant ideas ;) Meanwhile, I'll just contemplate them to myself while all the companies continue to do things wrong and stupidly.
Seriously, check out this Forbes Article.
