Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
SuNfLoWeR.cOm's New Home
I've just transferred all my blog entries from http://sue.frens.net back to Blogger. I've been having problems posting entries there for quite some time already and upon checking I discovered I have exceeded the disk space allocated. While I appreciate the service given at such a low price, I feel I have not received the feedback I wanted when I needed some answers to my questions recently. Rather than bang my head against the wall, I switched to something I can understand with a user-friendly interface. SuNfLoWeR.cOm has been around for 6 years. I hope it will continue publishing my thoughts for many more years to come.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Y E S - Year End Story
This year, November and December has been a very busy months for me. Busy means I have training and that means I have income :) But so busy till I have no time to do Y.E.S. That's year end sale.
The end of this year also marks an important milestone in my life. I have been freelancing for a year now. There were times when I have more free time and there were times when I wish I have more free times. All in all it has been a very fruitful journey where I learned a lot, met some nice people and some with interesting characters. Income wise, averaged over 12 months period is about the same as my take-home pay when I was working full time. Not bad for 1st year working on my own.
With the new contacts made and new opportunities explored, I hope I'll have more projects next year. This year, my trainings averaged 4-5 days per month. I'd like to increase it to 10 days next year. Hubby and I has to be mentally prepared when I'm busy with outstation trainings. It could be an emotional roller coaster ride for us when we're apart for a long period. My dear hubby hates me when he misses me too much and I get annoyed with him when that happens. Sigh! I've tried to keep in touch as much as I can but sometimes things didn't work out as planned.
I've invested in a prepaid broadband modem to be used when I'm outstation and wifi is not available or ridiculously priced. I even brought a microphone recently so we can skype. My laptop mic is lousy. I even got a room to myself during my recent outstation training trip. No roommate. However, the phone coverage is very bad. Even making phone calls and SMS can be a challenge.
I prefer outstation training to local training due to one reason. I don't have to beat the traffic in the morning to get to the training location. The stress of facing unavoidable traffic situation can be overwhelming.
Well... I just have to make the best of every situation. There are some things that I can control and some that I can't. Working full time, I have control over income but not job commitments. I may be able to plan shorter outstation trips and plan training schedule but things can get hectic and I may end up not able to follow plan at all. Working on my own, I have no control over income and trainings conducted as it is based on demand. I'll agree to training request if I'm free because I'll never know if next time I have trainings to conduct. The consolation of working on my own is the personal satisfaction and the free time when there's no training.
That's life. We can't have our cake and eat it too. We work hard to make a living. I'm not sympathetic to those who sit around and hope for money to come down from the sky. That's another story. Anyway, I have one more training to do before end of the year. Then I can take a breather for a while.
The end of this year also marks an important milestone in my life. I have been freelancing for a year now. There were times when I have more free time and there were times when I wish I have more free times. All in all it has been a very fruitful journey where I learned a lot, met some nice people and some with interesting characters. Income wise, averaged over 12 months period is about the same as my take-home pay when I was working full time. Not bad for 1st year working on my own.
With the new contacts made and new opportunities explored, I hope I'll have more projects next year. This year, my trainings averaged 4-5 days per month. I'd like to increase it to 10 days next year. Hubby and I has to be mentally prepared when I'm busy with outstation trainings. It could be an emotional roller coaster ride for us when we're apart for a long period. My dear hubby hates me when he misses me too much and I get annoyed with him when that happens. Sigh! I've tried to keep in touch as much as I can but sometimes things didn't work out as planned.
I've invested in a prepaid broadband modem to be used when I'm outstation and wifi is not available or ridiculously priced. I even brought a microphone recently so we can skype. My laptop mic is lousy. I even got a room to myself during my recent outstation training trip. No roommate. However, the phone coverage is very bad. Even making phone calls and SMS can be a challenge.
I prefer outstation training to local training due to one reason. I don't have to beat the traffic in the morning to get to the training location. The stress of facing unavoidable traffic situation can be overwhelming.
Well... I just have to make the best of every situation. There are some things that I can control and some that I can't. Working full time, I have control over income but not job commitments. I may be able to plan shorter outstation trips and plan training schedule but things can get hectic and I may end up not able to follow plan at all. Working on my own, I have no control over income and trainings conducted as it is based on demand. I'll agree to training request if I'm free because I'll never know if next time I have trainings to conduct. The consolation of working on my own is the personal satisfaction and the free time when there's no training.
That's life. We can't have our cake and eat it too. We work hard to make a living. I'm not sympathetic to those who sit around and hope for money to come down from the sky. That's another story. Anyway, I have one more training to do before end of the year. Then I can take a breather for a while.
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