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How to Do Work and School at The Same Time?

2014-03-14T21:51:00.001-07:00

If you are a working mom and at the same time a student, nothing is impossible for you to do.

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First is that you need to work in order for you to provide the financial needs of your family. Technically, it is now the common role of women nowadays. We’re no longer living in the past wherein woman should only focus to their family. Although you have a partner whom will help you for that instance, depending alone to his income is not enough. There are plenty of expenses to consider. Aside from the food and other needs of the kids and the family, stuff such as the rent for the house, the bills, and etc. should also be prioritized as well. With that, it is really important to find work nowadays may a person is a woman or a man especially if the income of your other half is not enough.

Studying in other hand is also a burden to expenses. It may be a solution to a better future but if you have family whom you are providing all the needs, it is really stressful to budget one’s expenses. That also makes studying and at the same time working and being a mom very hard to do. But for women of today’s generation (though it had existed before), nothing is now impossible to happen.

Doing different things at the same time is really hard especially if the kids are too young to leave behind. With that, it is really essential to have presence of mind and meticulous to time. In this way, it is possible for one to different tasks at a time. And that’s how powerful moms can be!

The Benefits of Freelancing Online

2014-03-10T20:36:00.002-07:00

Freelancing online has given a lot of opportunities for those who are less fortunate to earn education. This simply because most of clients who look for contractors or freelancers to help them grow their companies or businesses do not really require qualified ones to have good education background; rather, the important thing must a freelancer has are the skills and capability to work the tasks given to him or her. With that, a lot of people now prefer to work online.

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There are plenty of benefits freelancing online has to offer aside from the education that doesn’t matter at all. And the following are the reasons why people particularly those who find it hard to look for job in their country prefer to work as a freelancer online:

1. Nature of work

- Freelancing online has varieties of work opportunities to offer. One must not really necessary know how to encode and do the html thing for him or her to earn online. Instead, the basic knowledge alone on how to use computer is already enough. Varieties of work opportunities include managing of facebook page (and yes, just facebooking, one can earn out from it), data entry (the filing thing using MS word, excel, and such), web researching (google thing and so on), and so much more! Thus, why wouldn’t one do freelancing instead, right?

2. The earnings

- If you’re looking for satisfying earning, freelancing online is definitely the best industry to have. Technically, this is because clients that give such opportunities are from different countries (e.g. USA, Australia, Canada, and Germany) which at the same time, offer similar rate to what their country is offering to their contractors. With that, a lot of people are engage to work in this field to compare to work in local jobs available.

3. Time

- Not all freelancers have fixed schedule to work. Some have their own time. Most of these are those who are transcribers, data encoders, article writers, and such. Yet, these ones have their work deadlines. But nonetheless, if to compare to other works available in local, definitely freelancing is the best source of job and earning opportunities indeed.

4. Work anywhere.

- The convenience of freelancing online is that you can work anywhere. Of course, who else wouldn’t want it?!

5. Be a contractor of more than one company

- Yes, you read it right! You can be a contractor on up to how many companies you’d like to work with. As long as you know how to manage your time and the nature of your work.

There are actually a lot of reasons as to why a freelancer wants to work online instead of hunting for job locally. And the 5 reasons mentioned are just some of the reasons as to why freelancers yesterday are still freelancers today.

Effective Application Letter

2013-12-06T16:19:00.001-08:00

Applying for work is definitely one of the things that is difficult to do. It doesn’t just frustrate you in winning the position you’re applying for but also gives you stress in making the requirements needed too. With that, reading some tips and advices in terms of finding the best way to win the job you’re going to apply for is the best thing to do.

Resumes and application letters are some of the important things that are needed to apply for work. But it doesn’t just end in there. There are other sorts of stuff to consider as well and one of it is creating an effective application letter. Of course, one must know exactly what to and not to write. Knowing how to write it is really a big advantage, indeed. To get a higher chance of winning the job, one must know the key factors of making an effective application or cover letter.

In creating it, it is really important to check first if what job you are going to apply for. That also includes the reading and understanding the description of it. This is to give you ideas on what to put in your letter. To come up with an effective application letter, one must know what the important things are to take note. And the following are just some of the key factors that may help you in creating your effective application letter:

KISS! Keep It Short and Simple. As much as possible, don’t exaggerate it. Make it simple. A lot of employers/clients do not have time reading too long letters. With that, always keep in mind that too long is not healthy. The simple, the better as per they say.
Only put the necessary information. Putting too much information makes your letter boring. To avoid of making it, make sure to stick only to the details that is important to place in your letter.
Make it interesting. Every client is looking for an attractive and good personality contractor. And most of them find it at reading at the applicants’ application letters. With that, one should highlight into his or her letter the things that can make client get interest with them.
Impress the client. Apart from interesting facts about you, also include in your letter the things that can make them impress. Put information that would encourage the client to give you an interview. It is somehow like exaggerated stuff but those can be done by person possibly. Unlike plain exaggerated stuff, clients will definitely ignore it.
Address the letter accordingly. It is really important to come up with complete details on to whom you are going to send the letter to. This is to let the clients know that you are really interested to work with them; thus, you make an effort of squeezing the details of the receiver of the letter.
Avoid generic content. Always make a unique content application letter. If you really want to get succeed of winning the job you are going to apply for, creating new contents for every application letter you make is what you should do.

Winning a job position is not that easy but somehow it can be manageable only if you know what the best things to do. And applying the key factors mentioned above are a good examples to give a try. After all, it won’t harm you.

The Life of a Working Student-Mom

2013-09-12T12:23:00.003-07:00

Who says that when you become a mom, it is impossible to do things together at a time? Let’s cut this kind of thinking. These days, multi-tasking is a mainstream practice. In fact, a lot of people do it especially those breadwinners.

As a mom, taking care of my kids is my number one priority. But of course, providing them their other needs is also what I am concern of. Depending alone to my partner’s income is not enough especially now that I am studying. Apparently, it is because his earning is only good enough for our basic needs. Thus, in order for me to provide them the other things they need, I have to find ways on how to earn. Eventually, with the help of work opportunities available online, I get a chance to earn an income that helped me in my studies, provide my kids’ their other needs and at the same time help me and my partner about our financial needs. And I am thankful that with the rapid evolvement of technology, those who get to earn online like me indeed help us a lot.

Meanwhile, being a working student-mom is not that easy. There are times that I forget to do my errands at home and some paper works in school due to my work online. But that is not a reason for me to stop in pursuing my studies. Even though it is hard, I have to strive for the best since it is for my kids’ future. I am trying my best to do the best time management I could ever do in order for me to balance everything. And giving up facebook will be part of the list, I guess. But nonetheless, fun will still be there though.

In this blog, I’ll be sharing to you my journey as how I manage and make it possible to do different things at a time without risking my role as a mom to my kids. Part of the topics to be shared in this blog is about being a Student, a Freelancer, and a Mom together at the same time.

If you want to go through the journey with me, I’d be happy to be with you too! Follow me via email for more updates.