Cautious Optimism
Posted By Rae on February 8, 2010
Oy, a lot has been going on behind the scenes since early January.
After interviews and intensive exams, I’ve just signed a one year, renewable, contract for a position that uses the skill that has been a common denominator in my varied jobs–analysis. A NDA prevents me from going into any more details than that. The pay rate and maximum hours I’m allowed to work per week, as well as the contract length, could make me overly excited, but I’ve done my research on this company, so I am only cautiously optimistic at this point. I won’t know till May, maybe even June, just how well this is going to work out, if at all. If it does, then one chapter of my RVing life has closed and everything will change once I leave Dawson in September.
My next step is to get some tax advice to find out if I could write off as a business expense the cost of finally setting myself up with internet since the work needs to be done online. Wouldn’t that be something. 
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Whatever it is, I wish you the best of success.
This could really be the job I’ve been waiting for. It’s something I’m going to enjoy and be good at. I found out they base the hourly wage on a certain number of ‘tasks’, let’s say 30 per hour. So I’d be paid the hourly page one time per 30 tasks. But I’m just starting and already doing twice the quota an hour, meaning that I could reach my weekly quota of hours in half the time, giving me time to do other things. Time will tell!
How exciting for you! I hope it works out to be everything you dreamed!
~gail
Thanks, Gail! I sure hope so too; I could really use a break.
[...] My contract requires me to do 10 hours per week to maximum of 20. Up until this week, there was never enough work to get the minimum 10 hours. This week, there has been. I have been getting up ‘early’ to do up to an hour and a half of contract work, going into the gas station for my eight and a quarter hour shift, and then coming home to do anywhere from an hour and a half to two and a half hours more work at the contract, depending on task availability. [...]
[...] a French translation. It was a small job that will pay for next week’s groceries. As for my ‘big’ contract, I haven’t been able to do nearly as many hours as I’d been given the impression [...]