State of my life right now
Feb. 13th, 2013 03:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterFunny how I so rarely write stuff here anymore. My LJ tends to reflect certain periods in my life when I don't have anything better to do than write here, and then I up and stop for a long time and all you get are my Twitter reports…and there aren't many of those because I don't use Twitter that much anymore either. I'm mostly on Facebook, it seems, for convenience's sake. This worries me just a little, sometimes, because there isn't really as easy a way to archive Facebook or browse my history there as there is LJ. If Facebook vanishes, that could be a large chunk of my life gone.
I'm still working at TeleTech, which has to be some kind of a record for how long I've held one job. There's a Social Media position open at my call center that I've applied for; the application period closes Thursday and I'm crossing my fingers that I get it. For all of that, the telephone support part really isn't that bad. I can't say whose brands I support, but the job involves helping people with a particular big box store's store brand electronics—mostly TVs and Blu-ray players, but some stuff from alternate lines too including cables, bluetooth adapters, even an Android tablet. Most of the calls are on the same sorts of issues: "My TV says please run channel auto scan, what do I do?" "Why doesn't my picture fill the screen?" Most of them are cake to solve, and I get the warm fuzzies of helping someone solve a problem they could never in a million years have fixed on their own. (And I've even helped one (minor) celebrity I used to see on TV in my childhood days! Neat stuff.)
I haven't written much for TeleRead lately since my abortive fling with The Digital Reader. I suppose I really ought to write more, it's just hard to get up the motivation. I haven't even kept up with my RSS feeds lately. But I'm going to have to see about finding motivation somewhere, as I'm about to start a job as a writer/editor for Answers.com. I'll be writing up to 30 articles a month, which is less than half what I had to do for TeleRead and even less than what I had to do for Digital Reader, and they're paying me a lot more than either. But the articles have to be real (albeit short) articles, not just blog posts that can be sloppy. I'm a little nervous.
This also means I'm going to have less free time to devote to the shared fiction universe I've been working on with a friend, in which we and a couple of others have written several novels' worth of material over the last few months. It's going to require some mental gear-shifting to get over from fiction to non-fiction mode.
Speaking of gear-shifting, lately I've been trying out a segmented sleep schedule, in which I sleep from 7-8 to around midnight, then 2-3 to 6:40 when I usually wake up. Spend the interim on the Internet, like I am now. It's actually worked surprisingly well in terms of getting a full night's worth of sleep. I seem a lot less likely to wake up then toss and turn for half the night when I allow time in my schedule to be awake between sleep cycles. Seem to have more vivid dreams too, which seems to suggest I'm getting a better night's rest. And it puts me in schedule sync with my writing partner, who lives in California and has an evening job. The only problem with it is that it gives me two opportunities to procrastinate going to bed every night instead of just one!
And speaking of my sleep schedule, it's about time for me to go back to bed again. Fingers crossed I get that social media position at work and move out of the phone part. Phone's okay, but a social media job would be my bread and butter, and would open so many doors to me in terms of other jobs!
I'm still working at TeleTech, which has to be some kind of a record for how long I've held one job. There's a Social Media position open at my call center that I've applied for; the application period closes Thursday and I'm crossing my fingers that I get it. For all of that, the telephone support part really isn't that bad. I can't say whose brands I support, but the job involves helping people with a particular big box store's store brand electronics—mostly TVs and Blu-ray players, but some stuff from alternate lines too including cables, bluetooth adapters, even an Android tablet. Most of the calls are on the same sorts of issues: "My TV says please run channel auto scan, what do I do?" "Why doesn't my picture fill the screen?" Most of them are cake to solve, and I get the warm fuzzies of helping someone solve a problem they could never in a million years have fixed on their own. (And I've even helped one (minor) celebrity I used to see on TV in my childhood days! Neat stuff.)
I haven't written much for TeleRead lately since my abortive fling with The Digital Reader. I suppose I really ought to write more, it's just hard to get up the motivation. I haven't even kept up with my RSS feeds lately. But I'm going to have to see about finding motivation somewhere, as I'm about to start a job as a writer/editor for Answers.com. I'll be writing up to 30 articles a month, which is less than half what I had to do for TeleRead and even less than what I had to do for Digital Reader, and they're paying me a lot more than either. But the articles have to be real (albeit short) articles, not just blog posts that can be sloppy. I'm a little nervous.
This also means I'm going to have less free time to devote to the shared fiction universe I've been working on with a friend, in which we and a couple of others have written several novels' worth of material over the last few months. It's going to require some mental gear-shifting to get over from fiction to non-fiction mode.
Speaking of gear-shifting, lately I've been trying out a segmented sleep schedule, in which I sleep from 7-8 to around midnight, then 2-3 to 6:40 when I usually wake up. Spend the interim on the Internet, like I am now. It's actually worked surprisingly well in terms of getting a full night's worth of sleep. I seem a lot less likely to wake up then toss and turn for half the night when I allow time in my schedule to be awake between sleep cycles. Seem to have more vivid dreams too, which seems to suggest I'm getting a better night's rest. And it puts me in schedule sync with my writing partner, who lives in California and has an evening job. The only problem with it is that it gives me two opportunities to procrastinate going to bed every night instead of just one!
And speaking of my sleep schedule, it's about time for me to go back to bed again. Fingers crossed I get that social media position at work and move out of the phone part. Phone's okay, but a social media job would be my bread and butter, and would open so many doors to me in terms of other jobs!
