Jobdirumah – Cara Selamat untuk Bekerja dari Rumah

Sekarang makin banyak orang nak cuba bekerja dari rumah secara online.

Tetapi mesti ramai yang agak teragak-agak untuk mencuba kerana banyak berita dan cerita dari orang ramai yang platform-platform ini kebanyakkannye scam dan menipu orang yang dah mendaftar. So sebab ini ramai yang langsung tak mahu cuba bekerja dari rumah secara online.

Saya sendiri pernah tertipu dengan salah satu platform bekerja dari rumah ni. Website untuk platform ni memang sangat professional and nampak boleh dipercayai. Sesetengah platform untuk bekerja dari rumah ni memang dari awal da boleh nampak macam tak boleh percaya. Tapi platform yang ini memang betul-betul nampak professional. Dan saya pun mendaftar untuk menjadi ahli kerana kalau tak mendaftar, saya tidak akan dibekalkan dengan “module perniagaan” untuk memulakan kerja online saya.

Lepas dah bayar yuran pendaftaran sebanyak RM50, saya pun terima “module perniagaan” tu. Tengok-tengok rupanya kene jadi agen jualan. Ada kene jual top up la, ada kene jadi affiliate agent untuk website yang betul-betul mengarut la and macam-macam lagi. Then bile saya try to contact the admin of the platform tu, langsung tak dapat dihubungi. In the end, abes macam tu saja duit saya.

So bile mak saya suruh saya check Jobdirumah.com saya da macam lali. Ni mesti menipu gak, kata saya.

Tapi sebab saya masa tu memerlukan duit extra so saya pun cuba-cuba la tengok website Jobdirumah.com ni. Biasa je, tak de apa-apa yang fancy pun. Then saya Google Jobdirumah.com sebab saya nak baca sebanyak yang mungkin mengenai Jobdirumah.com before saya try. Banyak blog posts and forum yang mengesahkan bahawa Jobdirumah.com BUKAN SCAM. Ramai yang share screenshot yang menunjukkan duit yang mereka dapat dari Jobdirumah.com.

Then saya pikir mungkin this time JDR ni selamat dan sah, bukan macam platform bekerja dari rumah yang pernah tipu saya dulu tu.

So saya pun daftar untuk menjadi ahli. Sama juga, yuran pendaftaran ialah RM50.

Lepas saya dah browse through senarai jobs yang ditawarkan, saya pun cubalah beberapa untuk tengok betul ke saya akan dapat duit. Tak sampai beberapa jam saya dah dapat USD 5 sebab saya dapat job untuk menulis dua artikel untuk seorang client ni.

Kemudian in the next few days saya pun cuba lebih banyak job lagi and Alhamdulillah, dalam masa seminggu, saya dapat USD 99 (lebih kurang RM297). And sekarang saya teruskan saja bekerja dengan Jobdirumah.com kerana saya yakin memang JDR tidak menipu.

Setiap job dibayar dengan rate yang berlainan, depending on the type of job. Kalau kerja tu mudah, rendah la sikit bayarannye tapi kalau lebih complex, then client sanggup untuk bayar jumlah yang tinggi. Contoh di bawah ni ialah bayaran dari satu client yang nak saya tuliskan 10 artikel untuk die. Total yang die bayar saya ialah USD 54 (lebih kurang RM150).

Bayaran masuk ke PayPal dan ditransfer ke Maybank

Jangan anggap kerja Jobdirumah.com ni cara untuk dapat duit secara mudah dan cepat kerana ini masih dianggap sebagai kerja seperti mana kalau kita kerja di office. So client akan expect kerja yang berkualiti tinggi and on time. Namun jobs die tidak la terlalu complex kerana kita dapat browse kerja yang sesuai dengan skills kita so that kita akan dapat deliver apa yang client nak dengan baik.

Cuma syarat-syarat basic untuk Jobdirumah.com ni:

• Basics dalam penggunaan computer and Internet. Kalau mahir in any software or programs lagi bagus kerana boleh dapat job yang lebih specific. Selalunye jobs yang lebih specific akan dibayar lebih tinggi
• Kemahiran membaca & menulis dalam English. Yang ni penting kerana kebanyakkan jobs dalam English and clients pun ramai dari overseas so kemahiran untuk berkomunikasi and menulis in English perlu ada
• Komputer peribadi atau laptop
• Internet connection yang laju. Clients sometimes akan hantar file-file yang besar untuk kita buat so kalau Internet ada masalah, ini akan mengganggu kerja kita. And sesiapa yang mahu join Jobdirumah.com digalakkan untuk sentiasa online or sekurang-kurangnye boleh online secara kerap kerana client akan hubungi kita bila-bila masa sahaja
• Boleh bekerja secara independent. Oleh kerana kerja secara online ni tidak ada pengawasan, kita perlu pandai manage time untuk siapkan kerja. Discipline yang tinggi adalah penting kerana sekiranye kita tidak dapat deliver kerja on time, client mungkin tidak akan bayar dan review kita akan menurun. Kalau review kita tidak elok susah untuk dapat job dari clients.
• 18 tahun ke atas

So saya syorkan Jobdirumah.com untuk sesiapa yang mahu try bekerja dari rumah. Dengan Jobdirumah.com yang ternyata sah and selamat, anda boleh mencari side income secara consistent and lumayan!

How You Like Me Now – No Make Up, No Filter Challenge

Okay, I’m not going to be too naive to say that I think the media has it wrong when they always show good looking people on their magazines, TV shows, advertisements, posters, banners, shopping carrier bags – basically almost anything that they use to promote their businesses.

Hey, like they always say, It’s nothing personal; it’s business.

Truth is, we all know that beauty sells, that sex sells. And that’s what every marketing people do – they showcase good looking people to sell their products better.

We are very visually-oriented. We see something nice, we like it. We see something pretty, we get attracted to it.

People who advocates that beauty is skin deep or that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder are sometimes deemed as “ugly” people. The “good looking” ones always accuse these “ugly” looking people because the “good looking” people know that the “ugly” people feel insecure because of the “good looking” people. People who do not use or do not emphasize on physical appearance as their personalities claimed those who pay so much attention to their looks are superficial and shallow.

As long as people get judged based on their outward appearances, the war will never end.

For the sake of this post, I will use the word “beautiful people” to personify the figures we see in the media and “normal people” to personify the rest of us.

When we see beautiful people on TV or in magazines, they allow us to forget about how we look. They bring us to that world where everything is perfect, a world that almost everyone of us wish to wake up.

Perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect teeth, long legs, flat stomach, immaculately manicured nails, chiseled jaw, you name it.

Now, we know we don’t look like this.

We know that we actually can; if we work out all the time, if we have that much extra cash to spend on so many cosmetics and haircare products, if we don’t have kids turning the house inside out every 30 seconds – we might just be able to look exactly like how these beautiful people look.

We also know that these beautiful people may not look like this all the time.

After the photo shoot, these models go back home, these actors go back home, wash off their make up, take a long shower, step out, and hey, whaddayaknow! Looking pretty much like the rest of us. Given the chance, they can pass by us on the streets without us giving them a second glance.

But of course we prefer not to think about this. We prefer to think that these beautiful people look like this all the time.

When it comes to us, we always try to look our best for other people.

Be it for a function, or posting a photo on Facebook, or choosing that new profile photo for our social networking sites – we always make sure we look good in them. We choose one that probably makes our crooked nose appear sharper by turning our face sideways, or we choose one that makes our faces look a little slimmer by taking the photo from creative angles.

Let us be frank to each other. I think most of us took at least 6 – 10 shots (to say the least for some of us!) of ourselves before we post one that makes us look best.

I mean, this is important stuff. There are people out there who’s going to see this. I can’t look bad, can I?

Can I?

We love it when we see photos of celebrities caught without their make up on their day out. We ogle every detail on their faces to find the same blemishes that we have, we scrutinize every angle to find the same imperfection that we have on our body and when we found one, we sit back and go, Hah, see! She got acne scars too.

If we love to see celebrities without their make up on and feel so much better to see them bared this way, why can’t we love ourselves the same way?

Why can’t we be more confident in the way we look everyday rather than focusing on perfecting what we find to be our imperfections?

Because we are human.

It’s human nature to be attracted to things that are pretty. It’s human nature to look good in front of others so to create a good impression. It’s human nature to parade in an ostentatious manner to attract attention.

And I am no different.

I always, always make sure I have great photos posted on my Facebook or twitter or etc. I want to make sure that when my friends go through my album they’ll think, Hey, she looks good. I select my profile photos carefully so they’ll always make me look slimmer, more radiant, more “celeb-like”, for lack of a better word.

But now, I dare to make a difference.

I dare to bare.

In my heart I know people shouldn’t be judged by how they look.

I have countless experiences where “beautiful people” aren’t always the prettiest. And the plainest girl around has the most gorgeous smile that lights up the whole room.

No Make Up, No Filter Challenge is my challenge to all women to embrace their natural looks, their everyday-at-home look, the look that they always try to hide.

By using a photo that depicts the way you look when no one is around as your profile photo, you help to spread the awareness that it’s okay for people to look at you the way you look everyday. By using a photo that is not edited as your profile photo, you challenge yourself to be confident with your flaws.

Natural beauty is a gift. Embrace it, don’t fake it. Because to be confident in feeling ugly is the best way to be beautiful.

Challenge accepted.

What about you?

One of my good friends who’s brave enough to take me up on the challenge.
I think she looks gorgeous sans make up, don’t you think?

One word at a time

Reblogged from Cristian Mihai:

When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’ -- Stephen King

Sometimes I catch a glimpse of the future. Whether is just a scene from a chapter I have yet to write, or the ending line, or just a few lines of dialogue. That's magic. That's power. I know something that no one else knows, and it's entirely up to me to bring it to life.

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I always feel this way. Always.

Working From Home

I wonder how many of you have tried to join the platform that offers you handsome rewards just by working from home (or wherever you take your laptop with you, for that matter). And I wonder how many of you have been conned by the platform that offers you handsome rewards.

The deceptive idea of wanting to earn money without having to do much work is the very sentiment that these scam platforms prey on.

To be honest, I was one of them before.

Having skills but no outlet to put it to use, being stuck at home day in day out without something different to do other than housework and being overeager in signing up to something that seems credible enough.

Suffice to say that soon after I paid for my registration fee, I heard nothing from the platform administrators and received no reply to my countless emails asking for more information on how to start working on the projects they promised me. After a week, I got the idea that I was conned.

This was almost two years ago.

After what happened to me, I didn’t even bother reading or finding out about other “seemingly credible” work-from-home platforms. For me, they all have the same scripted advertisement and promise the same thing. “Pay $50 for registration fee but you will get $5000 per week. Join now or be sorry that you miss out on this opportunity,” are just one of the many things they say.

Then I chance upon Cristian Mihai’s blog.

He is an awesome writer and I look up to him as a blogger because I’ve always had this romantic idea where my blogs are followed by thousands of people, I have bustling activities going on in my blog and I can write something everyday. He wrote a post about how to be a good blogger and make the best of your blog in Rules, rules, rules. From his blog too I learnt that there are several trusted platforms that pay you to write articles for them.

Trusting him to know what he’s talking about, here are the few that I’ve signed up to and yes, this time around, I wasn’t conned.

• Helium – This platform is open to everyone around the world (some of the platforms only allow US citizens to sign up). There is no registration fee. To write an article for them, you simply need to choose a category you like best or know most about and select a job. Some articles are $1 and some cost more. If Helium purchased your article, then they will credit the money to your Helium account. If they didn’t purchase it, they will still feature your article under that category. You can cash out your earnings after you reach $25 or more
• Elance – I have just started with Elance for about a week but I have received several jobs and received the payment. Elance uses bidding system, where you need to bid for a job with other freelancers. If a client chooses your proposal, then you are awarded the job and will receive the payment after you deliver. For this, you will need English writing skills as most of the jobs require you to write reviews or academic papers for them.  After you have received your payment, you can transfer your earnings into your PayPal account for withdrawal. This is also open to everyone.
• JobDiRumah – This is for Malaysian citizens only. The concept is the same as Elance’s.

These are just a few that I share because there are more on Cristian Mihai’s post. I’m trying to search for the post but at the moment I can’t seem to find it because he does have a lot of posts written and I can’t really remember the exact keyword for me to look up that post. However, once I’ve got it (and I remember that he wrote about platforms that are only open for US citizens), I will post it here so you can read more on other work-from-home platforms that are trusted.

If you are still dubious about this, here’s a photo of what I received from Elance 2 days after I joined.

You should at least check them out. Who knows you can really after all earn while working from home (or wherever you take your laptop with you, for that matter!)

Starry Night

I went out for a short walk tonight after getting some groceries because the night was so beautiful.

I was walking home when I looked up to the sky and saw a starry night with a crescent moon. The sky was so clear and the lights of the stars were so sharp they looked almost surreal.

Then I remembered the times when Mohen and I used to work together in the same office. And after our dinner, we would hang outside the building for a smoke. I would always look up to the sky while he sat beside me and talked and I listened to his voice. And sometimes the sky looked exactly the way it did tonight.

I realized how much I miss spending time Mohen doing the simplest things together.

Just the two of us.

Just Us

We will be 5 years together this May. Or at least 5 years in a full committed relationship.

I think I knew Mohen close to 7 years now. Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s 7 years. It’s amazing how things turned out for the both of us.

Our first photo together during our office annual dinner.
We weren’t even each other’s date that night but somehow we ended up hanging out with each other a lot that night!

When we met, we never thought we would be where we are right now; in a relationship serious enough to have 3 kids out of. Although there were several pretty rough patch that we went through, I would say that I’m having an amazing time with him.

I met Mohen when I wasn’t looking for anything serious. In fact I wasn’t looking for anything at all. We just happened to meet at the smoking area of our previous office and, well, as cliche as this may sound, there rest is just history.

People always say familiarity breeds contempt.

I don’t really know what that means. I mean, I know what it means. But I don’t think I really know what it implies. I suppose when you’re too familiar with a person and you’ve let your guards down or, in the words of Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting – we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds. His imperfections are just apart of him that I accepted and my eccentricities are probably part of my charm.

We’ve sort of drifted apart these few weeks. Nothing serious but we both know it’s because we have another baby and that keeps me busy and occupied a large part of my time and he’s as always occupied with work. We still talk and laugh and poke fun at each other but we can tell it’s a little different from what we usually have.

It’s not hard being young parents with small kids. There’s just so much that we need to learn and get used to that sometimes we feel as though we have nothing in common anymore. The parenting duties in our household sometimes seems to be so distinctly divided – him working and me doing pretty much everything else at home. Mohen does help around a lot during weekends and even though that eases my job a little as a mom, I would like to have more time with him the way I used to.

We used to go out a lot before we are seriously attached.

I believe in date nights and thank God, so does Mohen.

We’re overdue for our date night for months now. To be honest, I can’t even remember the last time we went out just the two of us. That’s how long ago it was!

I know we’re so in love and are still crazy about each other. I just hope things get settled pretty soon because I can’t wait to go dancing with him again.

Wait, I Didn’t Sign Up For This

I’ve been so tied up with so many things like you wouldn’t believe.

Okay, perhaps that was stretching the truth a little. Or perhaps not.

But what I know is one thing and it is this – There was more than once where I thought I didn’t sign up for this to have gone through this every.single.day.

I know that nobody really sign up for parenthood, unless the ones who really want to be parents and have kids. I’m not saying that I regret having kids because they literally are the best thing that happened to me. But for someone who never really wanted to be in a relationship let alone a serious one with kids at that, I sometimes feel like I’m not cut out for it.

Maybe it’s just my preconceived notion of me being a bad mother, or maybe it’s just me looking for an easy way out to explain my incompetence as a parent.

Eros with Damien

What I know is also, I feel suffocated almost all the time. It’s been 3 months since we’re home and everything sometimes run smooth but most of the time they don’t. Mohen kept telling me that it doesn’t last forever and I know he’s right. And for the millionth time he kept assuring me that I’m doing a great job otherwise our kids will be sick or starving or anything worse than that.

But I constantly feel that I need to do more. That I need to be better.

I wake up every morning with the determination not to scold or yell or lose my temper but 3 hours into the job, already I’m screaming at something.

Damien Emil Mohen

Damien is very attached to me.

He will comfort nurse most of the time. And if I were to unlatch him before he’s done, he’ll throw a tantrum and almost as though he resets his clock back to 00:00 and I’m stuck to nursing him for another 2 hours. All the while I’m nursing him, I kept running in my mind the list of things that I could’ve done if he wasn’t nursing this long.

Because of this also, Eros and Sophia are taking the brunt of my resentment.

I felt like I’ve paid less attention to them now. I feel that I kept scolding them for being kids because I have no control over the house anymore. Everything is in a mess and nothing gets done. By the time everyone is really sleeping for the day, it’d be midnight and when I’m done with all the housework, it’s almost 2am. And then Damien wakes up again for nursing. I’m fine with him waking up at 3am onward because I get to sleep while breastfeeding him. But I knew that if he hadn’t nursed so much in the afternoon, I could’ve gone to bed much earlier.

I do not resent breastfeeding. I’m loving it because now it has come easy and naturally, unlike our first 3 weeks after Damien was born. But I just really wish that he would give up comfort nursing. I tried giving him a dummy but he hates it. He would prefer me as a binky to fall asleep. I mean, I know I’m his mother but sometimes I wish he wouldn’t use me as a pacifier as much.

And I feel crappy for feeling such way.

I mean, I am his mother, for God’s sake right? I need to be there for him at all times, I need to love and care for him the way he needs me, I need to attend to his every need until he is old enough to be more independent than he is now.

But I also need to look after Eros and Sophia who needs more attention and understand more about hurt and feeling deserted. And right now, I literally feel I am hurting and deserting them.

The only thing that kept me going is the thought and hope one day Damien will outgrow his attachment once he can roll over or sit up or crawl because he will have more things to explore than just being with me.

In the meantime, I would have to really learn to be a better parent and not be spiteful toward myself.

Because when I’m spiteful and resenting how I am handling the situation when I know I can and should do better, I lash it out on my kids.

And they deserve so much more than that.

With Sophia

Because I am their mother. And I did sign up for this when I decided to have them.