HIRE ME!!
- Thread starter Kayle Buttler
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If I didn't already have a VA/support staff, I'd be giving this guy a shot for sure. After going through three different people to date - I agree that local, English speaking skilled people are hard to find and when you do - overpay them and make them loyal because you don't know how far they will take your business for you vs how much babysitting you do cleaning up after them if you go cheap or outsource your keys to your business to questionable people.
My current person is well payed, and absolutely opens up my time (with confidence) to work on other projects or take time to myself knowing my ship isn't going to sink. In fact if I'm not on Skype twice a day to get her "All done, youtube done, emails done, xyz tasks done..." she worries and texts me to make sure I'm alright - she cares more about the business and my well being than I do. She's older, has damage control down pat, is responsible, and takes a lot away from working with me so she can realize her dream in tandem or get inspired on top of being payed = win/win.
Good luck OP, and +1 wickedfire for turning a new leaf.
My current person is well payed, and absolutely opens up my time (with confidence) to work on other projects or take time to myself knowing my ship isn't going to sink. In fact if I'm not on Skype twice a day to get her "All done, youtube done, emails done, xyz tasks done..." she worries and texts me to make sure I'm alright - she cares more about the business and my well being than I do. She's older, has damage control down pat, is responsible, and takes a lot away from working with me so she can realize her dream in tandem or get inspired on top of being payed = win/win.
Good luck OP, and +1 wickedfire for turning a new leaf.
It's got nothing to do with him being a jew, it's just optimizing a revenue stream. I'd do the exact same thing and I hate religion.
P.S. Starting a 'Hire Me' section is a fantastic idea.
Well, fuck you OP. I told him to shoot me a PM if he wanted some work, and he didn't get back to me. If he was professional and really cared about creating connections/relationships, he would've sent me a message saying:
"That gay thread that I created gave me tons of work sucking black cock in front of the camera which gets displayed across web cams all over the internet, and now I don't have time to be your slave as I'm already someone else's. Should this ever change in the future, I'll reach back out to you and offer to lick your ass for throwing you on the back burner. Thanks and have a nice day."
"That gay thread that I created gave me tons of work sucking black cock in front of the camera which gets displayed across web cams all over the internet, and now I don't have time to be your slave as I'm already someone else's. Should this ever change in the future, I'll reach back out to you and offer to lick your ass for throwing you on the back burner. Thanks and have a nice day."
I gave the OP a little job to see what would happen. My conclusion is that he is either not desperate, or was so successful in finding work that he doesn't need my piddling job (I guess that is redundant). I encourage all unemplyed people to post a similar thread because appearantly it is a great way to find work.
TBH the job I gave him was crap, but I wanted to see how he would handle it. He put in minimum effort and quit. No negotiation, no feedback that would have created a working relationship.
TBH the job I gave him was crap, but I wanted to see how he would handle it. He put in minimum effort and quit. No negotiation, no feedback that would have created a working relationship.
It doesn't matter how crappy the job is. If you don't want to do the job, then don't accept the job. Simple.
So is the hidden lesson here people who are broke usually deserve to be broke (there's a reason they're in that predicament)? Man did this thread take a 180.
I don't like arguing and this is not an attempt at arguing, but since your... let's say review of my work capabilities/ethics can affect my relationship with other people, I think I'm entitled to an answer. In it, I will disclose what the job was. I doubt it's a problem, hope I'm not wrong.
Your job was testing your new blog commenting platform. The pay was $1/comment per approved comment and you gave me the maximum of 30 comments to see if you can bring it to a market version.
So far this is telling me that you using me to test things out. I believe this entitles to me test the work out and see if it goes out well and if I can make money. Because, we are best friend and all, but I need money, so will leave the pro bono work on your comment blogging for later.
Now, of coruse, I decided to give it a shot, because it seems like a rather good opportunity. If I'm able to comment a lot and you get a lot orders I could rake some bucks.
After giving it a shot for one hour, I was able to make whooping 5 comments, because:
Your platfrom was buggy and slow.
Your platform gives 95% pages that don't fit your own criteria.
And most importantly:
Your platform gave me pages to comment, which were in very narrow niches, where the people who are reading and commenting are incredibly sophisticated and "deep" into what they are talking about.
Let me give an example: The promoted website is something about tornados. The comment page is about the canadian goverment cutting budget from global warming research and allocating it to better the weather forecasts.
SAYWAT? I can assure you, most of the people commenting under that article had an education in environmental sciences. OR you want me to tell you about the one where people were discussing India's macro economics?
Sorry, but no matter how educated and smart you are, you can't form an opinion(that will get published) just from skimming the article.
How long do you think it takes me to figure out a comment that looks "natural", so the webmaster approves it? Because, you know, I get paid on approved comments.
Please, see this from my perspective. You give me a shitty job, in bad working conditions, without any set wage, performing a service, which you are not certain that you will need tomorrow, and on top of that requires a lot of thought process. And then you ask why I'm not jumping from happiness?
PS: It wasn't a job. It was a test. If he can test me, I have the right to test the job and see if I can do it(and be worth my pitiful while).
For the record, I've turned down only 2 jobs. One was this and the other was comission based affiliate manager for (IMO) small niche market. Apart from that, I took a job, and I told the employer I can't do it today, but tomorrow and he stopped communication. Dunno what was with that. Maybe he got other stuff to do.
Buddy, I can't PM. I said so in the original post. This was why I left an email in it.
Cute.
"Hi Alex! I tried your platform for about an hour and unfortunately I have to refuse your offer. For about an hour, I was able to find 6 sites suitrable for comments and could figure out a decent comment on only 4 of them. Now, even if I assume all of them to be approved that does not correspond to an hourly rate that is decent.
Thank you for the opportunity very much! It is really appriciated, even though it didn't work out.
If you allow me to give you an advice on how to make it better - IMO you should make the logic skip any future pages from a site that has been marked as "skip this page for now". If there isn't a "a website field" on a particular page, chances are there won't be one on all of the pages on that site.
Thank you again and good luck with the project!"
Work log.
<site1> 5:25:22 Skip
<site2> 5:29:41 Submit
<site3> 5:34:56 Submit
<site4> 5:39:36 Submit
<site5> 5:46:31 Submit
5 sites, 4 submissions, 0 approvals, 5:25 to 5:46, about an hour? Even being generous with some time on the end, that doesn't really add up does it?
And the subject is weather.
To be honest that sounds like a pretty reasonable trial task. You made $5/hr, but in your first hour. Efficiency gains would at least double that shortly, and after a brief time any decent employer would see the issues and modify the payment setup accordingly.
For the type of roles you're looking for, employers are looking for someone with ambition, problem solving skills, and won't give up at the first sign of trouble, as people looking for a short term throwaway VA will just hire one for cheap.
While that job may not have been great by any means, you giving up and complaining about it after a single hour reflects very poorly upon you in my opinion.
What you should have done was kept plugging away on that shitty task, along with others, given them all at least a few days to progress and at least allow the employers to review and make their own modifications, before picking 1 or 2 to work for long term.
Your post shows you lack patience, feel some work is 'below' you, and like to air your grievances publicly. Not what I look for in an employee, doubt it a what others are either.
Buddy, if you can't PM you could have at least replied to my original post. I didn't ready the whole thread, I'm busy and don't have time to ready your whole sob story or all the other idiot posts made in this thread.
Bottom line -- unlike many of the guys here, I could have ACTUALLY kept you busy with steady work and steady one time payments...but you missed that chance, so I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
Bottom line -- unlike many of the guys here, I could have ACTUALLY kept you busy with steady work and steady one time payments...but you missed that chance, so I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
I'm afraid you misunderstand what I'm trying to say. I don't think there's an opportunity at all. Those were 5 comments, of which maybe none will go through review. And then you have to add the insecurity of whether I commit more time to this, the employer cannot give me work, because he's testing it.
No job is bellow me. For example, I sorted images into categories, which I think is exactly a robot job, opposed to commenting under articles. It was the bad working conditions with no upside that got me to refuse the offer.
I have an offer for set-in stone $x/h and on the other hand I get this. Well...
