This blog post is to simply guide my junior blogger friends who jumped into blogging out of enthusiasm but are now striving to keep their blog alive. What is the secret to keep a blog alive? Traffic! Yep, that’s right. A blog without traffic and inactivity is like a graveyard. Building up a blog is like building a … Read more
Couple of times this week, I was knocked down by my computer with a dark blue screen (called “blue screen of death or BDoS”) citing low memory. The computer runs on Windows XP and was bought in 2005. The whole hard disk capacity is 150 GB and has been partitioned into 4 drives with a 20 GB … Read more
The overwhelming reaction from work-at-home moms who registered their antagonist views when I opined that a work-at-home lifestyle makes you lazy and the unilateral opinion spread across the web favoring a work-at-home lifestyle further warrants to list out the disadvantages of working from home to substantiate my stance; hence I’m listing here the top ten … Read more
In the good old days when I moved from working at an office to working from home, I found it difficult to make people around me, my relatives, neighbors, and friends from other industries, believe that I work from home. All of them were skeptic about my intentions! Time flew by so quickly and the … Read more
Quite sometime ago, we discussed the possibility of leveraging our social media activities in finding a job, Twitter in particular. I just thought “Hey, why not try that idea for myself now?” I am seriously on lookout for another employer as my current employer is in troubled times though I am very much reluctant parting … Read more
As you might know, I am a work-at-home transcriptionist for the past eight long years, and all these years life was going okay though not rewarding. However, times change and so do people and situations! “Raj, you are going to have your pay rate cut by half because of the cuts in insurance reimbursements” informed … Read more