I recently closed a contract for P20,000 (about US$400) with the Tungkong Mangga Barangay Water Service System - our local tap water provider. Actually, they’ve been asking me to develop it for more than a year already but they seem to be quite hesitant about the $400 price tag. You might be amazed but that’s a huge amount of money to spend for a local water service system.
Anyways, after about a year, they finally came to decision to acquire my services in developing a billing system for their company. I am now in the process of programming said billing system and all seems fine so far. I will be visiting them tomorrow for a demonstration of the initial prototype that I just made for them. I hope they’ll like it.
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If you’ve been following my blog lately then you might have noticed that I’ve been planning to setup my ‘real home office‘. Special thanks to my friend Boyet for his inputs. As we drew our plans for my home office setup, I thought of the idea of having a relaxing spot in it where I can sit down comfortably and take power naps. The first thing that came to mind was a sofa but it’s too big for the small space that I have. Then I realized, what about recliners. They’re comfy, relaxing and will definitely fit in my room.
So again I went back to the site where I found a good office chair and tried to see if they have recliners. Guess what? They do. Their recliners even come in a wide variety of colors and shapes. Now, my problem is which of the recliners they are offering will I purchase. 
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Yesterday, my 7-year-old daughter asked me, “Dad, why didn’t you go to college?” I knew I had to answer carefully so as not to make her think that college is useless. Better yet, I do not want to upset my wife who, being a college graduate herself, gives high importance to finishing college. While I was still thinking for an answer, my daughter asked another question, “Don’t you want to be a doctor?”
I knew I had to answer so I simply said, “Because being a doctor won’t make me rich.”
At this point, my wife asked me, “And how do you plan to get rich?” to which I replied, “by doing the things that I need to do.”
Then again, my daughter asked, “but why didn’t you go to college?” and so I told my daughter the story.
Truth is, I never wanted school. :D Though I’m always among the top of the class to the point where the first honor asks me for help, I never really had any interest in school. I find it boring and slow. I am a dreamer and I always wanted to fulfil my dreams and I find school to be slow in helping me fulfil my dreams. No offense to the school system which I find to be good in general. It’s just that I don’t fit in it. But that didn’t stop me from reaching for my dreams. I experimented with things, tried a lot of options, and went through a lot of failures but I would say that I’ve learned a lot more outside of school than what my classmates were learning inside those classrooms.
At the end, I encouraged my daughter to go to school. After all it is so far the best place other than home for her to hone her skills.
After discussing with a friend the stuff I need to setup an office, we came to the point where we have to choose the right chair. We searched the net and found this bunch of office chairs from amazon. However we decided to search for more and came at something that is worth looking at.
The chair that I’m talking about is pretty unique being the only mesh chair in the world constructed of solid metal components. I find it to be pretty sleek and sturdy since it’s constructed of metal. To me sturdiness is important since I move a lot when seated and those ‘cheap’ office chair just won’t do. The price is great as well and the chair is worth every buck spent. Two more things worth mentioning are that it comes with free shipping and a 60-day money-back guarantee so you really have nothing to worry about. I found this New Mesh Office Chair at BizChair.com. I think you should take a good look at it and at it to your A-List of things to buy.
Here’s a list of its features:
- The only mesh chair in the world constructed of solid metal components
- The Best Mesh Chair Value on Bizchair!
- Silvervein finished steel frame with black mesh
- Unique breathable and expandable mesh material
- Mesh Elastic fabric seat and back
- Contoured mesh lumbar support
- 2:1 synchro tilt control
- Unique pivoting arms
- Totally unique control mechanism providing locking capabilities and dual controls
- Pneumatic seat height adjustment
- Continual comfort
- The best value for a quality mesh chair in the industry
- Heavy duty metal base with dual wheel carpet casters
What more can you ask for?
Making money is just about everybody’s dream. In our present world, almost every transaction involves money and without money it will be almost impossible to survive unless of course you live in the mountains. Funny thing is that even people living in the most remote places of the earth already use money and they know and make use of its value. In other words, we all need money. I need money and most probably you need money too.
But making money is really easy. The problem with making money is that once you’ve spent it, you go back to your work and make more money to sustain your chosen lifestyle. The better thing to do is to make money work for you. But how? It’s tough, I have to be honest with you about that but unless you learn how to make money work for you, you will end up toiling the ground for the rest of your life - but you don’t have to.
The advantage of making money work for you is that money becomes your employee. It serves you and the best part is that you don’t have to pay it anything. It won’t put up labor unions. It won’t get tired, it won’t sleep, it won’t be hungry, and YES, it won’t bite your back. But how do you this? Personally, I see three ways of doing this.
- Be a Businessman - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business.
- Be an Entrepreneur - A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
- Be an Investor - someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns.
You can be just one of the above or you can be all three but remember not to rush things. I’ve had my share of rushing things and believe me, it didn’t work out. It takes time, studying, learning, and failures to attain the goal of making money work for you. One thing is for sure, if your ambition is to be an employee until the day you retire then won’t be able to make money work for you until you change your goal. Use employment as a stepping stone to reach your goal of financial freedom.
Cheers!
I work mainly at home accepting website development jobs from various clients and also from friends who outsource some of their projects to me. I have a Dell C600 Latitude laptop which I bought second-hand but serves me well. It’s right hinge is already broken but I can live with that until I earn the needed extra money to buy my new laptop. Since I work at home and my laptop allows me to work anywhere I want, I basically where from anywhere in the house that I want. Sometimes even outside the house to as far as my wifi connection can handle (which is not really that far anyway).
One day, a friend came to my house and asked, “Where is your office?” I couldn’t speak for a moment there then with all confidence, I answered, “Anywhere in the house.” He laughed and talked me into having my own office, or business centre as he calls it, at home. Basically, his idea was to reserve a space in my house where I will officially work. Eventually, we discussed the matters of office furniture such as tables, chairs, airconditioning, phones, etc.
Honestly, I love the idea of having an office in the house. I mean a ‘real’ office in the house. That way, I can clearly separate office matters from house matters and my wife would be a lot happier. Though I admit that it will cost me some money to setup my office, I still think that it’s a good investment so in the end, I’m not really losing anything. I guess sooner or later I will contact the local carpenter to start building my office. Do I really need an office? The answer is “YES, I do need an office.” It makes perfect sense anyway.
