The first week of remote

Wow, so the first week of working in the house has gone by quite quickly!

I started it off with doing a vlog series. I thought it would be fun to document my adventure of working virtual and my job search for a long-term virtual position. Can I quickly mention that I have learned a shitton of stuff since day one?? Yup.

Monday was more of a day to ease into things after having my client call. Then on Tuesday, I was supposed to have a call with another client, but we needed to reschedule for the day after. I didn't have any tasks on Tuesday so that day was more of a day to vlog about my experience and to job search. Throughout the week I learned that I was looking at the wrong work from home jobs... I kept looking at opportunities that were good for a side income, not necessarily a full or part-time income.

What I need right now is a FT/PT position and so my search changed after that. Of course, I was researching these jobs before, but I wanted to make sure I learned a bit more about the overall scope of virtual work. Also, I only worked like 6 hours or less at my virtual position so far... but I did manage to throw in that I'm interested in doing other kinds of work for the actual virtual company!

I found a few positions that I'm interested in. I applied to some, and there's a few that I've saved as a "maybe". I want to make sure I find the right fit for me.

I was also having office withdrawals. It was really hard. Working from home is sooo nice, but at the same time I have withdrawals because an office provides a routine, which seems more productive... but the thing is, I'm actually quite productive at home too, and so I want to make this work.

However, I did find a few office positions that look really interesting. I think I might apply to some of them as well (some are part-time, so I could do that0. At the same time of having a job, I still also want to have some time to work on my blog and other channels.

Speaking of other channels, I actually filmed TWO videos this weekend! *pats self on back* - I'm super proud of this milestone. Now I have some content I can use and I just need to edit these sometime this week. I haven't written any blog posts at all though, so I'll have to do at least one this week... I've already broken that resolution, rofl! But it's ok, I'm realizing this now and not later and I'll do something about it.

The plan for this week is:

- Work on my virtual stuff
- Apply for jobs
- Write at least one blog post
- Edit my two videos
- Get my Adwords (I need to complete this like this week!)
- Codeacademy lessons (oops, too focused on my search and forgot about this)

Weekend recap:

Friday - We had dinner with my family and played with Tofu and just chilled. Watched Dirk Gentley.

Saturday - We walked to Starbucks as it was SUPER nice out. (Yay, it wasn't cold!) Got some more coffee and then watched P to JK. I also filmed a video before. My friends came over to play boardgames and we played Machi Koro & The Coup. My friend also brought over her Japan Crate with her rejected snacks for us to keep. :)

Sunday - Went to Gyu-Kaku with friends who went on the Fernie trip with us and some other friends. as well. I had a bibimbap bowl as I wasn't feeling too well and didn't think it'd be a good idea to eat bbq. Still felt gross afterwards, but I filmed a video and then did some job searching and also played Block Puzzle.

I'm going to go work on my bujo for the week now. Oh and another thing I should do this week is really clean my desk/office so that it's a good place for working...

Good news today is that I also found out I got paid from my last job. So yay, that was nice!