So.... now what?

Ok, so....the fire is lit but now what?

To start, I tinkered into looking for a work from home job. Something I could do at night when my family goes to sleep. I like to type and sometimes, I'm good at finding typos/grammatical errors so proofreading or transcribing sounded pretty intriguing. LOL - sounded fun in all the Pinterest posts on "Work from home" jobs but it was far from fun.

First job site that I tried was for a proofreading work-at-home job. I signed up, took the test and as soon as I submitted the test, I got an email saying, thank you for trying but they only hire about 1 in 300 who pass the test. Oh boy! NEXT! If you want the challenge, apply at Proofreadingservices.com.

I tried a transcription work-at-home site, Go Transcript (https://gotranscript.com/) and got through a multiple choice test and then a "transcribing" test where you transcribe a short audio. A 2-minute audio took me about 1 hour to transcribe. It was a lot of rewinding and fast forwarding. Also, some googling because I couldn't understand the accent of the lady on the recording. Oh boy. The typing was fun but it was super hard. Long story short, I didn't pass the transcribing test and didn't get a position. But it was an experience that I'm glad I tried. If you want to take a stab, you should try for the experience. Let me know if you get offered a position. LOL!

I applied at one more site, Transcribe Me. This one seemed different because there is "class" you take before you take a test. It's like they invest in you a little bit more, however it was a 3 hour class and test and I never got around to it. If you have the time, give it a try and let me know how you like it. https://www.transcribeme.com/

I needed a break so I started looking at starting a blog or website. I started thinking about restarting my old side business, Puppy Love and Flowers. Started designing a web page just for fun because it was so much better than transcribing an accented audio. The idea of using my old TGIS Flowers' floral photos to make my site pretty popped in my head. I started looking at old photos and I got hooked. A trial web site turned into a full site full of photos and pretty pages. I couldn't stop. I stayed up for hours after my full time job to finish this website that I started for fun. It was so enjoyable that after 20+ hours, I felt like it was perfect.

And then I pressed "publish". What was I thinking?? I didn't have a plan of how or what I was going to do. For a moment, I thought, just try the free site and see where it would go but then i thought, if I don't put 100%, after a month or so, it would just be an empty shell taking space in a World Wide Web. The fire was burning strong.... and I ended up buying my own domain and posted on social media that I'm starting Puppy Love and Flowers back up and to stay tuned, in hopes to get me going until this business becomes successful. A part of me thinks I'm crazy to start a business during COVID-19. But in the end, I'm choosing to believe that I'm brave to take the leap in a world full of uncertainties and have the grit to keep going until I become successful.

So, I guess my "now what", is being a small business owner. Just a teaser of some print on demand products in my Etsy store. Graphics courtesy of Minimole Studio, Graphic Adventure and The Happy Graphics. Stay tuned as I revamp my handcrafted goodies in storage and create some new ones.