Day Fourteen :: Caught Up in the Webs
Right. OK. So.
I finished listening to the interviews today – instructional, inspirational videos with various online entrepreneurs – then I started watching a one-hour webinar* on how to build a website. Now I’m OK with building websites and have managed to scrape by over the years with some pretty basic knowledge, but there are things I want to change about this place.
I need a proper static front page for a start, with proper navigation to services I offer, products I sell, a portfolio and a separate blog page. As with every other area in my life – thus far – my main problem with websites has always been with organisation. But then I suppose that’s all websites are really, little organisations of information.
Anyway, for the last hour of today’s block of training, I drifted into a world of pain and got stuck. Not exactly pain I guess, but the usual trial and error, frustration and mounting panic that messing around in the back-end of a website entails. (For an amateur.)
I know there is a lot to be said for leaving my website for now and concentrating on finding work online. After all, that’s what this is all about.
But I don’t want to do that. It feels half-cocked. And I’m not comfortable with the idea of being half-cocked. I want to sort my website out before I start looking for work really. I’m still teaching a few days a week in the afternoons – in the real world – and that’s enough to keep me going for now, money-wise.
How does this sound? I’ll give myself till the end of March to finish this period of preparation, then I’ll focus all of my efforts on finding work online. Yeah?
Yeah.
Sounds like a plan.
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In other news, I sent my first request to live in someone’s house for a month on Airbnb yesterday. It was a lovely place just outside of Amsterdam. With a cat.
This morning at 8am I got my first rejection. ‘Unfortunately I’m not accepting any bookings for now,’ I was told. Hmm.
Like a lot of people, I have a tendency to take any rejection at all rather personally, so my first reaction is to imagine that this is not true, that their property wouldn’t be on Airbnb at all if they weren’t accepting any bookings for now, and that it was more a case of them just not liking the cut of my jib.
Which is fine.
Perfectly fine.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY JIB?!!
Fuck it. Something will turn up.
By the way, when I’m feeling really frustrated, this is the song I like to play. As loud as is reasonable.
Until tomorrow.
*I really don’t like the word webinar.
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