ramblingsbyamy

Neowide went and changed their pay structure, today on Halloween. This is a mean spirited trick to play. The freelance writers who write for Neowide, believed we were writing for payments. Around noon ESTt today we all got an email telling us they are going for ad sense payments only. I am at a fifty-dollar pay out and have been for a few days prior to their change. . The money we make to help us make ends meet, I work my butt of as a single mom to support my family, and I am livid tonight at Neowide.

Here is their trick for Halloween, an email saying they cannot pay us freelance writers because their visits from Google were too small. aww urine poor traffic not my fault, give what you promised. I do not work for free or ad-sense.

This blog post it my TREAT to Neowide. That fifty dollars I worked hard for, what you did was plain wrong,  

In year, two not much happened because he was in
South Korea for the most part by himself except when he came home on leave in early December. I had spent the year raising our daughter with the help of our parents as the bank transfers were not set up yet. It seemed as if there was always a problem. I could have found a job to help with my expenses and I did when I moved from my parents to his out in CA. Locally I had gone on assistance so I could afford my own apartment when our daughter was an infant, as I could not work. I had mentioned it was a difficult labor yesterday briefly and that is part of the reason I could not work. Between healing from the c-section, and taking care of her extended medicinal needs there was not enough time to work. Truthfully, I should not have had to work since my husband was making good money in the army, but he was using it for other purposes.

When I traveled to CA to meet his parents, I fell in love with
Duarte where they lived. Therefore, our brief 2-week vacation turned into almost a yearlong stay. I worked for a temp agency, but my father in law would not allow me to help with bills, he said that was my husband’s place. My pay went for dinners out and toys for my daughter. My in-laws bought the formula, which my daughter was on until she was almost 2 years old.

 I over heard my mother in law ask my father in law that first day we met them if he had picked up the right girl at the airport. At first, I was insulted, but my mother in law sat me down and explained her statement and I was shocked. My husband was one of those who was forced to make a choice, service or jail because of drugs! I had never done drugs or been around anyone who had done them so that was a shock to me.  

When my husband came home on leave, we had a nice first birthday party for our daughter. We also met some of his old friends, and when I did not fit in with those drinking friends, I was not invited to go. I sat home with my in-laws. I went to one party with them, they all did LSD, when I realized what we happening I went outside, later that night my husband told me I would not be going to anymore parties.

I loved my in-laws, I think in many ways I was closer to them then my husband ever was which is sad. I met them in1987 and separated from their son in 2005 and they made me power of attorney for both of them in 2008.  They were one of the biggest reasons I stayed in that marriage long after I should have left.

Do you see the abuse in this one? Remember abuse is far more then the physical beatings. The money issues were the main problem this year, as he did not share the money he got. In the service, you get money for a family. It was a family allowance. He also got over seas hardship pay, which was supposed to help the family left behind.  What was he doing with the money? Stay tuned for year 3 when Amber and I move to
South Korea with him.

In April of 1986, I got married at nineteen, in
Texas and pregnant. My parents were in PA, so they did not attend my wedding or meet my husband until 6 months later, or my dad would have told me not to do it. I know my dad that well, but i was a young scared adult who did not know better.

I met my husband around mid February at a party and on that first night, he said he was going to take me way from my boyfriend and make me his wife before the month was over. I thought that was romantic for many years, now I know better.

I moved out of my sister’s trailer to another town closer to post. So now I was in the city, in an apartment complex where I knew no one, and so ill. That pregnancy was rough I passed out in front of a convenience store and put on bed rest at 5 months. He still drank like a fish, went to parties on Friday night, and returned home on Saturday. When I almost lost the baby, and my landlord took me to where he was that lady rushed me to the hospital. After that, I went with him to the parties, but never drank. It was so nice being around people once more on the weekends.

Now 22 years later, this was a marriage of control and it began the night I met him. He did ’steal me away’ from my long-term boyfriend. It was nice at first I thought, so romantic I loved the little presents. Isolation is a huge part of control, and I sure got a huge dose of it. That baby a daughter I named Amber was born the week before Christmas after a difficult labor that resulted in a c-section. Luckily, I was back in PA with my parents, but my husband was in on duty with the army in
South Korea and had been since November.  

Stayed tuned for year two,

Life is what you make of it, we all know that and as a survivor of domestic abuse I implore everyone in that situation to think hard about getting out of it. Truthfully, if I can get out and survive anyone can. This blog is taking a new turn so you can see exactly how a loving relationship can turn dangerous.  

Had I know what he was like I would have never entered into that marriage but the past is the past and I cannot change it. All I can do is to show others how easy it is to be caught up in trying to save someone that you loose your self.

Yesterday within my blog I talked about coming back inside on a fall day and eating chili from the crock-pot.  Some may say this is the lazy woman’s way to cook, I say it is the smart way to cook. Yesterday I just tossed all the ingredients in there and let it cook all day, until we were ready for it. I simply fried the meat up before I added it to the other ingredients. Once you add some bread it become a good meal to end the fall days we are now experiencing here in the northeast

Any kind of soup is perfect for the crock-pot, along with mac and cheese, don’t forget spaghetti sauce that has cooked all day. All are yummy and if done correctly they are healthy for your family. it is a great way for those writers among us to have a home cooked meal without the hassle.

Today was one of those beautiful fall days where the sun shone down for hours, warming everything with its glow. In the shade, of course, it was a bit cooler. All over town, people were outside enjoying this day walking, or taking care of yard work before the snow comes. I seen one couple working on their Christmas lights, these warm fall days are perfect for hanging those Christmas lights.

Thank goodness, we could come inside for the night because when the sun went down it became cold. Inside it was warm and we enjoyed a crock-pot full of chili. As we close the doors on the world around us, we are thankful for a warm safe house.

What kind of karma are you getting these days? Karma, everyone has it, no one wants the bad type. If you are getting bad karma, it is within your power to change it. How do you change this? Start doing good stuff, volunteer around the community, and visit a retirement home, or even hold the door open today for all those people you meet.

Doing good for others is always a good thing to do. As long as it is legal, helpful and brings a smile to someone’s face you are doing great. Try doing something nice for someone today and you will see how much it brings back to you.

The leaves fell off the trees a bit more today as the northern winds decided to let us know that the time of change is soon upon us. Last weekend the trees still held their coats of many colors, but this week has taken its toll. It looks like winter out there, all the color is gone from the trees and plants as they prepare for winter.

For those of you who do not live in this part of the country, the days can be warm but the nights dip down into the lower thirties. We have already had frost on the grass when we wake in the morning and it will not be long before the blanket of snow makes it all beautiful once more.  

The beauty of being a content writer is being your own boss, and making money at your own pace. Sounds like a great life style right. The huge trap no one mentions is that sometimes those web sites advertise high amounts, I have seen up to 20 bucks for an article.

For quick cash I began writing for a web site that promises to pay writers anywhere from a buck to ten dollars to write.  In reality after 30 articles I have not seen any one article paid for more than $2.75 and most have been between a buck and a buck twenty five. This would not be bad but there is nothing for the page views those articles receive. We are handing them exclusive work for pittance. I am almost up to my payout of fifty dollars and I am out. I would not mind selling them for a buck or two if there were page views involved.

Setting goals for yourself as a content writer is always a good idea, to ensure the proper income flow you desire. I strive as a content writer to create at least six articles a day, sometimes I write more, some days I write less. Six articles a day are not really, cutting it for me as a content writer. It is because of the location I choose to put my articles.

If I choose to put them in a lower paying market, I may make 24 bucks from them if all are accepted for at least four bucks. That maybe livable wages in a third world country but it is not in the
United States. Therefore, I have to write more and write them well enough that they will all sell. It is a vicious cycle.

I could cut down to 4 articles a day, and write them for higher paying markets where I am making ten dollars a piece or more for each and be way better off. Of course, that is hard sometimes. We all can guess that higher paying markets require more words for the ten bucks. I am ready to write fewer words for more pay.

Up to yesterday, as a content writer, I have written 108 articles this month and that was 43,038 words so word high word count total is easy for me. I have been paid $92.35 for 64 of them and still have some, which are not paid for. So far, my profit per word is $.0021. That token amount is unreal.

Change is needed!