Month: March 2010

When do you start calling yourself a professional and when do people start taking you seriously? I always thought that if you are getting paid for performing the service or work then you are considered a professional.

The people around me beg to differ.

I work from home as a freelance writer and photographer. When people find out that I quit my previous job as a medical receptionist to pursue my true passion of photography (while doing freelance writing to supplement my income) they make snide remarks (with an up turned nose) and hint around that I don’t have a real job.

Excuse me?

I am paying bills, rent and buying groceries with the money I make from my “fake” jobs. People are paying me to photograph them, while a reputable business (which I had to send a resume to with writing samples before being hired) are paying me to write articles. How is that fake? I get a W2 from the freelance work and have to pay taxes on all income I receive from both the photography and writing. I also have a business license for my photography.

So will someone please tell me how I don’t have a real job?

Yesterday was my husband’s birthday. For his birthday we rented four blue-ray movies, went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse and then made a quick stop at Walmart. While we where leaving Walmart, I stopped at the quarter machines and bought 3 mustaches. We had some fun with them. They where so worth the 50 cents each that I paid for them.

Welp, we finally got our new TV. We got a 47″ Philips from Sam’s and I love it. We have gone a few months without a working television since our 32″ Toshiba died on us so it’s nice to finally be able to watch television on a TV instead of watching it online. We also picked up a Blue-Ray player that has the Netflix streaming capability. That feature is absolutely wonderful! I love being able to stream Netflix’s watch instantly to our television.

I also made a special trip out yesterday to pick up SyFy’s Alice. It was released on DVD yesterday and I just had to have it. I waited months for it to come out and I couldn’t wait any longer. I spent last night watching it and trying not to drool all over my laptop when Andrew-Lee Potts (who plays Hatter) was on screen. He is just completely adorable.