Oh, the things you'll do

It's funny where you find yourself. I never thought I'd work my way into my ehow job (writing how-to's for video games, and I never thought I'd find myself reviewing porn either. That's right, I got a side gig reviewing porn. The way it works is this site fixes you up with a few free minutes of View on Demand (VoD). You go to the affiliate site with the pron, you watch whatever you can with 20 minutes, then you write a review of what you saw. If they like your review, they fix you up with more free minutes.

You write enough reviews, they get popular enough, and you earn some ad revenue and some kickbacks if anyone buys something after reading your review. I didn't earn anything from it, but I got some free pron and some very amusing stories from it! That alone was worth it.

I also find myself driving up to Martinez (about 1/2 hour northwest of here) every Wednesday morning at 10:15 so I can participate in a study on hearing for $12/hour. It's interesting enough and it beats the hell out of retail. I'd do it more, but I only have one free day a week. Believe it or not, it pays more per hour than my job at Best Buy did (I worked there this last holiday season, selling computers), the only hitch being I can't do it 40 hours/week.

I've been looking to get into technical writing. It pays better than most writing out there and doesn't look to be impossibly hard. I found a book at the used book store up the street (http://www.baybooks.us/ if you're ever in the San Ramon area. They're nice!) that is teaching me the craft, though it's a little dated. The latest copyright on it says 1991. It's funny how it talks about microcomputers being the wave of the future and how microcomputer proficiency will be a requirement for the educated in the near future. Funny, I seem to have this crazy notion that microcomputer proficiency is a requirement for EVERYONE these days, but hey, who am I to judge.

Point being, you never know what you'll wind up doing. I would never have thought I'd be trying to make money reviewing porn. I thought I'd stick to video games, but hey, it's a recession and you get work where you can. Even if it doesn't pay monetarily, it may pay off in other ways.