In the past fifteen minutes, I shit you not, I got three potential freelance gigs.
I walked over to the 2nd Street Coffee House for a latte because it’s cold out and some sweet warm milk with caffeine sounded good. While I was there, I ran into a woman who volunteers for Noah’s Ark (the local no-kill shelter) and she chatted me up about installing this software for non-profits and importing their Excel contacts into it for them. Bless her heart, she even bought my latte for me for my “consulting time.”
Then I came back to my desk, and a co-worker called me and said the local Yamaha franchise needs a site, the owner is her friend, and could I call him and give him a quote on a web site?
Then I got a call from these math geeks, and they need their site tweaked because their web master got a job on the left coast!
Just thinking about all this work has got me exhausted. Plus two gigs this month with two bands, and all the insane rehearsal time that implies. Ooh yeah.
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I really, truly love geeky work.
Makes me feel humbled. Or SuperGoddess-like. Depending. 🙂
That non-profit organization software looks so cheasy but it looks interesting. 🙂 But I kinda like it as it is somehow sufficient enough to help them.
I know what you mean. I was asked to design and build a web site for this restaurant and I didn’t even think how exhausting it would get. I will never do web site side business any more. 🙂
That’s so nice of her to buy you a latte!
The non-profit software? Looks like a Visual Basic 6 program. It would just ‘call’ eXcel when you need to enter data. Probably using a template. I took a 9 month course on VB6 programming and calling eXcel is par for the course.
I’m guessing but that project would probably be pretty easy and they probably just need you to explain how it works to them (which implies you need time with it to learn it).
Back when I was doing that for a living…I’d borrow the progam, install it on my computer at home and learn it at my leisure. Then charge them for basically reading the instructions.
Good way for you to make a few bucks to buy presents for people you know that are, say, living in Arizona for instance.