Personal Stress Relief from Economic, Environmental Issues

Last night I started a new endeavor. It’s not like I needed something else on my plate and perhaps I’m grasping at straws, but if I don’t figure out how to earn money elsewhere so that I can quit my job “working for the insane” I just might become insane.
Just when I thought maybe my heart rate would return to normal on my way in to work the jobs slowed down. Now instead of being on a job somewhere, my lunatic boss is seated right next to me all day long. In twenty phone calls she tells twenty people that she broke her ribs and although the X-ray showed only one broken rib, she’s sure there are more. Why? Because her accident insurance policy pays per rib. Oh, and this week, after umpteen dates with different men she actually seems to have gotten intimate with one over the weekend. According to her, she now has a boyfriend. Poor desperate man.
I need to quit.
I actually came across an ad for Examiner.com through Craigslist. I have been checking Craigslist regularly and responding to ads that seemed promising. Writing for Examiner.com could be an option. After being taken so many times by various scams and schemes I have become leery of anything offered on the internet. My answer, investigate.
I spent an entire evening reading everything I could find on Examiner.com, it’s policies and payouts. My first impression was that this would be a very low paying endeavor, not worth the time and effort that I would be putting in. There were plenty of people that wrote in various blogs and forums claiming that they’ve made almost nothing for many hours of work. Then I came across a different group of people that claimed that they were making quite a bit of money writing articles for the Examiner.
One thing that did strike me is that your content is your own. I can post on my blog and I can post the same article in the Examiner. I can use Wapatu and the Examiner interchangeably in the hopes of driving traffic to the other. I came to the conclusion that it might be worth taking a shot at it.
I went through the steps to become an Examiner. The first choice I had to make was in what category I would like to write. Since we have a place near St. Augustine which is just south of Jacksonville, I opted for “culture and events in Jacksonville, FL.” I thought this would be a good place to start and then I could always add other categories if it works out well for me. After filling out the applications and writing a sample article, I was accepted as and Examiner.
I now have my own page and my first article is live. Maybe this time, I haven’t jumped the gun. Maybe this time, this endeavor will pay off. Maybe this time, I will be saved from “working for the insane.”