Wins come in different shapes and sizes in this lifestyle. Sometimes it’s successfully finding your way around a new country/city you’re visiting to get to where you’re staying, sometimes it’s navigating your way through a conversation in a foreign language for the first time. Those types of experiences can seem daunting at first, but once you break through them, the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel is an awesome feeling! I had a win yesterday that had nothing to do with a foreign country, but about a basic life necessity – getting work. 🙂 I’ve done freelance technical writing for a while as I’ve been on road (thank you, Internet), but I haven’t been working these last few months. This was mostly by choice, but I knew that with this trip coming up, it was time to really buckle down and start trying to rustle up some dollars. Unfortunately, a lot of times, fun comes with a price tag. 🙂
Anyway – I had been submitting proposals for the last couple of weeks on Upwork.com, a website for freelancers and other contract type work for various tech writing jobs. Nothing was clicking and I wasn’t getting any responses to my proposals. Out of the blue one day, I got an Upwork invitation to interview for a gig to help a startup company write blog posts for their upcoming software release. I had a phone interview yesterday with the guy who was coordinating their marketing efforts. He and I hit it off both from the perspective of how my skills can help his company and just personally. He was very interested in what it was like for me living this type of life, so I got a chance to give him a short rundown of how Shawn 2.0’s life has been going.
So, he hired me to do the gig! 🙂 The company name is spatially.com and they make some interesting software that helps brick and mortar businesses determine where to find out where their target customers are and where to locate their stores. I’m pretty excited to jump into a new project and help a new company get launched out into the wild! Now I’ll have something to do in addition to exploring the city and practicing Spanish!
#Winning! (sorry, Charlie)
