the moaning freelancer

Where to start?…

Reading through all the books, posts and articles and watching all the interesting videos about reincarnation is certainly putting me on my toes with curiosity. But… Where should I start?

Getting around the clock

I am trying to set things up to go back to work but it’s showing to be terribly difficult. I want to try and get back to work, but I want to try and work from home only, instead of going around performing face-to-face interpreting jobs. It pays better, but I will not get to spend the same amount of precious time with my little boy. His big sister is not really an issue - when she’s at school - but she’s definitely a challenging child when she’s around! Any ways, I need to get into some mum-working-from-home forums to find out how other mums get around their children-time and home chores, because I find it difficult to start working when the house is in a pig sty condition… So when I finally get the time to do something (organizing paperwork only, for now), when the baby is finally asleep, when I finished my 20 mins workout and showered, is then lunch time and the baby is again ready for some more mum-time. Then, after lunch and feeding the baby, he has a teeny-tiny nap that only gives me time to put the dishes in the washing machine, taking care of the laundry and get ready to pick my oldest one from school. Once we arrive, I prepare her a little snack and she’ll be busy for a while watching cartoons and if I’m  lucky enough, she’ll be dozing in 15. But that still leaves me with the baby feeding and getting him to sleep. When I finally do it, my husband’s back from work and all I can think of is taking care of the dinner while I still have some peace and quite. How the hell do I get around all this?!

The article title says it all!

The good and bad about working from home - http://pulse.me/s/5MLAo

Self discovery as part of my reinvention

As part of my reinvention I have committed myself to a spiritual research. This is something I have been thinking of doing for quite some time, but because I always seem too busy, I have never got around to do it, or never had that special trigger. Don’t ask me why but I believe my trigger to have been the birth of my male son. 

I have been brought up as Catholic. My parents are Catholics, not sure if by personal or forced choice. But to be honest I have never felt “God” in my heart or anywhere else. I respect everyone else’s choices as I hope mine is respected. I even have a mega-religious aunt that has tried to convert me a couple of times, but my skeptical inquiry completely knocked her out (so to speak :))

Surely there’s something more powerful than us and for sure there are extra-terrestrial beings - how conceited is it of us to think we’re the only ones clever enough to have survived several billion years of astro-catastrophes, weather changes and very possibly native-beings self-destruction -.

No skepticism convinces me that someone who instantly knows something has built a false memory. It’s impossible that someone that has never studied a subject all of a sudden knows it by heart. You don’t know deeply about a topic only because you watch the Discovery Channel. It might help, but not at such a degree.

I say this because, I have always felt very familiar around foreign languages, I had not even had my first English class (in Primary School) and I already helped an older friend with her English homework. With good pronunciation and everything! :) 

Now, what I find quite upsetting is the fact that this search of self can not only show itself as very disappointing or/and become quite expensive. I would of thought that these people who perform past life regressions would do it to benefit the evolution of mankind instead of profit. Specially considering that most of them, if not all, have other areas in their business, so they shouldn’t need to charge nearly £200 (about $300) per 90 mins sessions! Besides, what guarantees have you got that they’ll put you “under” anyway? Who will you complaint to? Is it money-back guarantee?!

Off the record, the only times I have been close to a meditative state or when I felt life made sense was when I had had a joint! Now wonder most of the best artists end up dying from an overdose! :D

I have to say I am really curious about reincarnation and there’s no doubt there’s everyday more people looking into it, so I say that must be a sign… I have read halfway through Allan Kardec’s Book of Spirits and in parallel have been reading Barbara Ford-Hammond’s “Past Life Tourism” and I have to say many of the things they “preach” makes all the sense to me, much more than any Bible.

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted about my findings. 

Who’s moaning?!…

I’m the one who’s going to be moaning here. And you’re welcome to moan too! ;)

First things first, back to basics. Before being a freelancer I am a wife and mother of two. I’m born and bread Portuguese, studied all the way up to Uni - leaving the Translation Studies Degree pending for 2 disciplines fearing a work-less(?) future, immigrated to the UK just before things started to get ugly and Portugal was rated “trash” by the financial ratings agencies, as strategic as it may seem… Tried (and actually made it) to find work in my area, more as a Public Services Interpreter because not only the work flow was more regular but also offered better pay rates. Followed by a Level II English Literacy Course from the London Institute and a Health DPSI at the IoL, with other more professional courses in between, on with Remote Interpreting (over the telephone) and later actual translation work. 

After having my so wanted baby boy last November I had click. An inexplicable wish of re-invent myself made me consider broadening up my career options. So I started making some research and found the transcriptionist career more interested than ever before. I had read and heard about it, but I always thought of it as a boring job, more like an automatic sort of task. Now the Medical Transcriptionist sounds quite appealing, specially for the prospective of having a home career, where I can manage it along with my family life. Oh, yeah, that and the potential high earnings as well, can’t deny it.

The blog world is no news to me. I have actually decided to change blogging platform so I can allow myself a fresh start. 

I don’t know whether you found my first post interesting or not, but if you decide to stick around, I’m sure that eventually you’ll find something in it that you can relate to.

Talk to you soon!