A part of me…

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Yes, today I got my first payment from Google. As you have noticed I have some ads here on the blog. For those of you who are new and just stumbled upon my lovely, but a bit neglected blog I have put AdSense some time ago – just to see what happens. And I was completely right when I said that I don’t really expect anything, lets be honest I don’t really write useful things – I just rant about different things and my life mostly – as I said not that interesting or useful things.

Last month I finally reached the minimum trehshold of 70 Euro and the payment was processed just yesterday. No, the money didn’t really come from this blog but from Hubpages where i post from time to time. come to think about it I have more useful posts and articles there then I have on this blog – like my lates post about London sights you should visit in London.

Ok that is it for now, I will keep you posted (probably)

It has been a while since I wrote anything here… to be honest there isn’t much to write about, or who to write to… Just writing things for myself isn’t really interesting or helpful… But then again this site does exist… it does have something here, so why not use it?

With that being said I want to talk about a couple of projects that I have in mind and that I want to realize – one for completely personal reasons and one other which is more or less work related. Speaking of work I changed my company, now I am working for a startup marketing company in Bulgaria… it exciting to work here, different clients, different projects different experience and tactics… and what is important I don’t have to wait for months to get some changes made, which is a big plus in their favor compared to my previous job. But it is not something that I wanted to talk about. It was about the projects.

The first one, completely personal one is BGStage.com – it is planned to be a website for the music events in Bulgaria… Concerts, DJs, etc. Why? Well for starters because I am really frustrated of not having a place where I can find information about these things… It happens too often to hear something like “Were you on that concert? it was great…” when I didn’t even know there WAS a concert…

The second one is more … work related… it is not something I am going to throw much efforts in… I don’t really expect a return of my efforts and time invested… but it is something that will help me with my work… I am an SEO after all, will probably be working on a lot of sites and having a travel blog at my disposal to write and publish travel related articles – flights, hotels reviews, travel and destination tips – is always helpful.

Last week I got my first mail from Google. It wasn’t a check but it was close enough – I received my PIN number for the AdSense account which I totally forgot I had (ok, I didn’t forgot about it, I just don’t check it very often).

In case you are not familiar, AdSense is the little (and not so little) ad blocks you see on some most of the websites – even this one   Every time someone clicks on the ads,  the AdSense account owner (in this case yours truly) gets paid for driving a potential customer on somebody elses site. This is the most popular way to monetize a website (unless you are offering a product or service but that’s another story). Anyway as the payments usually are sent by check, Google has to verify your physical address so they send you a mail with a PIN number which you have to enter in your AdSense account. Of course they don’t send it when you create the account (that would be a lot of postcards), but when you reach the minimum threshold of $10.

So basically last week I found out that for the last 3.5 months I had made $13.29 from AdSense (only $2.5 from this blog, the others are from Hubpages). I know this is nothing, but hey, it is not like I have done anything to earn more

P.S. I know you are tempted but please don’t try and help me out by clicking 100 times on the ads when you visit, because this may as well get me banned. Once or twice a week would be enough (just kidding… I think… )

So tomorrow I am having this meeting with some of the managers in the company I work for. To be honest I have no idea what we are gonna talk about, which makes me a bit nervous. Last week I thought I was gonna get the pink slip but thankfully get away with it. We will see how tomorrow meeting will go. Maybe the changes will be for good, or maybe not. I am still a bit worried about my job, even though I was assigned to work on yet another account. I can’t wait this week to pass. Not to mention that this weekend is the Spirit of Burgas fest and I already have a ticket.  I just wish this week is over!

UPDATE: OK, the meeting went really well. We talked about 6 hours of what is done on the websites, why it is done this way, what should be done and what are we palnning to do from now on. I must say it was one of the better days at the office, something i didn’t expect.

Today I was supposed to have a conversation with the HR in my company, a convesation I was worried will lead to me being “released of duty”. However the conversation didn’t take place and it wasn’t even rescheduled.  I don’t know what to think 0f this,  should I be relieved or worried? Should I even think about it? I mean I don’t even know what we will be talking about.  I have always been a person who doesn’t worry about stuff he cannot change, but then again I haven’t been in this situation before. Anyway for the time being I still have a job so I guess I should try and make myself useful, even if I am just postponing the inevitable.

UPDATE: I finally had this conversation with the HR and yes, I still have a job. The conversaation was regarding a request I made a couple of weeks ago when I wanted to switch to part time because of the freelance project I had then. Anyway it turned out I had nothing to worry about but this couple of days did gave me some perspective of what might happen.  And to think I was complaining that there was no excitement in my life