A part of me…

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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

OK, these past couple of days have been quite eventful…. As I have previously stated I was (and still am) seriously thinking about leaving my current job. On Wednesday I had a meeting with my TL to discuss this. During this meeting he said that “we could part ways” and if it came down to this he wouldn’t be able to help me, because he didn’t see much activity on my part.  Now I can’t say this surprised me, it is true that for the past couple (or more) months I haven’t been the most productive person in the company…. What can I say, I don’t get a tasks, I am left to find work on my own which after 2.5 years working with the same sites and same products is a bit difficult. And when I told him that I was seriously thinking of leaving his response was “That may be the best course of action”

On Thursday (yesterday) I had an interview regarding a job, which went well, but I am not the perfect candidate, so I really doubt I will get the spot. Anyway after the interview I was thinking of talking to the HR and give them my notice. But when I went in the office I found out that my TL, the same person who said we may part ways, resigned. The management in Ireland locked our AdWords accounts without a notice, because they were planning a change, and that was the final step which pushed him over the edge. What can I say, I can’t blame him. Anyway, because of his sudden resignation I decided I will wait until the meeting with the new management in August and decide what to do then. Maybe there will be some changes which will keep me in the company, or maybe not. And besides – I still don’t have another job….

And then there is today. I got a mail from the HR who wanted to have a meeting with me. Now this can’t be a good sign given the conversation I had with my, at the time still active, supervisor. But then there is this other e-mail from one of the managers who is giving me the logins to another AdWords account, asking me to take it over… meaning more work (which is a good thinh considering I have no idea how to fully ocupy my time.)

So will I be “released” on Monday? Maybe, probably, most  likely… Stay tuned to find out if I will get the pink slip…

I haven’t written anything in a while, something I was reminded a couple of times. To be honest I was a bit surprised to find out someone actually cares if I write or not, so a big “thanks for caring” to them (you know who you are).

So what have I been up to these past few weeks…. Well, I went kayaking for a couple of days. Rowing all day, easting, drinking and singing around the campfire at nigh, sleeping under the night sky- it was really great. I swear I have never seen such a beautiful night sky as I did those days. I will definitely do that again.

A couple of weeks back we celebrated the birthday of one of my friends at out place in Balchik. I was thinking to get my friends together for a weekned there when I got the call from him, inviting me to his BD, so I offered him to do it there instead. Barbecue, beer, nice music and friends all around – it was fun. One thing surprised me though – when it was all over there were still a couple of beers left, which is so NOT like us. Ohh, well, I guess I should throw an after party one of these days.

For the past few weeks I have been seriously thinking of leaving my job…. I don’t know I am not doing anything there, just wasting my and their time and it has started to get on my nerves. I always irritated and angry at myself for not doing anything with my life… I need a change…. Problem is that I don’t have another job, so quitting right now is not the smartest move I could make which irritates me even more… I was accepted in an affiliate network today, which is great, but I have almost no experience in Affiliate marketing and I can’t possibly hope to earn a living with just that. I also have a couple of projects in mind  but still…

Anyway I will think of something, I just hope I will make the right decision…