Today I went to a "training session" for an upcoming one-day-only job I've signed up for. Seems like an awful lot of lead up to what amounts to roughly four to five hours of work. Still, too much training is way better than not enough.

It was scheduled to last two hours but it didn't go quite that long. More like 90 or so minutes. I don't thinking I really caught enough of it. Fortunately I opted to not be the lead so I'm not nearly as stressed as I would be. The training was at a hotel down town. Come to think of it I haven't set foot in a hotel in years and this week I was in the lobby of one or another two days running. I don't think that means anything.

Otherwise I've continued to look at the various sites of how-to this explain-that. And that's still really the only thing I've done: look. There's just too many unanswered questions about taxes and unemployment (or lack therein) to make me really want to go and start seriously creating content. I have signed up for a few of them at least. I have also created a folder called "web jobs" in which is one folder for each web site I have signed up for and inside each of those is a URL shortcut to that web site along with an empty text file whose name is the user name I chose for that site. I also create different shortcuts to different pages within that site.

The goal is actually to archive all the content I create for all these different sites in word documents or RTFs or texts or whatever so I know how much work I've done for each and I can avoid directly duplicating content. Some of them seem to have a big thing about content being exclusive, some have different levels of exclusivity and still others have a up-to-you sort of a deal. But irregardless they all seem to recommend making the content you make for them exclusive.

And while only some emphasize "SEO" articles I have a feeling all would really appreciate it.

While I'm thinking about it I should probably complain about the government. Good thing that's not popular! Wow, sarcasm. Creative.

Anyway it seems like every possible incentive to get off of unemployment should be made. For instance if I wanted to say "pause" unemployment with no severe consequences I should be able to do that. I mean with all these web sites maybe combined I could make up to and including the equivalent of $14/hour after that whole 30% or so tax thing and maybe I couldn't. But it's kind of hard to to even want to go there if I know at the very least it would be incredibly difficult to start receiving it again and at the worst simply not an option.

I mean wouldn't be better to incentivize everybody to find alternate sources of income sooner rather than later? Isn't being unemployed generally considered a "bad thing"? My hesitations and concerns seem like proof enough perhaps that maybe things aren't set up like they should be. If anything trying new stuff and experimenting should be encouraged with tax breaks or possible extensions or whatever.

With that of course I suppose there would be further bureaucracy to prevent abuse of the system. More paper work, detailed plans, blah-blah. I mean I think it would work without additional bureaucracy. If you could just, oh I don't know, explain your plan to someone along with how long you want to experiment and then report back the results after some period of time. They could even look at what apparently works and doesn't work and try to circulate the ideas to all the other unemployed people. I mean jeeze. It's a problem right? Why not think outside the box or something...?

Ok I guess ranting done now.