feeling cheated

by vienna on February 17, 2011

I am beat. But I think one of the projects I was asked to do is finally done. This online store project started from a scratch. I set up the wordpress site, chose the theme, installed the theme, tweaked the theme and removed hidden and unwanted links, created the logo (I am not a designer so I am quite proud of the outcome), uploaded the photos, and wrote the product descriptions.

Except for taking the photos, I did everything on this site. And according to Odesk reports, I logged 19 hours for this project from the time I started it. This project is under the job that pay 3$/hr. :( So all the work I did only brought me 57$.

I know I agreed to this virtual assistant job and I agreed on the rate but doing all the work and looking at it now, I feel so cheated. I know I am not supposed to feel that way but I can’t help it. It was hard work. I was working with separate spreedsheets that are not really organized so I had to cross-check everything (product descriptions, image file, price, etc). I had to work with some documents that are written in Spanish and had to make sense out of them. I had to make the logo and that was not so easy since I am not a designer. I had to tweak some php file and that was also not so easy since I am not a coder or programmer.

Now, I don’t want to directly link to the site because I don’t want my employer to find this post but if you are interested to check it out, I’ll tell you where it is. BUT please don’t leave a comment there like it is mine (it is not mine) and please don’t leave any thing there that would refer back to this site.

So if you are interested, here is the site: double-u double-u double-u dot inca stone dot com. Replace the ‘c’ with ‘k’ , then make the stone plural, then put them together as one word.

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sterndal February 19, 2011 at 7:52 am

hay buti pa yung blogs mo okay

yung sa akin naka-down … :(

pero ang ganda nung logo na gawa mo :-)

vienna February 21, 2011 at 11:37 am

salamat. pinaghirapan ko yan as in.

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