Various kinds, actually, but $$ is the big one (isn't it always?).
Backdrop: I've got an assortment of health problems (fibromyalgia, chronic migraine, autism-related anxiety, depression, etc...). I was getting worker's comp (long story), but they started requiring me to look for 'appropriate' work, but define 'appropriate' as related to that one specific problem, not all the others. I just don't have the spoons to do customer service/retail, especially for what it pays.
So A) I need leads to work I can mostly or entirely do from home, probably writing/science related (but not journalism), which pays in more than $5 or even $20 per assignment. And something that doesn't require me to hustle for each micro-job. I can also code a little, & could probably pick up some programming given the breathing space & a carrot at the end. (I could probably also do some sort of social media work, or something activism-related that isn't predominantly interactive. Dealing with people is one of those autism-related problems I've got -- I can do it when prepared, but not routinely. hence no retail/customer service). And of course the kind of thing I was doing with the Daily Show/Colbert diaries, when I was doing them: gathering lots of info and summarizing it into a brief narrative (with more time than I usually gave myself for those posts, I can even polish it up. So proofreading/editing/etc might be a possibility, too).
And B) my home electric's been cut off. Long boring story about how it got that far, but I need $1,9-something to get it turned on again. (Well, actually I gave them my checking account to get things started, but it's still off two days later -- and i don't have one thousand nine hundred something in the account.)
Similar story with my phone/internet, though that's not as close to failure. That's still in the several-hundreds range somewhere Also my car insurance, though I've been with them for long enough without problems that I've got breathing space there. Still have to come up with another couple hundred by the end of January, though.
So. I'll hang around in comments for as long as this charge holds, & stop by later when I'm at starbucks or wherever, recharging (Cause in these long, dark nights, I need my audiobooks/candycrush!)
And it'd be paypal gifts at tiarachelgordon@gmail.com.
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