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I had received an offer from Tim Hopwood, producer and a host of a morning radio show on Willer Radio. His offer is, design a website for their radio station for free and get a free radio exposure in 4 states; KY, IL, MO, and TN.

If there are any web designers who are free at the moment, and at the same time has some products or services to promote. Then this is a great opportunity to advertise your product for free, well… not totally free, since you have to design a website for them.

If anyone interested, please contact:

Tim “Catfish” Hopwood
Program Director
Willie Radio / WLLE 102.1, Bristol Broadcasting Company
P.O. Box 679, Mayfield, KY 42066
Phone (270) 554-0093, Cell (270) 331-6204, Fax (270) 247-420

You can also send him email for enquiries about this offer studio/at/willieradio.com

I really wanted to get this offer, but I am too much tied up with my own projects at the moment. So I thought I let you guys have it. I have already informed Tim that I will be posting it on my blog. And he was, delighted ;)

CompuMed Services Sdn Bhd is looking for DBA and PHP Programmers, based in KL, Malaysia. My friend who works there as IT Manager has requested me to post this job advertisement. I know many geeks are out there reading this blog everyday. So if you are are one of them and looking for a good, stable company, then this is your chance to seize the opportunity.

Company is using Linux servers for in-house systems (inpatient and outpatient management systems). RDBMS used: PostgreSQL, Server OS: Linux.

Office is located in Damansara Heights, Wisma UOA building. Working hours Monday-Friday/ 8:30am-6:00pm.

Job Description
PostgreSQL Database Server administration, including uploading/updating
of data, tuning/optimization, cleaning-up, writing statements to be used
in our reporting servers.

Responsibilities
- Manage PostgreSQL related aspects of the servers.
- Fine-tune, improve automated backup procedures.
- Data uploading/ updating on daily/weekly basis.
- Write technical documentation (DBA Procedures, Guidelines)
- Write SQL statements to be updated into reporting servers.
- DB cleaning for duplicate records.

If you are interested then send your resume to: kamchi[at]compumed(.)com(.)my

Being a full-time blogger is a great thing, but it comes with its own responsibilities and challenges. I would like to point them out in this post. Maybe it will be useful to those who are thinking of going full-time.

Challenges of being a full-time blogger

1. You have to be consistent

Being consistent is a challenge of its own. When you are a full-time blogger, and if you are serious about it, then sun or rain, work or holiday, you should deliver same number of posts every day - consistently. How frequently you should post is a different topic, but whatever is your own post frequency, you should stick to that and keep it coming.

Most blogs post 1-3 posts a day, some blogs post one post in 2-3 days. You should remember that you can’t post too many posts a day, because that’s the first reason why readers unsubscribe from your blog RSS. If you post too less then your blog’s traffic will be on the slower side. So keeping to one post a day is a safe choice for many blogs.

2. You have to be persistent

Some people get excited when they start earning some money from their blogs and quit their jobs, and go for full-time blogging. However full-time blogging won’t guarantee that you will be earning same amount of money or more, you have to be prepared for down times as well.

When these unfortunate times arrive, you have to keep going, you have to be persistent in what you do even if it does not show results. Sometimes the solution for these times (down times) is persistence. Many people give up these times, you shouldn’t!

3. You have to be creative everyday

It’s not an easy task to keep blogging everyday, you have to be creative in coming up with new topics that will be interesting to your readers. Blogging about what you love or blogging about what you are expert in will be a good help here. Just like hobbyists, when it’s something that you love doing, you can go for years doing the same thing, that is - writing interesting posts about particular topic.

4. Be ready for colleague-less life

I have heard stories that some people even became depressed after quiting their job, because they got used to office life so much, and that they were now lonely (with only blog to stare at). To combat this, some people even rented office rooms to get that feeling of “going to work” everyday.

Personally I didn’t experience such things, maybe that’s because I never really liked going to office. Even before I became full-time blogger, there were times when I had quit my work for up to 1 year and survive on my internet business earnings. And during these times I became so attached to this work-at-home life, being your own boss and not going to work. After that I tried to join a company again and only lasted there for a year. That was the turning point for me, so I went full-time blogger! Since then life has never been better.

So these are the challenges that I could think of from my own experience. If you have anything to add please do so in the comments. I hope it will be useful for part-time bloggers to consider these points when they decide to quit their jobs.

oDesk in its own words
oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment. Every day, thousands of buyers and providers work together through oDesk - a unique company at the forefront of reinventing work.

Basically it’s a site where you can post projects and hire people. Something like RentACoder.com. I am currently using RentACoder and I should say it’s a very good site with a complete set of tools and services to manage your projects. If you have used oDesk please let me know. www.odesk.com

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I must say this is a really good idea. ProgrammerMeetDesigner is a site for programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and writers to find each other and work together to create websites that look and function great. Because sometimes it’s really difficult to find the right person (designer/programmer) for a particular project.

www.programmermeetdesigner.com