Assalam and hai. So as for today's entry I would love to share about what I do to fill up my free time during holidays. Like I am currently on holiday until idk, September kot. So meanwhile alangkah elok nya kalau kerja kan? Macam dapat duit, dapat belajar erti hidup yg sebenarnya. Unfortunately, every time aku tanya ayah aku boleh tk nak mintak kerja dkt AEON ke mana ke, he would always decline it. Entah la sejak dari cuti SPM lagi, masa 2015 hritu ayah tk bagi kerja.
So masa cuti SPM hritu sedeh ah. Sedih dia pasal BANYAK barang teringin nk beli tapi tak ada duit. And my parents is jenis yang macam "you want it, work for it". Tapi dah nk kerja dkt luar tk boleh how am I suppose to get money kan? Thanks to nowadays information technology, one day aku Google la mana tahu ada kerja dari rumah ke apa ke kan?
So dipendekkan cerita aku jumpa satu websites nama dia jobdirumah.com. Tapi aku rasa dia dah tukar nama kot sekarang. Kena la bayar fee dalam RM50. So pendekkan cerita lagi. I didn't get any job. Sedih gila ahahahhaa. Then I go to guru.com. And that is when my career truly embarks (ecehhh). But before I go further, apa sebenarnya nama kerja aku ni? As far as I know it is known as 'freelancer'. You work independently from your house. Client give you task-you get it done-they happy-you get paid. Easy money. (Not really).
My first ever freelancing job was really simple. It is converting PDF to MS Office doc. I got invited for the job in Guru.com. Simple tahi kan?Like buat online pun boleh. Tapi idk la maybe the client just testing me ke apa. My first client is from Florida, US. And yes I am usually paid in USD. The best part is bila dollar mahal, convert duit Malaysia perghhh ahahaha. So with first client ni banyak jugak project done dgn dia. Mula-mula dapat dlm $15-$30 mcm tu je. Lama-lama collectively cecah la $100++ kot. Alhamdulillah. Actually masa dkt KTT pun aku still buat kerja (data entry). Tapi kejap je sbb ada pre AS kot masa tu so gotta focus maynnn.
Sepanjang jadi freelancer ni aku pernah kerja dengan dua client je. First pak cik Bob yg from US tdi (serious dia suruh panggil dia Bob) and second client is from a company, Linguistix Tank. Linguistix Tank ni based in Toronto, Canada. As the name of their company is self-explainatory, company ni do translation, transcription and many more la yang berkaitan dengan linguistic field. So dengan company ni aku kerja as transcriber. First start masa November mcm tu kot lepas habis A-Level.
Kerja dengan company tu by contract. Kadang2 dua minggu,at most 1 month kalau ambil kira setakat ni la.
Transcriber ni kerja dia kita dengar mcm short audio in Malay lepas tu type balik with certain format. Selalunya source audio tu daripada 'Ok Google', 'Google Now keyboard' dengan voice note What'sApp. Tpi yg voice note ws tu jarang a. Pernah sekali aku dapat voice note laki marah bini dia. I was like WTF?!🌚🌚🌚 Drama gila seh.
Second contract job dengan company tu masa bulan March haritu. At first aku still start as transcriber lgi. Then masa tengah2 bulan tu tiba2 aku got promoted jdi reviewer. Which is kerja dia check quality kerja transcriber yg amatlah berganda senang. Plus payment dia lagi berbaloi. Kalau macam transcriber we got paid $0.03/utt audio. Kalau as reviewer we got paid by hour. $12.5/hour and max 7 hours je sehari. So aku masa jadi transcriber, paling max pun mampu buat 1000 utt sehari, (itupun macam apa dah makan ke mana, mmg tak ada life LOL). So from that pandai2 la kira. Jauh lgi berbaloi payment utk reviewer kan?
Tapi jadi reviewer pun ada cabaran dia. Kalau mcm tersalah check silap hari bulan kena maki dengan transcriber. Aku kena masa mula2 jadi reviewer. Kena maki dgn sorang mak cik. Oh my! Stress gila hari tu. Dah la kena maki masa birthday. WTF gila. Tapi tak apa, dari situ aku belajar dari kesilapan adn also belajar macam mana nak hadap species macam mak cik tu. Ini baru kena maki dekat skype belum face to face lagi kan?
Jadi freelancer ni kita kena betul2 jaga quality kerja, professionalism and discipline. Jaga tiga tu insya Allah client akan bagi lagi job. Itu yg best sbb tak payah cari dah macam dulu. Huhu.
Payment pulak usually through PayPal. Dari PayPal tu pun actually nak shopping pun dah boleh dah. Banyak je websites terima PayPal. Tapi kalau nak juga duit tu masuk bank, boleh je transfer nnti dia convert jdi RM. Tapi kena tengok2 la jugak conversion rate. Dulu murah je dlm 3.85 mcm tu kot. Sekarang hoho 4.3,4.29 haritu 4.4 pun ada.
From freelancing job ni (dengan izin Allah), Alhamdulillah la I got to buy my dream phone and laptop and backpack and first ever kpop album (luls) ahahahahahahhaha. So happy and wanna keraii so hard.😭😭😭
So verdict:
What I like about freelancing job:
-Masyuk (USD kot)😌😌
-Selalunya kerja dia mudah
(actually banyak freelancing ni job scope dia diverse gila, Google la!)
-Waktu kerja suka hati kau, asalkan submit before or on deadline, nak tido lepas subuh, pun tkde hal.(jgn ikut ok)
-Jarang la kena marah ke apa ke so best la.
-Make new friends with various backgrounds.
What I kinda don't like about freelancing job:
-Bile client kedekut.
-Bila client bayar lambat.
-Bila kerja banyak tpi time frame pendek gila. Ini boleh buat meroyan serious!
-Tak banyak bergerak so tk berapa nak membantu dalam penurunan berat badan.😑😑😑
Okayy that's it. Actually banyak gila lagi nak share psl freelancing job ni macam website mana lagi ada offer kerja macam ni. Macam mana nak apply and all. Tapi nanti berjela la pulak entry ni. So takat ni ja la noh!
Yours truly,
-WAfIY-
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