Work At Home

 

Work at home has to be one of the biggest wishes for more than a few of us. In fact, I'd go so far as to say, that if given a choice with no loss of income and total absence of stress, most of us, if not all of us, would chose to work from home. That's taken in consideration of course, that we like our home, because for some of us, we may dread our home and that could be the reason that we love to spend so much time away at work. Personally for me, I love my home and I love that my home gives me the choices that it does. If, I want to change my scenery, I just crank up and go. If, it is seafood for dinner, I populate my scenery with water views, be them lakes, rivers or oceans. If, I'm grilling chicken or other meats, I surround myself with country or forestry scenes. I don't know and maybe it's my imagination, but I think that it aids in digestion if you take in all the ambience while sitting down to a blessed meal. If, you take the time to prepare and cook the meal, you might as well enjoy the enviroment where the food items originated or nearly as proximate where the food items may have come from. That's the joy in working at home and earning from home.

The Plan with any "work at home" or "earn at home" opportunity should be to find a program or service that is credible, duplicateable and offers some reliable income that is predictably based on your performance. Afterall, a "work at home"
or "earn at home" opportunity should provide a realistic and legitimate product or service that people are lusting for and is not currently being totally-supplied in the current market conditions or a product or service that is unavailable in the curent market environment. What product or service could that possibly be? Heck, if I knew that, I would be selling that product or service. So, if you have a "work at home" or a "earn at home" opportunity that you are curently making money with and it is legitimate, duplicateable and something the public is lusting for, I'd sure love to hear about it. In the meanwhile, I'm going to continue working at home and taking my meals with nature, because in these times, 10 miles per gallon is pretty good for a house!

Low Tide, High Aspirations

"Traveling the path of least resistance while experiencing the ambience of the journey, hoping that the final destination is many quarter century's away." (quote from Curthom)


I traveled here and there and some how, once again found myself in East Asia, seeking or perhaps having found one the least expensive places to rest and relax. It had been a rather slow year so far and I just needed a rest from all of the drama going on in the States.

I stopped in Hong Kong, but the cost of living per day for a non-resident,
(aka, a foreigner) was rather prohibitive, more than $100 a day and that
didn't correspond with the budget I had in mind. I was thinking something more or less around $15 a day or about $80 a week. So, my
instincts took me to the Philippines, where I had lived off and on, over the past few decades off very little indeed.

I landed in Manila after catching a flight on Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong. You got to love those One World Alliance Partners. You build up a lot of American Airline AAdvantage miles over the months, using a Citibank Frequent Flyer Credit Card paying for this bill and that bill, and before you know it, you've got enough miles to go someplace. Well, that someplace for me was Mactan Island, off the coast of Cebu Island, just across the Cebu Strait. What a beautiful place Mactan Island, like most of the Philippines, it's hard to decide exactly where to settle, because there are so many gorgeous places to pause, stay or settle.

On Mactan Island, you have the luxurious Shangri-La, The Cebu Hilton Resort & Spa and The Plantation Bay, with rates very well North of $75 a night and all these hotels serve a market for those who can afford them, but I'm not there yet and if, I was there, that is could afford such places, I really like interacting with the locals of the places I pause, stay or settle, so I chose something akin to what you see in the picture above. Something simple, something elegant in that it coexists with nature without taking too much from nature-that is, it has a rather small "carbon footprint," like my wallet.

The picture was taken from the rear of a popular eatery on Mactan Island and while I didn't physically stay at the dwelling in the picture above, called a "nipa hut," I have stayed in a nipa hut and it was all that I needed for as long as I needed. I'd like to have something like this when I'm back in the States, but our local Zoning Departments always has something to say about that, huh?