Well, I’d hung up the micro-job boots but Heather who lives in the same block as Mike, happened to spot a certain breakfast bar and was rather keen on having one in her flat (the layout is similar). Her enthusiasm was fantastic, so I was happy to come out of retirement for one final job…
Yes, the end of a mini-era called for a party, with ex-Lotus owner -- Mark -- as guest of honour:
Yes, on the same day that I find I shall be starting a new job next week, thanks to some cash for website support, I have completed the Crashed Lotus campaign….
Just in time really with the party this Sat to thank all the people who have employed me in my alter ego as Micro-job man!
Time for one more web video….. 
A cold wintry Wednesday saw the Crashed Lotus debt shiver down to £175.93 with a bit of a massacre to boot:
Having chainsawed my way through loads of logs, I then ended up herding pigs…as you do….
Just as the Crashed Lotus project was coming to an end, a restructure at work saw me seeking new opportunities in the brave uncertain world of redundancy. My soon to be ex-work colleagues enquired: “Are you now Macro-job man then!!?” Not yet, so it was time to crack on and perhaps get a bit of order and tranquility into my life…
So, a Reiki website was just the chill out job and so the counter ticks down to… £275.93
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Where can Mike eat his breakfast? Make cocktails?
The answer was nowhere, so it was time for Micro-job man to leap into action! A full day’s hard graft later and all the problems have been solved! Such industriousness means only £415.93 to go before the £0 mark!
No sooner had I put the pedal to the carpet in the Red Fiesta, than it was time for a quick yarn with my friend Steve. He knows Andrew of furniture restoration fame and could pass on the happy news that thanks to the micro-jobbing website, he’d had his first big job… top news!
High on that news, with some slate cash in the bank, it was time to Skype Portugal… yes, MICRO-JOBBING HAS GONE INTERNATIONAL! Obviously, dealing with foreigners from foreign lands, the website cash was up-front and I can announce that thanks to such mid-week industriousness… the crashed Lotus debt is now only…
When I first setup the blog, I was hoping that lots of people would want to advertise – driving schools, garages that repair Lotus Elises etc.
My first step was to install Google Adsense (See Lotus links), for which I get cash everytime someone clicks on the link. Except, I can only request a transfer if it reaches £60. So far (in 12 months), it’s only produced £19…damn! Plus some of the Google links are fairly random:
China traffic vest
Specializing in traffic safety vest traffic vest, police traffic vest
http://www.parz.cn/
So, it was with some extreme excitement that the first banner advert request from a company I’d never worked with (Microjob.co) happened on Monday. You can see their bright green advert on the right hand side of the blog, but before such an endorsement, I thought I had better check them out.
There seem to be quite a few “Micro-job” websites on the internet which have grown up to help organisations and companies draw traffic to their social media presences (Facebook, Twitter etc.) or their own websites. By visiting the microjobs page, on Microjob.co visitors can see a list of jobs and earn cash by:
When not being “Micro-job Man” at night, I work for a marketing and design agency and so it’s an interesting concept – useful for companies who’ve just setup their website or social media site and don’t want to look like Billy No-mates. I shall have a nose and see whether there’s some more income for the Crashed lotus campaign….
Yes, only £945.93 to go!!!!
So, the question that is clearly on everyone’s lips – where did this mysterious £67.07 come from?
It just so happens that thanks to all the micro-jobbing, a quick search on google for “micro-job” reveals some probably not entirely unexpected results:
All this high-stakes visibility against the “micro-job” and “microjob” keywords could not go unnoticed and I was contacted by a micro-job website designed to help make people cash with social media microjobs: http://microjob.co/
(Could you include the word “micro-job” more in that paragraph? Ed.)
What would a banner cost? I pondered and thought 2 micro-jobs (minus paypal thievery) would be a reasonable amount and so I shall get beavering in Photoshop….watch this space…
.. and the delightful rustle of tickly, lung-butter cannot detract from the crashed lotus mission as I inch closer to that magic £0 debt!
By creating a website for RPL Roofing, the remaining total is only £1058, almost on the magic £1k mark.
As the 1 year anniversary of the start of the Crashed Lotus blog has just passed, it’s a fine time to reflect on the £2,458.5 earned and the £1,058 still to go. The only question remains….
Can I clear it all before 1st October 2010??
(the deadline for 10% of people on the Debt Poll)
