Fortunately, that changed this week. Brother Vaughan, an entrepreneur in our ward, needed some cheap help (I suspect there was some pity involved too) and unofficially hired me for the week. Basically, he runs a small e-commerce business that originally sold safety-related products but has branched out a bit.
Most of the work I did for him was data-entry related. For instance, he was transferring one of his sites, Lights for all Occasions, to a new platform. One thing this meant that all the URLs would end up changing, which would break any links that pointing to the site, which would be a Bad Thing. To prevent this from happening, he compiled a list of all of the old site's URLs, and had me use the product numbers and such to find the corresponding URLs on the new site (hosted on a staging server). And I had to do this before the new site when up.
Basically this amounted to two hours of pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (copy & paste). My left hand hurt afterwards.
Other things I did:
- Added headings and descriptions to all the product category pages for three of his sites.
- Filled the empty "Department" and category pages with products (or removed them entirely).
- Applied quantity discounts to products.
- Laminated 300 safety cards.
- Put lots of AA batteries into little ziplock bags.
Maybe it's the money, or the free lunch Bro Vaughan was kind enough to provide me, but, all in all, I think I like this "work" thing. It feels rather fulfilling.
(Granted, I can see the commute getting on my nerves.)
