Flexible Working Life

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I got an email this week from Retail-Eyes asking if I would like to go to a hotel and get paid for it. 
Naturally, I said yes, then I remembered that I hadn’t done any mystery shopping in ages.  In my last post, I listed some of  the companies that take on mystery shoppers, so I thought I’d have another go. 
I remember being offered some great assignments when I was last with the companies, I got paid to have my hair cut, stop in a hotel, eat at restaurants and I even got paid to drink wine! On most assignments I could take my son and it became a fantastic game where we pretended we were secret agents.
So, after quickly logging my interest and imagining all the 5 star hotels that I would be offered to assess, I excitedly went to the ‘view assignments’ pages [Read more]

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Fancy getting paid to shop?  Sounds like a dream, and in most cases it is.  You won’t earn much (if anything) but you do get to buy things and keep them.  So if you’re a bit of a shopaholic, it might be for you…

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It’s half term next week.
Which means I’ll be working around the child as he won’t be occupied in school. Which means I’m typing this on a Saturday night, half working and half watching the Eurovision Song Contest.  And even though that does sound like some kind of crazy torture, it also means that if I work now, I get to spend a few days with my little boy next week doing fun things.  I have no room for complaints.
Anyway, I got to thinking about all the other kindred spirits who are too, working when they can for the free-time payoff, those who play hide and seek only to hide in the office and check emails, those who will try oh so hard to be enthusiastic about making play-doh animals when all they really want to do is well…anything else really…
Then I read this post, and now I’m going to shut this thing off and have a beer.  I have a week of emotions to look forward to, swinging from parental satisfaction to resentment to guilt, I figure need the alcohol.