'Insane Me...But You Never Know Til You Know' Pt. 1

The time is currently 2 AM, and the temperature outdoors is about 20 degrees. My apartment's heat has been on the fritz all week...and I tell you this because?

For the month of March, in an effort to see what it was really like to work graveyard shifts for a website, and hopefully attract new jobs for talents, I discovered many things that I have time to share with you now. If you see typos, it is because I am typing with gloves on.

So...why would I decide to do such a thing? Well...probably the same motivation that drove me to want to work for a website in the first place...'You never know what is happening, until you know.' That quest for knowledge, I am told by loved one's, is proof that I might be insane. I do not think so. I am just curious, and I do not like living a life where I expect things to be handed to me. Therefore, if I want answers, I burden no one and do it myself.

Sometimes, I get answers that leave me feeling satisfied, and proud I sought knowledge. Then there are times, like this week, where I find myself wondering 'ok...what was I thinking again?'. However, I never would have known this, until I tried. Maybe, the timing was all wrong. NYC got slammed with a snowstorm this week, and working from home is no fun when the heat breaks down. Cold, lonely, and quiet nights were not on the agenda when I planned this week. Let me tell you how this week has gone, so far:

• 3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
• 4 blankets
• 1 pair of gloves
• 1 winter ski mask

That was just to eat and stay warm...then for work:

• 8 approved projects between 12am and 8am
• 3 live chats taken at 5am from good folks in Melbourne, Australia, and the United Kingdom
• Caught up on much work I needed to, the very first night

Here is the part that I think Voice123 talents would find interesting:

• I approved only 8 projects, but between the hours of 12AM to 3AM, I have approved over 200 auditions each night.
  
• At 3AM, the traffic on the site goes dead for about 2 hours until 5AM. That is the toughest part of the night, and the time when I struggle most to stay awake.
• I guess I was very shocked to find out just how much auditioning goes on in the site, and from people in my own timezone, which is odd because the purpose of my experiment was to branch out into other timezones.
  
• Last night/morning at 4am, I took a chat from a voice seeker who lives in New Jersey, and wanted to send out thank you notes to everyone who auditioned to his project. Why this occurred to him at 4am? No idea.
  

The moral of this whole blog is to keep people updated on just how many things exist out there on the internet that we never could actually think about, until you do something a little insane and employ yourself to work in odd conditions to find answers because...you never know until you know.

I will update this blog again during the week.

One final thing I found out this week...

• I am young at heart, but my body is not. It needs rest to function productively. I do not think I can last a full month of this very experiment, I brought on myself. Oh well...at least now I know, and what fun is life if you don't try something new once in a while?
  

Insane me...