how to know if tumblr has been eating your asks: send yourself anywhere between 5-10 asks, ( anon or not ) but have each ask be nothing but an order in which you sent them.
i.e: the first ask says ‘1′, the second says ‘2′, etc etc.
i sent myself ten of these, both on anon and not. This was all i received back:
Tumblr is now eating asks along with notifications. We must be more interactive than ever if we want keep this form of entertainment we call the rpc. Go ahead and warn your friends or test this for yourselves.. This post is reblogable.
I just sent myself five of these. none of them came through.
I just did this myself last night and out of the ten ask I sent myself only one came through.
Please know if I’m not responding to you, your ask, or your messages, I am notwillingly ignoring you. I am however doing my best to try and stay in contact with everyone.
sorry to everyone who tagged me or sent me an ask. If I didn’t react to it, tumblr didn’t show me.
shooting my feelings into the void, don’t mind me
isn’t it great when you mom just wants to have a simple conversation that really means nothing except it means everything to her because it’s to distract her from the fact that your dad is gone and you realize that but also you’re dealing with your own feelings about other people who are gone because it’s that time of the year but you’re not the kind of person who chatters, you’re the kind of person who just wants to bury shit deep and not talk for a while, so you’re caught in this pull of “appease the mom” and “I NEED SPACE AND QUIET”
I want to offer commissions to earn money for school and I figure I should offer a product with a skill I have
So how do you do that? I know it’s more complicated than simply listing prices and pictures. How do you set up the paypal? Do you need an existing bank account?
Howdy Kurohime! I do not know a lot about you but I do see your art reblog gallery and your other stuff, so I thought I’d put this together for you:
1.) Find out what your time is worth!
Here’s a trick ripped straight out of the the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines book.
Sit down and add up all the expenses that you have to pay each month. Consider things like house note/rent, insurance and other bills (and add in a food bill). Multiply that by 12 to get how much you “cost” in a year.
For me personally, I have shell out about $2.5K a month so I have to scrounge up $30,000 a year, and that’s buying nothing extra, going nowhere but work and straight home. No gain. No progress.
Add a salary to this figure. If you are shy about a number, at the veryleast give yourself what is minimum wage for your area. You must add additional money to this figure because otherwise you would not be able to deal with taxes or spend money on more than staying alive (new clothes, a nice night out for a change!)
For me, minimum wage is $15,000/year. $15,000 + $30,000 = $45,000. This will be my goal salary for this example.
Now, do two things:
1.) Your Daily Rate: Divide the goal salary by 230. Write that down. Multiply this by 1.15 (this figure is a profit margin; treat yourself).
Ex: 45,000/230 = 195.65. 195.65 x 1.15= $225 an (8 hour) day.
2.) Your Hourly Rate: Divide the salary by 1125*. Then multiply the result by 1.15.
Ex: 45,000/1125 = 40. 40 x 1.15 = $46 an hour.
*I wrote 1125; the Handbook suggests between 900 and 1350, so I gave you the average of the two.
Are you going to charge people these hard numbers? Not unless you want to. However, you do need to know how much you are worth so you can answer the question every beginner asks: “How much should I charge?” When you know what your time is worth and you know how long it takes you to do something, it’s easier to answer that question!
“Isn’t $46 an hour lofty?!”, you might ask. If you made $46 an hour working 9 to 5, you’d be livin’ it up! Surely since I’m just starting I should charge minimum wage?!
NO.
Minimum wage is for people who work finite schedules, whether full or part time. Minimum wage is for the 9 to 5 world; the predictable world. You are not in the 9 to 5 world. You are in a world where you will rock-hop from client to client and can go from showering in moolah Scrooge McDuck style to suffering a workless dry spell for what seems like eternity.
Whatever you do, do not let anyone swindle you into paying you minimum wage.
2.) Put together samples of your work and tell people you’re ready for commissions!
Don’t put price tags on your work if you don’t want to. People will come to to ask what your prices are; you can haggle with them!
3.) Work on a ½ up front, ½ later basis.
Most people are awesome to work with! However, there will be bad eggs. There are those rare, but still distressing times people will take advantage of you if you do the work before they pay you, like running off without paying you. To get around this, you should ask your customers for ½ up front (and don’t start until they pay you!).
This works two-fold. First, you, the artist, know that at least you got paid something! And for the buyer, it’s easier, trust and money wise, to commit to a half-payment rather than the full thing.
4.) If you use PayPal, remember to send an invoice rather than accept gifts, and remember to use a Paypal Fee calculator!
PayPal will turn $15 into $14, and once or twice this is no big deal, but if you want to make good money (and I think you can), you will want to make sure that you actually get paid for what you need to be paid for! Account for PayPal fees in your invoices.
The way people do sometimes try to get around the fees is by sending money through gifts, but since the fees is how PayPal gets paid, they can/will also boot you for “suspicious activity” if you get paid via gifts.
5.) Keep records of all your transactions and a percentage of what you make set aside for taxes.
Assuming you live in the United States, this money you make on the Internet is income, and you get the wonderful thrill of paying taxes (JOY OF JOYS). You have to report them yourself, and if you don’t, you might can get away with it for a while, but, it’s best not to find yourself in a big fat audit.
Now I can’t give you financial advice in any legal capacity. However, assuming you live in the US, you are going to have to anticipate paying about a fifth of everything you make in taxes. The type of tax form you will be looking for is a called a 1099.
It’s *amazing* how wonderful it feels having an angry owner on your side
To clarify, now that I’m home: my job title is quality inspector. I look at shit and say “yeah that’s good” or “no go back and fix it you fuck.*” I was hired on with that title at this newest place right? Ok, moving on.
So there’s one other Actual Inspector, with two ‘helper’ inspectors (production guys i guess but they’re being heavily utilized right now since, as I said, only one AI.) She put me to sanding some tubes with her on Monday and I was like “ok fine, w/e, she’s really busy with this particular pallet of tubes, we’ll get to some real inspecting tomorrow.”
Guess what I did the next day.
and the day after that.
Did you guess it would be inspecting? Cute! I did too!
I have been boxing and sanding aluminum tubes, mostly by myself, since Tuesday. Not inspecting them, just sanding them. with weird gloves and terrible sandpaper that was never meant for human hands. One of the owners had seen me a couple times throughout the week, he came by and introduced himself yesterday I think? Anyways so he saw me chilling by the boxes and I guess he thought I was doing my Actual job and not, say, the job a production worker would be doing. Well. I guess the act of rubbing the shit out of a tube with some sandpaper caught his eye and when he came over and asked what I was doing, shit I thought I was in trouble. Especially when he said in a deadpan voice, eyes full of judgement “….we have guys for that.”
YOU HAVE GUYS FOR THIS??? REALLY??? I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED.
so long stupid story short he had me stop everything, took me to the floor manager (who had never bothered to ask me WHAT I was, and just assumed I was a helper) and re-assigned me back to the other inspector, with the understanding that I would NOT be sanding anymore. Ever. Unless it was little tiny scratches, not the thick shit she had me rubbing out.
I feel….100% better about working there. Still not happy about getting up at 4:30 in the fucking morning but w/e, I’ll acclimate until I find better.
how do you tell a friend “dude ily but you can make fighting an epic battle sound duller than a fuckin marble”
is there a word for when you freeze up and there’s like fucking pins and needles in your skin and your brain goes absolutely blank and the only thing you can concentrate on is the feeling of despair bubbling up from the pit of your soul?
asking for a friend
idk I just really like hardgore alice
bitching in the tags about the new steven universe nothing to see here
Yeah, it’s the Federal Communications Commission, the American agency that oversees shit like TV, Internet, radio, telephone companies, all that stuff.
I’ve seen a couple of things from people outside of the US wondering if there’s anything they can do. I’m not sure how loud your voice can be, but I do note that on the filing for 17-108 (again, easily accessible via gofccyourself.com and then clicking “Express”), at the address box, you can click “International”.
I have no idea how prepared this administration is to listen to anyone outside of the US when it’s fucking arresting journalists for asking questions INSIDE the country, but hey, can it really hurt? THE CHECK BOX IS THERE MAY AS WELL USE IT I SAY.
So here we go, here’s our action list.
REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST DO THIS BY TODAY, THIS IS OUR LAST DAY TO BE HEARD, YOU CANNOT WAIT ON THIS
AMERICANS: gofccyourself.com, click “Express”, fill out the form. However you’re feeling, make sure you put something more helpful than “go sit on a kebab skewer, FCC!”
AMERICANS: Call 1-888-CALL-FCC (225-5322) and make your voice heard, If you can possibly do both, DO BOTH. I know the phone can be scary, but the more you use it, the less scary it gets. We have a lot of battles ahead of us, and you might as well start getting over that anxiety now. I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU DO IT FOR, DO IT FOR FUCKING CAT VIDEOS, DO IT FOR VINE COMPILATIONS, DO IT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO WHATEVER KINKY PORN SHIT YOU’RE INTO THIS WEEK JUST DO IT
NON-AMERICANS: gofccyourself.com, click “Express”, and on the form, use the “International” check box under address. GODS KNOW WE CAN USE ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET.
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