Impoverished Celebrity

I still sleep well every night, to be honest. I 100% do.

So like I was saying yesterday, sometimes people claim you are unimportant, worthless, boring, have a “messed up” life, etc. but yet they go to great lengths to see what you’re doing and get intel on you. Getting that “info” is like a drug to them. Some even go out of their way to throw monkey wrenches in your path to see if you become homeless, and it just seems a bit on the weird side to me.

Some think I’m the weird one because I like my privacy (and boundaries) and don’t care to report my every move to Tom, Dick, and Harry. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that’s all it is. It’s an opinion, and opinions aren’t gospel, law, or truth. They are merely statements about how one person feels or thinks about a particular person or subject.

What is weird, crazy, ugly, and useless to one person might be highly valuable to another. For every million people who hate pennies, there’s probably one who loves them, lol. Just an example.

I feel like an impoverished celebrity sometimes. I definitely have some “fans” and a lot of hate, but I don’t have any of the recognition or money, lmao. People do to me the same things they would do to a celebrity (invade privacy, stalk, defame, gaslight, etc.) but I don’t get any of the monetary benefits. That sucks boots.

Last night, a simple task almost turned into chaos. Like I said, my “job” is task X. That’s it. Task X is not always easy, though. Sometimes it involves consulting with customers and establishment employees, and that’s okay. But I’m only going to go so far. Once it gets into certain aspects, it’s out of the scope of the task. I’ll be more than happy to do “all that” for a handsome hourly wage I can live off of and zero abuse.

What I do right now isn’t that. It has nothing to do with that and is not my job. I’m performing task X for random people, and that’s it. The offers I accept are for task X, not A, Z, and everything else in between. Altered terms require pay adjustments.

That subject came up in a video I was watching today. Commitment versus “changes”.

I am someone who tries to honor my commitments and follow guidelines. However, I will cancel something if the terms change. At that point, the other side is not honoring the original “contract,” and I do not agree with the new one because no money has been added.

So yes, I will cancel something that drastically changes because it’s not what I agreed to do. I will also cancel something that’s set up to leave me with fewer opportunities and less freedom of choice or something that’s impossible to do without getting a negative mark.

Here’s an example.

Let’s say I do house sitting work through a third-party that takes a commission in exchange for finding me work. They get their commission as long as the “contract” gets fulfilled.

I originally agree to house sit for a client for 2 hours for $40. House sit = literally sit in one’s house and ensure nothing happens to the property, and that’s all the client outlined in the original “contract.”

Now the client wants me to walk their dog, take the trash out, go to the post office with their packages, babysit their infant and read them a bedtime story, and fix their television … for that same $40. Well, that’s not the original “contract”, is it? Nope.

The third-party company doesn’t care because they get commission as long as the “contract” gets fulfilled. So they work all kinds of magic and antics to push to get it done. But I care because it’s more work than I originally agreed to do for that price. So I’m well within my right to not honor the “new” contract.

The problem with working with third parties is that they set things up to try to eventually force the contractors to fulfill all these “contracts” at any cost (to the contractors). Then it becomes like an employment situation, but we don’t get paid or recognized as employees.

Third parties are great for providing the opportunities, but they always get greedy and controlling. So doing contracting work eventually makes you feel like a highly underpaid employee. If you’re going to be treated like an underpaid employee, you might as well be one, right?