The word "financial security" has a lot of different meanings. It has the freedom to buy whatever they want, whenever they want. Others see it as a way to become digital nomads, while others see it to get out of debt. Whatever you want, if you are dedicated, you will achieve it.
If you are prepared to put in some thought and time, formulate a plan, and work on it until you succeed, side hustles or hobbies will easily turn into full-time jobs. If you're looking for some extra cash or want to turn your hobby into a full-time job, here's some financial and lifestyle advice, so you can make money online and have more freedom.
Start right now
The most difficult challenge you'll encounter while trying to make a change in your life will sound cliched, but it's real. People talk about their goals but never take the first step in making them a reality. It's always easier to delude yourself into thinking you're working on something rather than doing it. As a result, starting slowly and progressively is important. Don't be frightened; instead, jump right in. That's how people figure out if the work they want is right for them. It's how you figure out which business strategies work and which ones don't. Consider a few choices, try something you like best, and try something else if it doesn't work. If you find yourself procrastinating and complaining about how horrible it is when working on it, reconsider your expectations and how much you enjoyed what you thought you did. What makes it easier today is that the internet helps you to access information that you wouldn't or couldn't find otherwise. It's much easier to put yourself out there and eventually create a following for whatever you're doing. Although being online does not guarantee immediate success, it does mean that almost everybody nowadays has an equal chance, which is why it is so appealing.
Putting money to use
Many people began investing and trading seriously last year, and this trend will continue in 2021. All, from millennials to baby boomers, want to learn more about it, and they should! Forex trading is another excellent way to make profits. Everyone wants to learn more about this "modern" way of making money, which is why, if you're going to trade, you should know what you're getting yourself into. Investing in cryptocurrencies has the added benefit of allowing you to start small and gradually increase your investment. Once again, the internet made trading and investing accessible to almost all. We often refer to trading as "investing" since that is what it is. If you've decided to invest, do some research to find out what concerns you and look for a reliable Forex broker online.
Please visit websites such as Forex broker reviews that provide scam prevention and advice that are well-known in your region. These websites include a list of licensed Forex brokers and businesses in your area; if the one you're dealing with isn't on the list, move on. After that, you'll begin to think about investing and setting financial goals.
Create a plan
We spoke about how important it is to get started right away, whether it's a side hustle or rethinking your money management to see if you can make any changes. It also takes a solid plan to do what most people neglect to do: change it as needed. The start and the outcome are essential, but you must also know how to get there. Many things can go the opposite of what you wanted, which is why you should never spend more than you can afford to lose. That's why experimenting is important in small amounts. It may turn out to be even better than you expected. If you don't already have it, you should practice being more flexible. Whatever it is, you will excel and achieve financial independence by trial and error and listening to others. Best of luck!
Some people no longer rely on their primary job alone for income. They also take on another one. Since online jobs are in demand, people with appropriate skills consider them. If you believe you will do well with online tasks, start submitting your applications now.
You can't continue living from pay check to pay check
It doesn't matter how much you earn from your main job. If it's not enough to meet your needs and have savings, you should earn more. Otherwise, you can't prepare for the rainy days. Imagine suddenly losing your main income. You can't keep going in that direction. When faced with emergencies, you will take out whatever loan is available, even if the terms are unfavourable.
If you don’t want to live this way, consider getting independent financial advice in Kent. You need a local expert's advice on how to manage your finances. It's even better if you receive help from someone in the area for a swifter transaction, instead of working with someone who isn’t close by.
You can use your existing skills
Working online allows you to use your existing skills. There's no need to continue a postgraduate degree or study for several months before you qualify. For instance, if you already have experience in photo editing, there are jobs available for you. Once you apply and pass the test, you're good to go.
You don't waste your free time
You hesitate to work online because you're busy. The truth is that you spend hours browsing your social media or playing video games. Instead of wasting your time doing them, it's better to work online. You can make money out of your free time and manage your time well. These jobs are flexible. Whether you choose to be an online writer or a graphic designer, the job doesn't require you to spend hours. As long as you get tasks done on time, you can satisfy your employer.
There's an opportunity to earn more
Another reason for doing online jobs is that you get paid per project. If you do more, you will earn more. If your priority is to make more money, you can work harder. Take unnecessary activities out of your daily schedule to be more productive. If you focus on the projects, you will do more in a day.
You can improve yourself
When you worked on the same day job for a long time, you become complacent. You don't strive for improvement anymore. You believe that you can do the job even with closed eyes. As a result, you don't grow professionally. However, if you consider getting an online job, you work on a new skill. You also work on different projects at a time. It allows you to learn something new in every project.
Given these reasons, it's time to consider working online now. Look at the available jobs and see if they're suitable for you. Start small and assess how comfortable you are with the job. You can consider more projects later if you can do them.
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In Linux in order for you to access a device such as a CD Drive or Hard Drive you first need to mount it to the file system, though this may sound silly compared to Windows it is actually a very useful way of doing things.
For instance say a device was not working properly you may was to unmount it if it is conflicting with something else, also you may only want certain devices mounted for certain people that use the computer. When you install Linux it will try to mount all your devices for you and store them in a file called fstab that is located in /etc/fstab.
Before you can mount something you need to know what type of file system you are mounting. For instance if you are mounting another Linux partition it is most likely to be ext2 or ext3 but if you are mounting a Windows Partition it is more likely to be vfat(fat32) or ntfs.
The second thing that you need to know is where you want to mount your device to, normally if it is another partition or cdrom drive you can mount it into the /mnt directory. You cannot mount the same device to the same directory so make more directories in /mnt such as /mnt/windows or /mnt/cdrom that way you know what the device was has been mounted.
All of the information about the file system that you want to mount is stored in the directory /dev/ so when mounting a device you usually specify that directory. The /dev/ directory includes information about the drive you wish to mount but when typing the mount command you also need to specify the file system type. Below shows the directory for each device that is usually in the /dev directory.
/dev/hda ? First IDE Hard Drive
/dev/hda1 ? First IDE Hard Drive ? First primary or extended partition
/dev/hda2 ? First IDE Hard Drive ? Second primary or extended partition
/dev/hdb ? Second IDE Hard Drive
/dev/hdb1 ? Second IDE Dard Drive ? First primary or extended partition
/dev/hdb2 ? Second IDE hard drive - Second primary or extended partition
/dev/cdrom ? CDRom Drive
/dev/cdrom1 ? Second CDrom drive
/dev/fd0 ? Floppy Drive
For example to mount devices in the console type:
mount ?t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
This will mount your cdrom to /mnt/cdrom, be careful if you have more then 1 cdrom as it might be /dev/cdrom1 etc. iso9660 is the file system used by cdroms.
Mount ?t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows
This will mount the windows partition to /mnt/windows. The /dev/hda2 refers to the second partition on the first IDE hard drive.
Mount ?t /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
This will mount the floppy drive to /mnt/floppy , if the floppy is a default linux floppy you do not need to specify a file system.
It?s a well-known fact that I can?t get enough of playing Civilization 3 so when the add on pack Play the World was released it was a must purchase. I had already heard mixed reviews from Gamespy slating the multiplayer features but I thought I would give it a try.
My first impressions were good when taking a quick look through the manual while the game was installing. There seemed to be quite a few new features including new races, new technology and new functions. However once I loaded up the game and started a single player game I was a bit disappointed about the lack of new in game features, there were many changes to units such as workers and there are plenty more scenarios but playing Play the World didn?t seem as much different as I expected from playing Civilization 3.
The next area I tried to was play an online multiplayer game, this took quite a while to connect and establish a game. I thought the interface was nice and the game got going a lot quicker then I expected considering how long it would take you to do a normal civilization 3 game. The game lasted for a couple of hours before my opponent left suddenly, I presume because of a computer crash.
This is a game that is cannot be played on a dialup especially if you get cut off every 2 hours, you also need a lot of patience to get a good game going online. Its still early days for playing Civ 3 online and im sure a lot more people will still want to buy the game.
Overall I thought civ3 needed a lot more features on the single player side however if you like the idea of playing civ3 online then go for the game otherwise spend a few minutes downloading some patches from the net.
[Last edited on December 29, 2002 at 9:43:02pm by epytotorp]
More and more good software is becoming open source and OpenOffice.org is no exception. OpenOffice is very similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint apart from it doesn't cost ?600. OpenOffice is based on Star Office 5.2 distributed by Sun Microsystems, the aim of OpenOffice is to continually develop an office suite that will work on any operating system and is free, unlike Microsoft Office.
I decided to test OpenOffice 1.0.1 on Windows and Linux to see if and how it contended against Microsoft Office. The first thing I tested was how the program installed, the windows installation was very easy, the Linux installation was slightly harder, however this is normally expected in Linux, this may be made easier if more rpm's were available. Overall for installation it was very easy and did not come up with any errors on either Windows 2000 or SuSE 8.
Word Processor
It looks similar to Microsoft Word, and has many of the features MS Word has. It took a while to get used to the new layout and to find where everything was, for instance word count is not just in tools, you have to go file > properties > statistics. Also inserting tables is different but in some ways easier.
There were a few extra features that I thought made OpenOffice better in some ways such as predictive writing, which if you have words that you type often it would automatically put this word up for you, If you didn't want the word you kept typing the word you wanted otherwise if you hit return you got the predicted word. This I found very useful however you had to be careful that you weren't using the same adjectives in the same sentence too often.
Spreadsheet
This worked very similar to excel and I could do many of the graphs and work that I would normally do in a spreadsheet. It did maybe lack a few of the very advanced features but as I didn't really need these features it didn't bother me. I do not do a lot of work in spreadsheets however I found OpenOffice very easy and nice to use.
Presentation
The first thing I noticed when starting a presentation was that there were no nice background templates such as you would find in Powerpoint that make your presentation look nice even when the content is ****. The animation was very easy to do and i made a short slide show in very little time at all.
Conclusion
One feature of MS office I didn't miss at all was the paper clip that pops up and does general annoying stuff, this is one thing OpenOffice does without and it does it well! Another handy feature I found was that when I installed OpenOffice for Windows it put an icon in the system tray, I thought originally that it would get in the way but it was actually a really good feature for easy access to work and creating documents.
Another feature I liked was that whether I booted to Windows or Linux I didn't have to worry about getting to know different programs to edit documents, once you had learn't the basics to OpenOffice I could easily carry on with my work where every I was. One feature that I did think needed work on was that of the spell checker, it failed to convert some of my simple mistakes such as changing ?i? to ?I?.
Overall I was surprised at how good OpenOffice is and I would recommend the Windows and Linux version to any home user. For commercial use maybe StarOffice would be a better option for support reasons and at ?30 for a copy its still a lot cheaper then MS Office.
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