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Do you have a friend or two who is so talented in what he/she does so much that you feel you want to be in that place? Have you found yourself asking questions like “where and when does he/she learn further”?

Everyone has a skill or two. Some are easily seen, while others are hidden. Some, where there easily seen or not are well utilized while others are just being “wasted”. Friends who make good use of their skills, talents or gifts are a good inspiration to us all.

The other day, after reading a post by Lainy, I told her what a good writer she is. I must have told her that several times, but what was special about this last time is that for once, I told her exactly why I think she is a good writer.

Lainy, you are such a good writer. Your writing is a perfect blend of conversational, narrative and descriptive.

Today, a friend, Bara Mark (aka Mbarakanamozo) of Bareta Online showed me a newspaper with on of his articles on the front page. Though I was amazed, it was not much of a surprise. I can recall that I have seen his article at the front page of the Eden Newspaper more than once. What is amazing about his writing is the fact that he is not a professional writer. It is just a hobby for him and what he writes is not even close to what he has studied in the University.

Bareta is a young Cameroon studying Microbiology in the University of Buea and currently residing in Buea. If you visit his blog expecting to see some Microbiology related talks, then you are wrong. He calls himself the analyst and believes very strongly in human rights and freedom of speech. He is no politician, but a dedicated student who always aims at leadership roles. If he were to stand for the presidential elections someday, I bet I will be his campaign manager.

Bareta’s most recent article as of today (Tuesday 17th March 2009) is MT.CAMEROON RACE,THE PEAK OF ANGLOPHONE MARGINALISATION. Oh, before I forget to mention, that is the article I saw on the front page of the Eden Newspaper.

Bareta was the very first candidate of Pen 2 Net. I love the courage he took. After making him are that WordPress won’t be the piece of cake that Blogger is, he still accepted my offer of migrating his blog to self-hosted WordPress and accepted a domain name which will be paid for by the Pen 2 Net project as long as his blog remains alive.

I wish I could find more talented Bloggers like Bareta and introduce them to the Blogosphere.

A friend of mine introduced me to a website for employers and freelancers. After registering on the site and writing a few tests, I checked out the marketplace. The jobs there were very interesting and tempting. Found many jobs on article writing, proofreading, copywriting, blog maintenance etc, but for some reason, I was not as thrilled as I thought I would.

I am a Blogger, so normally I must be interested in such deals, why was I not? For some reason, I prefer being paid to write content for my own blog than to do some freelancing and get a few dollars from it and conceal the deal. My blog is mine, and I will certainly write on it more passionately than anywhere else. Secondly, most of these companies that will ay you to blog form them already have a reputation and an agreement that enables more understanding as opposed to some harsh conditions that will be imposed to you by some individuals of one-man companies.

Averagely, a Blogger who has some pagerank and traffic will be paid higher per post, than a freelance poster is paid per hour but the truth is that the poster may get many hours of work and may end up being paid more. There is a lot of limitation on bloggers since they are required to keep a strict portion of paid to unpaid posts.

However, I won’t give up on Odesk. I do believe if I after filling up my profile and adding some experiences / skills, I may meet up with the requirements of most employers and potentially earn far more than what I earn blogging.