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Can I Outsource My Life?

Oh little tortilla blog, how you have been neglected!  I have been too preoccupied and entertained with my new project, The Flight Attendant Life.  Also, with my recent trips to Barcelona and Hawaii, that has left little time to even think about tortillas (and I feel guilty about that).

I’ve realized that what I thought would be a little project of transferring my website to another host and figuring out SEO stuff so Google can find me, is too technical and completely over my head for me.

I was getting so frustrated that my fun and creative project was turning into this dreaded task.  This was supposed to be a hobby, not a chore!  I wasn’t going to deal with this mess, so I found a solution, or what I hope is a solution.  Jury is still out.

Enter the beautiful world of outsourcing and my new exploration into finding other people to do stuff for me.

I recently read a book titled My Life As An Experiment by AJ Jacobs.  Jacobs spends every month engaged in radical lifestyle experiments, from always telling the truth (i.e. You are fat), pretending to be a beautiful women, to outsourcing his entire life.  He outsources disagreements with his wife, interactions with co-workers and editors, and basically anything that he can.  Obviously, he’s going for the humor of it all, but outsourcing is a convenient and efficient way to accomplish tasks, especially in our digital world.  It doesn’t matter so much if the person you are working with is sitting next to you or in Mumbai.  These days more “conversations” happen through text messages than in a verbal manner anyway.

Many individuals as well as large and small companies outsource.  It makes sense.  Why pay $50 an hour for someone to complete a project when you could pay $8?  And, these freelancers work for themselves or other companies so you are not paying for that individual’s health insurance.

I looked at various outsourcing websites, registered with a few, and settled on working with a company/individual I found through Guru.com.  So far, so good.  I’ve submitted my project, received a quote, accepted the project terms, sent over information, and paid the amount agreed upon through the SafePay system Guru uses.

Now, I’m feeling like I’m living my life as an experiment…huh.

You think we could find someone in India to make tortillas for us?  I’m sick of the factory delays.

Other outsourcing websites:

Elance.com
Freelancer.com
ODesk.com

Tortilla Factory Updates: 2

We are getting closer and closer to opening day.  The equipment was moved into the factory yesterday.  The following are pictures of the latest developments.

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Tortilla Factory Updates

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Here are more up-to-date pictures from the work being done on the factory.

We recently purchased a dough divider that is being shipped from Connecticut. We hope to move the tortilla machine into the space within the next couple of weeks. The goal was to have production going by now, so that Nature’s Food Market & Juice Bar would be able to make their Raw Pumpkin Cheesecakes for Thanksgiving. But, if you contact Wendy at the Market, you may be able to place a special order.

Tim (Created Whole) and Chuck (Nature’s Food Market) have been hard at work everyday getting the place up to health code. If you refer back to a few blog posts ago, you will see what the space looked like a month ago.

In a few weeks we will post before and after pictures.

Our dream is happening!

Website Front Page Photo

This is an option for our front page of our website. What do you think?