Keith Graham

I had some inspiration and did some googling and I have discovered that I can run a webserver on a raspberry pi. Why? I am running a dozen websites on an old desktop computer in a cluttered room we call the “cat room”. It has been a storage room for old furniture and the cats have decided it’s a good place to take an occasional piss. The old PC draws about 150 watts. A Pi draws 5 or 6 watts. It makes no sense to leave the old PC running all the time to serve a few simple websites.
I asked Erica for Raspberry Pi 400 for Christmas, so I may be installing a LAMP stack on a Pi on Christmas day. (LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and is a standard web server configuration.)
If I can get it working I will turn off my desktop PC, perhaps for a long time. I will probably only turn it on to do Taxes and write short stories.

I have enjoyed answering surveys from Survey Monkey for a few years now, but I’ve done it for free. I recently found that there are a bunch of sites that will actually pay you a small amount to answer surveys.
I have been doing surveys from one of these sites and I’ve made about $50 a week. I do the surveys with the TV on, and I don’t have to concentrate very hard on either the survey or the TV.
There are many places to get paid for surveys, but I have been using https:/www.prolific.co. It has the disadvantage that it pays out in Great Britain Pounds, but it pays directly to PayPal.com so that it is converted to US Dollars automatically. All of the surveys pay for $10 to $15 per hour. Most surveys take a few minutes. Some surveys take 20 minutes or longer.
I am a preferred survey taker because of my age, but it is still hard to snag a survey. The competition is fierce. Prolific.co has shut down the admission of new users because the users so far outnumber the surveys available. I am hoping that things will settle down a bit and I will be able to answer more than I am doing now.
It is nice to get some money for something that is fun to do. I don’t count this as a job, but I am using the money I make to buy Christmas presents.
It is much better than playing solitaire while watching TV at night.

I sent resumes into a dozen or so job postings and was answered by one of them. A week later they emailed me a ‘thanks but no thanks’ message.
I am bummed out an I will not be trying to find a new job. I think being 70 years old makes this difficult.