Barter/Job Opportunities

AS of 3/07 (if you are seeing this later the list may have changed)

I am looking for a number of people to assist with different things who live within driving distance of Sierra Madre (Pasadena area) CA. This is a great way to earn money to pay for Reiki training or sessions for you and your family. I can also pay you in cash, but I will pay you a higher barter rate than a cash rate.

Please email me if interested with some discussion of your experience and schedule.

The Celestial Seas Astrology Website.

I am looking for one or more Experienced people to work with Jeff and I on the Celestial Seas website. We are just about done working with our php astrololger program to get the guts of the chart to work, but we need help with user interface, site design, adding payment and some system functionality. I have been working on it with dreamwearver but I really dont have the experience to do it will or efficently. My first priority is to make the website able to function as a standalone application on a laptop, which involves copying over the database to a test server on a PC..

Food Prep /Cleanup - Reiki Explorer Retreat

I am running the Reiki Explorer retreat at the end of April. As a residential retreat we need to provide food. I would like to have 1 person volunteer to organiaze this, including menus, grocery shopping, overseeing prep, serving and cleanup. Previous experience would be very helpful.

I would like to have a few other people volunteer for actually working at the retreat, in food prep, greeting people, general cleanup, etc. with a discount off the retreat based on the number of hours they work.

I am also considering doing a "Wedding Party" at my house or the house of a friends on July 13 or 14th and if we do it this way, would appreciate similar help.

Housekeeping / Boxing Stuff / Gardening

I need some help from people not afraid of a challenge. The house we rent is in one of the most beautiful areas of Sierra Madre, but the house is a mess. Originally Jeff's family moved here under unhappy circumstances. After his dad died and sister got married, Jeff's mom moved in with her mom (Jeff's grandmother) in Cambria. Because of this, we live in a big house where several rooms are filled floor to ceiling with his mom's stuff.

To anyone else in this kind of situation, I highly recommend my solution, Digital Photography. You put a number on a box, and the same number on a little square of paper. You photograph a bunch of stuff with the number in the middle. You put the stuff in the box. Then we bring his mom the pictures and she can quickly look throgh the pictures and decide what boxes tokeep and what not too (whole boxes only) We then either bring the boxes up to her in Cambria, or we bring them to a local charity.

I need help boxing/photographing things, getting the boxes neatly stacked in the house and bringing others to the storage area, going through the boxes in the storage area she has said we don't need to keep and giving them to charity.

Housecleaning is also not my strong suite, especially with as much travel as I do, and time I spend writing and working on my computer. This would also be great if someone could give me a hand.

Gardening is in the same category. I have some ideas on what I would like to see happen, but I need someone with experience to put in a watering system, and design something cool and implement it, plust some other people to help make it happen.

Whoever works with us also needs to be able to be somewhat diplomatic about his mom's stuff as well as careful not to misplace, especially when cleaning, papers Jeff or I need.

Dog Walking/ Cat-Dog Sitting

Jeff or I periodically travel and need someone to cat and dog sit. We like to have a list of a number of possible people, so that if someone is out of town we have people to call on.

Personal Assistant / Clerical Help

Currently Kiersten Garrison is acting as my assistant, but she is often busy with her family, job and own life. I need someone to work with me and/or Kiersten every week or every other week. Some of these duties to be split between you, me and Kiersten, depending on her/my/your availability. You might also be doing some work for Jeff Walters and his astrology business. If you can do some of the duties below, but are not sure about others, just talk to me, because as I said, we will flexibly divide the work between us, and train you on what you don't know. This may be one or several people.

Data entry of receipts into Quickbooks for tax purposes.

Mailing out certificates, student tests and reviews

.I'd like to get an online store going, which would require someone to recieve orders, verify payment, and ship orders, and do customer support. A place to store some backstock would be a plus.

The ability to use/program the store software would be a real plus.

Filing paperwork, and updating my file system

Cross posting my newsletter (or links to it) on myspace, tribe etc.

Assisting me on line and offline with publiciaing my forthcoming book.

Setting up book signings and special appearances.

Doing some student and session call backs.

Checking my voicemail for me when I am out of the country.

Working to get Jeff better organized with his astrology business and general mail. (This will require some delicacy, diplomacy and a lot of patience)

Taking my list of class dates and updating (adding new/deleting old) on the Reiki Mastery website, my Eudora account, the ICRT reikitlc progam.

Sending out mail.

Inventoring/reorder of my cabinet sized store at my teaching location in Sierra Madre. Making it neat again after class/healing nights.

Copying Class packets and putting into folders.

Keeping enough class manual and seals in stock for my classes.

Writing up some kind of manual of duties, so if the job transitions to someone else in the future, I have something to give them.

Documentation Assistant

I would like someone who can assist Jeff and myself with written documentation, proof-reading, editing. Also have the ability to take a detailed outline or description and filling in the details. Experience required.