Cha-Cha-Cha

Joanie (a friend from my previous job, who, incidentally is a fabulous salsa dancer) convinced me to enroll in salsa lessons about 4 months ago. I am nearly completing Basic 3 Salsa mastering the cross-body, Susie-Q, broken left and side step and it is A LOT better than my college ballet class (where I cried every class). I still need to get to the clubs and put my smooth moves to the test, but in the meantime the salsa classroom has been a welcome distraction from my job-searching.

I have to admit that this article is not about the Cha-Cha-Cha, or any other latin dance. It is about ChaCha, a new and amazing wireless research service and I have decided that I would be the perfect ChaCha Guide.

"ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes."

Wow. I can get paid for sitting in my apartment, drinking coffee, petting my cats and finding answers to people's questions. At .20 cents per answer I estimate that I might be able to bring in around $12.00 an hr. and stay in my pajamas. Now we're talkin' !!!

I visited the ChaCha website and completed an application:

"I love research and I love helping people. Friends from graduate school can attest to my nerdy-bookish quest for finding information and applying it to papers, lectures and finally a doctoral thesis. As a ChaCha guide, I would use my savvy internet research skills to find answers to questions and provide prompt, pithy, accurate answers to users' inquiries. But, I am also not afraid to use my personality. You can count on me to handle any question in a professional manner with some spunk."

ChaCha receives thousands of inquiries for ChaCha Guides weekly, so it is unlikely that my 270 words will make it to Human Resources. In the meantime, back to craigslist.com . . .