Every January for the past few years, I’ve visited my daughters’ school and taken part in the careers fair.
I stand there, like Billy No-mates, alongside people who have more traditional careers or are from big firms that are household names.
But I like doing it as I think I offer something different as my work involves:
- Writing
- Editing
- Blogging
- Publishing
- Web hosting
- Web design
- Web development
- Reading
- Invoicing
- Prospecting (web-based research and writing emails)
I tell kids that the kind of work I do is great if you’re…
- Struggling to work out what you want to do when you’re older
- Up for hard work (that means less TV, social media and gaming)
- Keen to help other people
- Up for more learning (for ever)
- Keen to read lots
- Good at communicating with people (or want to get better at it)
- Even remotely creative or ‘arty’ (eg, you like writing, drawing, playing music, performing)
- Looking to do something with flexible hours
- Thinking of doing/creating something that will always help you, even if you change your mind and decide to do something completely different in the future (what some people like to call ‘pivoting’)
