These days wherein the economy is as shady as a weather report, you never know if you are going to survive on your desk job or lose it the next day. Simon talks about the importance of diversifying your writing experience to give you a safety net whenever another economic crisis arises.
So how do you exactly diversify your writing experience? Companies out there are high on the look out for potential employees who can deliver a wide variety of output. Just like any job out there, you need to develop more skills and knowledge under your field to make yourself competitive and indispensable. Take time out to discover more of what you could do and what you could deliver - whether it is an editorial, blogging, or part of advertising and marketing. Just make sure that you have passion and interest in it because it would show in your job performance and work output.
As what Simon said out of her experience, there would be times wherein you would have to put on leg in and one leg out of the door in your day job during times of economic crisis. You never know when you would still be working full time or start on the road to freelance. It never hurts to start practicing what you have never done before. For example, if you work on an advice column on a newspaper you can actually start creating a blog about it or come up with webinars teaching what you know to people who would pay you for your knowledge and expertise.
According to Simon, desk jobs nowadays are contracting as home-based jobs and businesses are booming especially on the travel writing industry. This has created a lot of freelance opportunities, which is to say that the more diversified your CV or portfolio is, the more you can expect that people from all over the world can find you online and pay you for what you can do.
It’s about time that, as a short-term or long-term decision, to make the transition from the usual office job to setting up your own office at home. We may begin to see the future of how our world will be - wherein everyone sets their own time and work in their own pace and creating a living out of the opportunities presented to us by the World Wide Web.
CatchFriday.com Catch Friday Media Limited 2011
Catch Friday Media is an online news service that featured in the December 2011 Issue of the Australian In The Black Digital Media Magazine.
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