Flexible Working Life

This a guest post by the wonderful Nacie Carson.  If you haven’t already, I suggest you visit her fabulous site and learn about The Life Uncommon.

Authenticity and The Life Uncommon

Earlier this year I did something a little drastic: I quit my corporate job in finance to work full-time as a freelance writer.  My time in the rat race had taught me many things about myself and my life goals, the most important of which was that I did not want to spend a single second more denying my passion for writing because I was afraid I couldn’t support myself with it.  I had taken the corporate job for no other reason than the promise of financial and vocational security, and after only a few months of work those reasons weren’t enough to overcome the creeping, guilty feeling that I had sold out.

After months of pseudo-self-destructive attempts to mask this discontent with lots of eating, spending, and drinking red wine, I decided I needed to do something dramatic to turn myself around.  So I began squirreling away savings, freelancing part-time, and working on addressing the mindset that allowed me to veer so far off course.  I picked my last day in the rat race, known to me as my liberation day, [Read more]

As I work from home and have a boisterous four year old to deal with, I jumped at the chance to review this book for Trashionista hoping for lots of ideas and advice. I’m happy to say that I wasn’t let down.

The title and by-line ‘Inspiring Ideas for making money when you have kids’ is tackled from all angles in a practical and realistic manner. The 10 Chapters cover a wide range [Read more]

At just sixteen, Phil Johns is enjoying a successful freelance career as a graphic and website designer.
He tells us how he got started and gives advice for anyone else who wants to start up a freelance career.

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“I first got started in the creative side of graphic and website design when I got into photography - I wanted a website to show off my work. [Read more]

Geoff Goble, supporting artiste, shares his story of how he became an actor and the flexible working lifestyle he enjoys when not on screen.

“I started my working life in banking, way back in 1963, transferring to the bank’s computer department in 1969 until 1973.

After 4 years in the computer department of a local manufacturing firm, in 1977 I joined a software house, and continued working in the IT industry, latterly as a freelance IT consultant analyst/programmer between 1987 and 2003, when I retired from that work.

I had been interested in theatre since my childhood, and, encouraged by my younger daughter (then 11, and now working professionally in the theatre as both deputy box office manager and independent producer), I joined a local amateur dramatic society in 1994, and have continued performing, directing, scriptwriting, stage managing, lighting and set design with many local theatre companies ever since. [Read more]

A few weeks ago, I posted up an opportunity about working as a web based text researcher. As I’ve never actually done the job, the information I had on it was pretty limited. But now, thanks to Paul, who works full time from home as a web based researcher, here is a little more about what the job is really like.

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Last week Flexible Working Life posted an article on working as a web based researcher. As I work full time as a Texpert for Texperts I’d like to give a little more information about what the job entails.

The service revolves around customers texting a question from their mobile phones to 66000 and getting an answer in minutes, charged at £1. The charge means that customers can get an accurate answer from a real human, and some of that money is used to pay researchers a decent wage. It isn’t a way to get rich quick, but it pays a realistic wage unlike dabbing with online surveys, and it is zero risk which can’t be said for buying stock to sell on Ebay. [Read more]