Will work for money too!
Srsly … hire me?
five jobs, no income…
02 Wednesday Jun 2010
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02 Wednesday Jun 2010
Wish I could honey pie – can barely afford to hire myself. Crapola.
I met one of the guys from G2Bristol today, while serving scones with jam and cream to the Mayor (see twitpic). He said that you were so helpful to his girlfriend when she visited Seville – we had little moment together thinking how wonderful you are. Its not money, but its something. xx
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Hey, I remember them! And the girlfriend even invited me to meet them for drinks one night but I couldn’t make it. Yeah, I’m always doing stuff like that. Like setting you up on Twitter and connecting you with G2Bristol. I actually do that for a lot of people.
I’m also putting in a solid 8-hour day or more … and okay, there isn’t NO income, just hardly any. It’s just getting to me, you know? Every morning I get up and hope that I’ll catch a break. Because I DO really have five jobs going, and I work on them every day (can’t remember the last time I actually took a whole day off), but I need to pay my rent too. Flatmate Nog is no help there as he has lost most of his students and won’t have any work at all in the summer. So he’s not even paying his way anymore.
For the past two months I’ve only had two English classes a week (people away on holiday, work stuff, etc). And as with Nog, I won’t have any classes after this month. My new social media job is still there for now, but I worry that my client is too preoccupied with other things to continue (though I think I’ve done a very good job so far!). I may be able to get the store set up by July, but it looks like I won’t be able to afford to open until September. Got one more tapas tour lined up for this month – that UK contact who promised me a dozen tours between June-December didn’t come through. And I keep working on Sevilla Tapas and the other related websites because I may actually be able to get some advertising income if I focus azahar-sevilla.com on Seville info (have already started making changes there).
Meanwhile sometime this month I may be told I have to go back on chemo, or worse, that I am no longer treatable. No, I don’t dwell too much on this or else I wouldn’t get out of bed … and I certainly wouldn’t have so many projects going. But it’s still there.
Anyhow… this morning the student I’d hoped was coming back this month said she had to wait another week or so due to health problems (and was sure that she wouldn’t be taking classes in July & August) and the extra class I’d hoped to pick up this afternoon cancelled due to a last minute business meeting. And then I wrote this post.
It was actually meant to be a bit humourous, but judging on how everyone has stayed away in droves I think I kind of blew that one. Whatever. This was my today. I did get a lot of other stuff done, but I didn’t make a bean.
Wish I could be there for your Spanish event tonight!
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I only just logged on, so I wasn’t staying away even in small groups.
I have had days when I worked until I dropped and banked about a fifth of what I worked for because people were cashing in gift certificates or the tail end of a package bought a year before and even though I got the money back then, I was looking at the mortgage due Thursday. It’s a special kind of suck.
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Yeah, I used to get that sometimes when several people did their recuperation classes all at once. That sucks too.
I keep thinking that all this work I’m doing now HAS to pay off sometime … just hope it’s soon.
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I’ve only just seen this post, too, so I wasn’t staying away. But it sure sucks to be working so hard and earning so little. I was a freelance artist for a year and worked my arse off – had two successful exhibitions, but still didn’t earn enough or regularly enough to make it anything less than the most worrying and stressful time of my life. I ran, screaming, back to permanent employment after 12 months so I salute anyone who exists in a ‘freelance’ employment way.
I keep thinking “next month I’ll be able to start putting a little money aside” because I have no pension or savings, but then there’s always an unexpected expense, even after I’ve paid off each year’s trip back to the UK.
Money. Its a pain. I say we go back to a bartering society. We’d all be much better off.
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Working freelance has its ups & downs, that’s for sure. Thing is, I don’t see that I have much option at this point. 53 1/2 years old with dodgy health and a patchy resume … not exactly what employers are looking for. Also, I think unemployment is up to 20% here nationwide – and probably higher in Andalucía – so there aren’t many employment opportunities out there. But I could do freelance writing, teaching, translating, social media … and probably lots of other things I haven’t thought of yet.
Yeah, I’ve been doing that for the past 25 years…
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And yet, my post about working for food irritated you.
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