NS March 13th, 2007

So I’ve been brainstorming and researching and figuring out how I can both earn some money by working at home and also keep doing (unpaid) writing to build up a portfolio. While my sister was here she helped me come up with some ideas for making contacts in the writing world and I’ll be going through that list item by item in the coming week or two, ringing around, emailing, and just generally pestering people and places to give me a chance. I’m cheap! Hell, I’m free!

I did manage to get a story in yesterday’s Londonist, my first one for them. I’m so thrilled that I got to throw in an A Team reference and say “pity the fool!” I’ll post the links here when I’ve got stories up over there. It’s a start!

And again, thanks to my sister who told me of a friend’s sister who does the same thing, I may have a great idea for working at home. Seeing as I love all things internet, online and otherwise wired, I think that being a Virtual Assistant would be perfect for me. Anyone who knows me knows I’m highly organised, a lover of lists and good at nagging, er, reminding people of what needs doing. I can imagine nothing more perfect for me if I could do it part time from home. I’ve got the experience and the skills, all I need is a bit of a home office set up and the sanity required to look after a baby/emerging toddler while working from home, and I’m good to go. Though I guess I also need clients, which might be harder to come by. I’ll also be — EEK!! — self-employed and having to do all the blah-blahdy-blah paperwork and tax stuff that goes along with it. I think I will be spending the next few days on the internet and in the library, figuring out how to set myself up for business.

If I get any more virtual I may just disappear altogether and be a mere hologram of my former self, and then I’d feel contagious, outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. Noble’s my name, no one else is the same. Ooh ooh ooh, N!

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