Today I am going to write a post I should have written about twenty years ago, because it would have saved me a lot of hassle.
I have had some astonishingly hostile treatment at work, even when avoiding contact with other workers. I took to doing jobs that involved little to no contact with them some time ago.
Ironically, graduating was career suicide for quite a while. As a student it is assumed that you are available for under-employment. After finishing you are suddenly considered a threat, and I am not the only person that has had to remove qualifications from my CV in order to eat.
Basically if you find yourself in this position, it is time to look at the jobs you want to be in in five years and start listing the qualifications these jobs require. Sometimes it is surprisingly doable to simply go and get those qualifications and then await the right opportunity.
It may seem like madness to invest in more education when your education is stopping you from finding a job to even keep you ticking over, but as with all things, an element of fantasy is important when pursuing your dream, whatever that may be.
Sometimes your dream may be non-work related, in which case you may prefer to simply look at salary levels and decide that way. If your particular dream is time restricted (you aren’t going to be doing much pop singing at retirement age, for example) then it needs to be a job that you can do whilst pursuing your non-career dreams.
You may also find that your dream finds you. There is at least one chef out there that worked with me as a musician who had just quit his degree, and found that cooking was as creative, if not more so, than his band. The one I am thinking of went grey fairly quickly, so I am not sure how well he eventually did with the music.
This year, since I am kicking an almost passive income stream off, in the form of possibly marketing supermix in its reductionist form (although I see someone has done a 45 ingredient version called Super Elixir) and potentially selling some books and games, my priority is thinking about marketing.
Next year I am likely to be thinking about production again, as I have rather a lot of work to do to get where Ina is going.
Budget is likely to be a significant issue, so it will be interesting to see how I get on under serious time restriction, especially as I have no intention of abandoning the Boris project.
A few legal issues to deal with, so if I am quiet for a few days, worry not I shall return shortly.
Ina