New directions
I have been to see a business adviser about perhaps starting my own business making props and live role playing equipment. Its just an idea but I am fed up with employers making me redundant, of not being good enough for them, of being stuck between jobs waiting for someone to take pity on me and employ me again for a short while before dropping me again.
The only thing I know how to do is IT support and I am hideously ou of date on the tech now, then I realised I had other skills. Writing is something I want to do but that is slow work with maybe no return, so that will go on in the background. TV extra work was fun (look for me in the Goulag in 'Muppets Most Wanted') but is irregular work, so that will do as an additional finance stream. But I have been making larp weapons and props on and off for twenty years, I have a [small] workshop, some supplies, tools, and a five day work experience session earlier this year with a very talented man who was the FX department for the first two series of the new Dr Who amongst maaany othey things. Maybe, just maybe, I can do this.
I am unfocussed, I am easily distracted, and I have to deal with looking after the house, the cats, and my long term ill wife. Its not going to be easy. It may well fail. But at least I will have tried, and when I apply for more jobs and they ask what I have been doing in the huuuuge gap since I was last employed, I can honestly say I was running my own business. Maybe. Have yet to do all the business plans, financial forcasts, cash flow stuff. It might happen.
The only thing I know how to do is IT support and I am hideously ou of date on the tech now, then I realised I had other skills. Writing is something I want to do but that is slow work with maybe no return, so that will go on in the background. TV extra work was fun (look for me in the Goulag in 'Muppets Most Wanted') but is irregular work, so that will do as an additional finance stream. But I have been making larp weapons and props on and off for twenty years, I have a [small] workshop, some supplies, tools, and a five day work experience session earlier this year with a very talented man who was the FX department for the first two series of the new Dr Who amongst maaany othey things. Maybe, just maybe, I can do this.
I am unfocussed, I am easily distracted, and I have to deal with looking after the house, the cats, and my long term ill wife. Its not going to be easy. It may well fail. But at least I will have tried, and when I apply for more jobs and they ask what I have been doing in the huuuuge gap since I was last employed, I can honestly say I was running my own business. Maybe. Have yet to do all the business plans, financial forcasts, cash flow stuff. It might happen.