So it’s good day/bad day here, but the good days are starting to win out. Phew. I’m still doing the meditation thing, which has calmed me down a bit, and tuning out my brain with what I suppose is a kind of white noise. Since I never know if I’m going to spend my hours crackling with energy or kind of burned out, exercising has been an erratic endeavour…so mostly I run (shuffle-jog-wheeze) to the supermarket 🙂 I must look to be a very hungry individual indeed.
To occupy the rest of my time I’ve been doodling again, finally getting some sleep (huzzah) and, to prevent a hysterical spiral of ‘oh what have I done’ horrors, turning my mind to possible ways of making a living once I’m well again.
Working for yourself seems to be a smart road to travel if you are of a mentally- interesting disposition, since it means you can, within reason, dictate your own hours and terms and potentially work from home (as long as you’ve got some support in case of the occasional brain-burp- could get messy otherwise).
Here are ’10 ways to ditch your job and work for yourself’ courtesy of Entrepreneur.com
The wisest place to start is by playing to your strengths, if your strengths happen to involve mathematical wizardry and a love of spreadsheets you could probably become a freelance book-keeeper; I am rubbish at maths so this won’t feature in any of my plans, but you get the gist.
If you happen to have a passion for the things you’re good at, well, all the better, although if you make it your career it’s still ‘work’ as Forbes’ Chrissy Scivicque explains and this could well chip away at your passion after a while…
Good at arts-and-crafts-y stuff? Champion knitter? Then you already have money-making potential. Etsy is the obvious place to market your goods. You can check out their seller guidance here. For what not-to-do (and a tiny mean chuckle) you might want to also check out Regretsy…the baker’s equivalent is Cake Wrecks which has the power to make me cry laughing-tears.
Having said all that, I’m not sure how much of the above is going to apply to me… although I’m definitely a qualified cake-wrecker & a potential regrets-er. I’ll keep thinking. And occasionally twitching.
Peace x
How To Break B.A.D 