Like I said, I’m not one to hang around. We’ve put our house on the market — again. During the summer we were going to sell up and rent, but decided instead to sit tight for a couple of years until Dominic is two years old. We took it off the market at the beginning of September because we had a prospective buyer and we didn’t want to waste her time with a second viewing. In the end she bought a house about five doors away. As you might imagine I was slightly frustrated at having to then put ours back on the market, especially given the way things are out there right now.
I’ve decided to go back to freelance copywriting, PR and creative project management. There’s one school of thought that says I’m screaming mad for going self-employed given the business environment at the moment. But I reckon lots of companies will be cutting costs, and from experience I know one of the first thing they cut back on is their marketing and use of agencies. I can sell myself as being as experienced and as good as any large agency, but loads cheaper. I also have a really good network of friends involved in website design and programming, advertising and marketing design and artwork, so I reckon I’m in with as good a chance as anyone of succeeding. Anyway, you have to be optimistic, after all — someone’s got to do the work, so why not me. The alternative is to get a job. However as someone wrote in a comment to my last posting, I’d have to deal with being ‘too experienced’, for which read too old. I’m 53. Not too old to be a dad for the first time, but pushing it in today’s working world, where experience counts for less than blind enthusiasm, desire and total commitment — the ‘110%’ factor. But that’s another posting. I’ll give it three months, and if I’m getting nowhere then look for a job.
October 3, 2008...12:10 pm
On the market
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