Originally posted by cowpat:
Hi all,In a serious rut at the moment. Working freelance in online marketing and need to get more work, but the motivation is not there. It's always hard to muster up the motivation. I will,obviously,as I have to source more work.I have never really been into it. It's always been a means to an end. I suppose it's been harder since I have been doing it freelance, as I am expected to network and hustle for work. This is something I'm just going to have to do.I have been thinking for the last 3 or 4 years of changing "career". Use the skills I already have built up and channel it into something else.I have been thinking about the Open University option, as I just can't afford to go back full time, and lose out on what little I am earning now!I always liked languages, and speak French,Italian, and am learning Spanish.
"Emigrate" could be the first thing you might suggest if I like languages.I have looked into maybe studying Italian,as I never studied it. I learned it from living there. But I can't find anywhere yet that offers a distance learning option.So, skills would be languages, technical writing background, and online marketing skills.Essentially, my languages are wasted on me and have been for quite a while. I suppose, unless I am in London or Paris, they are going to be. Not much use for them in Limerick I think!! But I would like to use them in some capacity.I had threatened to a teaching dip for the last 5 years,but don't think it's for me. I think I would have done it by now...It's going to be up to me to decide what to do, but I feel like I am drifting along at the moment, not sure of any angle I could use.