Freelancing - It's Skills, not Age, that Matters

I met an English woman in the supermarket yesterday. I don't 'know' her exactly - she's just another English person, and we made a decision when we came here that we were not going to get into the 'let's ignore the French and just enjoy the country ex-pat scene' - but we usually say 'hello' in passing.

Anyway! Somehow we got to talking about who was doing what and where, and it turned out that she freelances - partly from here at home, and sometimes 'on site' in Britain.

She gave me a lot of useful addresses, and I'm including some of them, but the most important thing is that there are many, many websites where you can learn about freelancing, advertise yourself your skills - and find jobs! - just by typing 'freelancing UK' or 'freelancing USA' into Google. In the meantime - start here:

http://www.freelancersintheuk.co.uk/

http://www.freelancers.net/

http://www.freelanceadvisor.co.uk/

http://www.elance.com/

I was particularly interested in elance.com because it asked a very important question - 'What can you elance?' I thought about it, typed in boxes - and was surprised to discover that I DID have things I could 'elance'.

I think that maybe a lot of people don't appreciate that their skills are valuable. And, by the way, freelancing seems to be about skills, not age. I ticked an awful lot of boxes today, and got an awful lot of thumbs up - but nobody said, "Excuse me. Did you say 1947?"

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Try it! What can you lose?

Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com/