How Did The Crisis Happen To Me?

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 10:27 pm

More and more as I get to grips with my own financial position and difficulties experienced in recent years, I am coming back to bigger picture again. I am not saying I am not responsible for the financial difficulties I have had, but that I am increasingly aware of how my actions echo the behaviours of so many others out there – particularly in this UK so-called ‘home-owning democracy’.

When I took on my mortgage, I never expected to have protracted challenges to earning… Although I lost my well-paid job at the beginning of the 2008 crash; although I knew it was difficult to get work in the Valleys of South Wales, I believed I was educated and experienced enough to gain employment again.

But my skills have been in those replacable or expendable types of work. I learnt secretarial skills. I developed administerial skills and used my communication skills to build bridges between middle class institutions and those people from my own working class traditions, falling back on these basic skill sets for a good part of my working day.

Job growth, however, is a busted flush for many like me, who sat in the middle of the skilled sector.

MY efforts to learn whole new skills and create my own work and even seek self-employment have been out of some understanding that I might never secure a job again, even if I had have wanted to – which actually, I didn’t.

I have played for high stakes, but finally, my strife and stretches are paying off. Going online and putting my skills and experience out into the international market online has saved my bacon!

I am still selling my skills as before, but in a more creative way and in a way that brings me closer to where I want to be and closer to those, with whom I want to play.

The game is leaner and meaner, but my skills are being honed even more keenly than ever before. My crisis has happened and -who would have believed it! – I am coming out stronger than before.

My consultation and marketing skills are better than ever before. The question is now, how far are we through the present big picture of economic crisis and even more importantly, how will the Swiss economy, on which I now depend for the bulk of my freelance income?

How self-sustaining and sustainable is my income right now? I am still dependent on an economy to some degree linked into the European economy. Growth in the economy of my contract provider will be key. I find myself getting curious about a country I never before had any interest in and always believed was the homeland of the truly rich… That’s as may be.

But I am not so foolish as to believe that there are not businesses going ot the wall there too. I am having those conversations during the course of my work.

This awareness is making me even more keen and committed to giving my contract provider added value, offering copywriting consultancy and content, which wil guarantee greater degrees of success for him over his competitors.

I am digging deeper daily and learning all the time… Always with my eyes beyond on other prizes and other streams of income. I am hyper-aware that to depend on one single work provider is a risky strategy.

Even as I work my brain to death daily to produce wealth for another, I am continuing to spread my efforts to a bigger market in order to run with the dynamic of tapping into a global market to survive. Online is the only way for me to get through the crisis at home.