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Income earning skills

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Selling your skills

 

Where do we go from here?

 

Income earning skills? Redundancy, from a company you have perhaps devoted years of loyal service to, or the shock of discovering 'your face no longer fits' or even that work patterns have changed and the company has out sourced your particular skills - call centres to India or manufacturing to China perhaps - can come as a bitter blow, both to your income and to your pride.

Don't let it. Being bitter only hurts you! Instead, take a look at where you are now. Consider what income earning skills have you acquired over the years - and you do have valuable skills, because we all do - and most importantly, how you can profitably apply them to your new life.

What colour was your collar? OK., a poor joke perhaps but the only difference between 'Blue' collar workers and 'White' collar professionals is one of perception. Both look at the other and think 'they have it easy' when the truth is that life is neither fair nor easy for anyone..........

Do you have any bookkeeping experience? Perhaps not at accountancy level, but just straightforward wages and small business accounts. You are so much in demand, you should be walking on air! This one of the great income earning skills and is something where there is a huge gulf between those who can, and those who won't. Let me explain.......

Quite simply, most 'practical ' people hate paperwork. They understand the need for it of course, but they will put it off and then put it off some more. Accounts will, 'at best' be a cardboard box with some or all of the year's receipts tossed in it. Often, invoices aren't sent out promptly, ones that have been are not chased up, resulting in poor cash flow, and the end of every financial year is dreaded because of the compulsory legal tax returns. I know this to be true because I am like it myself and certainly for the last few years, my tax returns have been made at the last possible moment!

It is a fact that small building start-up companies - often one man - are most likely to fail and be made bankrupt. Not because they lack the income earning skills to do their chosen job but because they are unable to control cash-flow.

Conversely, those people to whom paperwork seems to come naturally, envy what they see as the freedom of people who work with their hands and they certainly envy the practical skills they have. It really isn't a joke that some people 'can't put up a shelf without damaging the wall'. Each to our own and let's recognise that here we have a marriage made in heaven.............

Ask around and see who is starting out as a self employed tradesman. Enquire if they might like someone to 'keep their books' for them. Put the usual postcards in shop windows and put an advert in your church or parish machine. Just keep it simple and honest. If you are a bookkeeper don't claim to be an accountant - often, that's counter productive anyway because someone who lacks the confidence to put him/herself into the hands of - what they perceive to be an 'expensive' accountant - will be more inclined to work with you.

And a marriage made in heaven? One man's income earning skills are another man's nightmare. You move in different circles, have different friends and will hear about people wanting small jobs doing. Gardening, plumbing, a small wall building perhaps. Maybe, even that shelf that needs fixing! You are going to know some good tradesman aren't you? Equally of course, those same tradesmen talk amongst themselves and it won't be long before you are being asked if you will 'just take a look' at their books. In this life we all need one another..................

 

 

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