I am no longer an English teacher, wow, I think that deserves a celebratory podcast! Working full-time from home now as a translator and jack of various other trades (web design, writing… podcasting!…)
Slightly concerned about going mad with no-one to talk to all day – anyone out there who works from home got any tips on that? So far so good anyway.
Sparkles
4 Aug 05 at 12:42 pm
Top tips for working from home:
1. Get an ‘office space’ and ‘office hours’ – have a routine where you will be sitting in front of your work away from the tv and kitchen table during certain hours
2. Get a laptop and join all the other freelancers in Starbucks. Works best when you have short projects to get through
3. Take the opportunity to join at least one breakfast or lunch club – its great for networking, something you can’t do as easily when you’re working for the man on his dollar and stops the solo insanity. Of course, if there aren’t any breakfast clubs out there, you’ll have to start your own
4. Try to avoid getting suckered into reading random people’s websites because you got bored and started surfing the web!
Enjoy
Jt_skip
4 Aug 05 at 4:46 pm
Look forward to more podcast! Best of Luck with the working at home
SpainExpat
10 Aug 05 at 1:29 pm
I used to go around to different cafes where they had wifi Internet (either the cafe’s or a neighbour’s), spend a few hours in each and you’re getting out of the house, getting to know the neighbourhood and you become a bit of an icon. You’ll need a laptop of course. But don’t do Starbucks… we’re in Spain for God’s sake!
Congrats on ditching the English teaching (I guess), it’s a rough going sometimes…
This breakfast/lunch club thing sounds interesting… perhaps Barcelona needs one of these.
Cheers.