I am a founder and managing director at havingtime.com â a digitally native magazine and a worldwide movement rooted in impactful storytelling; trying to define what it means to live well in the everchanging world.
On top of this, I am a creative and strategic thinking Social Media, Marketing and Publicity Specialist, with 15+ years of experience across a wide range of financial services marketing and communication disciplines.
While speaking to many of you who are keen to move into remote work this year, Iâve been hearing the same common beliefs over and over that are stopping so many of you from beginning to explore opportunities where you could work remotely or start freelancing.
Here are the top 6 common beliefs that might be holding you back right now. We hope we can bust these âmythsâ to help kick-start your remote work or freelancer journey!
This week we speak to multi-hyphenate Zoe Sofair of Virtually Zoe. Zoe is a Virtual Assistant, but also host pub quizzes, am a glitter and UV artist, set up a decluttering and organising business and do occasional event management. In between all of this she is also Community Manager for the London Chapter of Girl Gone International, a worldwide community of 250,000+ international women that was founded in 2010 and now with local communities in over 150 cities.
Read on here to hear about all of her Career Adventures.
Having lived and worked in London for over 10 years, myself and my other half left the hustle of London in May 2017 to travel indefinitely, beginning by basing ourselves in Florence, Italy for a few months. From there we went onto a few months in Lucca, Italy followed by Lisbon, Portugal⊠we slowly travel around while working remotely choosing to base ourselves in different parts of the world for months at a time rather than moving from place to place quickly. We started off basing ourselves across the UK and the rest of Europe â exploring the countryside and spending time in the great outdoors as much as I can.
Youâd be surprised at what roles you could do remotely!
A great place to start is to think about what sort of work you are interested in doing, what work you are good at, and think about if youâd be open to branching out to other things.
If youâre at the start of your exploration into remote work, then youâve come to the right place. Iâve put together a few useful starting points for you to look at here below.
Start here!
You could say that you are on a âcareer adventureâ instead of a career path. Welcome to âChoose Your Own Career Adventuresâ! A âcareer adventureâ interview series coming soon to the Project Anywhere blog where we’ll be charting the joys & challenges, and many different directions our career adventures can take us.
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