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Oh My What On Earth Am I Going To Do Next?!

Haha, watch and you’ll find out, it will be more of the same, but bigger and better, and who knows it might even add up to a real job, like growned up peoples have!

If you want to now more, check this out, it will give a good hint at what at least some of what I may be doing next might be. But you never know when something shiny and new (or rusty and old) might attract my attention, and I may go toward something else entirely!

In the meantime, what’s on my mind at the moment? Well, I’ve been considering the idea of actually getting a real job, and earn proper money, instead of the dribs and drabs of the stuff most of us poets are reduced to scrabbling for …

On the other writing platform I use, and use more often that this one, to be honest, but shh, don’t tell WordPress!, well on that other platform, Medium, I posted a piece about this working thing, as in doing a job for real money instead of enough for a cup of coffee, and if I’m luck a blueberry muffin too.

If you’re interested in reading about this working thing take a look here https://medium.com/@kittycordo/unique-ideas-i-have-a-few-3a778806efb6 and I hope you’ll find it interesting!

The article has a photo of me being a curator of the Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Installation, not dressed up neat and tidy but getting stuck into the reality of it, putting on display rusty dusty stuff found out there, along the road I live on perhaps …

You can never know what I might do next, because I’m not sure about it myself, unless it’s on my phone calendar, and I remember to check what it says!

Thanks for being here, come back soon, there may be something new!

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What On Earth Is My Brand?

I’m a Writer, Poet, Editor, Art Installation Collector/Creater/Curator …, Creative Writing workshop presenter. From the first two in that list I make tiny bits of money, occasionally, and for the first, a larger bit of money once a year.

The rest of the items on that list are things I do as a volunteer, or for myself. You could say I’m a Creative, and you would be getting close to the truth, but, but, it isn’t a business, at least not yet it isn’t. The question is though, could I make it a business, and a maybe bigger question is, do I want to make it a business?

These ideas are in my head more right now because I’ve paid a reasonable amout of money to attend a day of ‘small or micro’ business workshops, all in the one place, all with the aim to teach me, and the others attending, how to be better at running their business.

I had a fit of enthusiasm and registered, willingly paying out the money, with barely a thought about whether I could actually call myself someone who was, or could be in business.

I sell my books every now and then, but most often for only enough money to get back the acual money put in to having the book printed. And the editing job I do for fun, well that’s for a monthly newsletter that I put out for free to obtain, but I actually pay money out to get it printed now.

Once upon a time, the newsletter was printed by myself in my job working in a council, then later it was printed by various offices of politicians. But those all fell though, so if I want to have this particular newsletter printed, I have to pay for it myself.

One of the things I do, and enjoy working on. But it doesn’t bring in any money for me, not yet. I’d love to get involved in tourism and show off what I’ve created, and even talk about it all to interested others.

Could that be a business? It would be great if it could be! Maybe I’ll find out how to do that, at the workshops I’m attending on Wednesday this week. Or maybe those baby plans will all flitter away, and I’ll go back to being a volunteer and not think about any ‘I could be in business’ ideas.

We’ll see. It will become clearer, anyway, by the end of the day on Wednesday. I might find a great Mentor who takes me under their wing and shows me what I could do in ways that don’t frighten me! Haha!

Caro the Creative, or something along those lines …