I guess for those who often sit in an office looking at my blog, they must think that I live the life of reilly. I am out on the hill nearly all the time, have long holidays and never rarely seem to actually do anything that resembles the average 9 to 5 grind. Which in part is true. As a freelance instructor operating in hub of outdoor learning that is Snowdonia, I can tell you that getting work can feel very competitive. The average leader of a group on the hills round here probably has at least an MIA and years of experience.
As such from time to time you have to spend a bit of time looking for work and creating opportunities. So whilst I was down from scotland I have spent the last few days trying to get some work together. I now have a few days at Plas Y Brenin later this month, as well as some other days starting to come in. It a side of the work that I am not the best at, as I simply hate to pester people for work, however at this time of year you need to start to look keen, and get your face about.
So today I have email some images about the internet, UKC used one in a news report, contacted my publisher about the sales of my book, which seems to be going well. Although I know a lot of people out there are ‘going to buy one soon’, get out there now as there is no time like the present to start working on those improvements. I also ran into Andy Newton in the high street, and he has an ML training on the horizon that he’s like me to work on. If you’d like to book on a course with me then you can visit Snowdonia Mountain Guides.
All in all the work front is looking encouraging for this time of year, and it will be nice to have some money going into my rapidally diminishing reserve of cash. Afterall I have to find a place to live at the beginning of march!