I'm finally making headway on my FHEA application, yay!
So I thought I'd take this lunchtime to investigate potential freelancing gigs I could use to supplement my income since I work very, very part-time for the OU and there do not appear to be many modules I can pick up (not being a computer scientist).
My husband wants to me restart my tutoring. I'm less keen as before I used to do it from my kitchen table and now my husband works from home. I'd have to do virtual only, which works OK for OU students, but is less easy with schoolchildren.
I keep thinking I could probably start editing again.
The only problem is editing generally makes me ill. Panic attack a day ill. It's been so nice to have spent the whole of 2023 and half of 2024 not having a panic attack because I gave it up in December of 2022.
Editing is also problematic as it's so concentrated. The 'average' rate is 10 pages an hour to proofread, 5 to copy-edit. That means the typical academic book is a good month's work - as despite even autistic hyperfocusing I struggle to concentrate entirely on one book at that level for 8 hours every day. There's also the issue that as it's so time consuming I can't do editing and marking TMAs at the same time, it simply won't work. Still I can earn more from one proofreading project than I can earn from a year working with one student.
I hopped onto LinkedIn and looked at the skills that are listed under the Services Offered option of the More button and saw grant writing. I have no experience of grant writing, although I have eyed up two grants/scholarships that I want to apply for this coming academic year. So I did a little googling to find out how to learn to be a successful grant writer so that I might be able to successfully win the grants for myself, with, you know, perhaps the future potential to use those skills to offer my services for payment. I found some professional looking YouTube videos about learning grant writing - they're teasers for a woman's online course and community - at a cost of a mere US$500 a month.
Nice work if you can get it.
So is the woman a successful grant writer or is she actually more successful at selling courses about learning to be a grant writer?
Anyway, I'm going back to that FHEA essay and I'm going to see if the OU library has a book about applying for grants.
Summer Holidays 3: Grant writing
I'm finally making headway on my FHEA application, yay!
So I thought I'd take this lunchtime to investigate potential freelancing gigs I could use to supplement my income since I work very, very part-time for the OU and there do not appear to be many modules I can pick up (not being a computer scientist).
My husband wants to me restart my tutoring. I'm less keen as before I used to do it from my kitchen table and now my husband works from home. I'd have to do virtual only, which works OK for OU students, but is less easy with schoolchildren.
I keep thinking I could probably start editing again.
The only problem is editing generally makes me ill. Panic attack a day ill. It's been so nice to have spent the whole of 2023 and half of 2024 not having a panic attack because I gave it up in December of 2022.
Editing is also problematic as it's so concentrated. The 'average' rate is 10 pages an hour to proofread, 5 to copy-edit. That means the typical academic book is a good month's work - as despite even autistic hyperfocusing I struggle to concentrate entirely on one book at that level for 8 hours every day. There's also the issue that as it's so time consuming I can't do editing and marking TMAs at the same time, it simply won't work. Still I can earn more from one proofreading project than I can earn from a year working with one student.
I hopped onto LinkedIn and looked at the skills that are listed under the Services Offered option of the More button and saw grant writing. I have no experience of grant writing, although I have eyed up two grants/scholarships that I want to apply for this coming academic year. So I did a little googling to find out how to learn to be a successful grant writer so that I might be able to successfully win the grants for myself, with, you know, perhaps the future potential to use those skills to offer my services for payment. I found some professional looking YouTube videos about learning grant writing - they're teasers for a woman's online course and community - at a cost of a mere US$500 a month.
Nice work if you can get it.
So is the woman a successful grant writer or is she actually more successful at selling courses about learning to be a grant writer?
Anyway, I'm going back to that FHEA essay and I'm going to see if the OU library has a book about applying for grants.