Adding another slash to my slash career

They wanted a 5'6'' cartwheeling brunette; I wanted a fun job. We found each other.

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This summer, I wanted to augment my income with some temp marketing contract work.

You know, the odd three months with a £350-£500 day rate, outside of IR35, type of thing.

Outside IR35 just means the company pays you gross, and you sort out your own tax.

I much prefer this type of arrangement as it’s more tax-efficient. I wrote about tax efficiencies for the self-employed, including how I stumbled upon £24K pension money.

… Back to the job search. I started looking at the roles on offer: “Strategise Q4 deliverables,” “Optimise ROI,” “Maximise efficiencies”... All I could think was, this is so not for me.

It was like a language I no longer spoke.

After years of living the good slash career life, I’ve become too existential to work for questionable companies tangled up in KPIs, audits, and endless “touching bases”. I just can’t do this anymore.

I feel just as disillusioned as this TikTok girly.

I like to have fun. And I like money. I want both.

Because when I’m having fun, I’m unstoppable.

The energy flows, the ideas come, and yes, the money follows too.

It’s a beautiful cycle that keeps feeding itself.

I, naturally, stopped looking for marketing gigs, and I decided that I want to find work that makes me feel alive.

Something occasional or temporary that I can do alongside my other commitments.

And guess what? The universe delivered.