Finally found work that suits me!

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I’m 36 next week! Low-key celebrations ahoy.

I’ll be walking in the hills and enjoying some pub grub. Wow, I really am embracing middle-age.

This is one year that I won’t be spending the entire time dreading going back to work. My whole life I’ve struggled to find work that I can stick at and it made me miserable.

I’ve been in and out of all sorts of different jobs, I’ve been a waitress, a festival performer, a financial administrator. The absolute worst was working in offices. Endless inane small talk. Office politics. Micro-management. Strip-lighting. I do not miss strip-lighting.

My dream is to be a novelist, so I’ll keep chipping away at that one, one terrible short story at a time. In the meantime, I have to pay bills. Like the student debt that I still have. At 35. Yep. I also need to buy basic food essentials, frivolous sparkly things and plenty of treats for the cats.

I’ve finally found a sustainable way to work and it’s such a relief. I’m no longer constantly occupied with hunting for an escape route before I burn out.

I want to let you know what this sustainable way to work is in case you think it might suit you too.

Since January, I’ve been working online. I tutor children and adults in English as a second language and it turns out that I actually love it. The kids are so cute and we have so much fun in the lessons. I’m a word-nerd so I love helping the older kids get to grips with grammar.

Working from home is ideal because I get to manage my sensory environment and I don’t have to deal with any pesky colleagues wanting to chit-chat. I get to choose my own hours so if I need a quiet week, I just amend my schedule. Such. A. Relief.

A company I work at is taking on new tutors and they’ve asked me to help find good candidates. The only requirements are being a native English speaker and having a degree in any subject. The application takes a few minutes and you can book your interview with me. I can help you prepare for the interview and support you through your first classes too.

If you’re interested, send me a DM. I’m so relieved to have finally found work that suits me, I’d love to share that with you.

Are you teaching them Mancunian? Can you teach proper Mancunian to somebody who speaks some other form of English?

Lol, I wish I spoke proper Mancunian! I'm from Cheshire so it's basically RP, what we speak, us from thurr. I've moved to Newcastle now though so maybe I should consider running a course in speaking Geordie...

Seriously though, I also make short videos about idioms and it's great chucking a load of Northern codswallop in there.

Was this my first lesson?

If you learnt something, then I guess so

Don't get the reference

Not sure what to say. Could somebody else help me out with this?

EDIT: Do you recognize the character in the meme? From television.

Nope

All right then. Although according to this the Gene Genie was born in Lancashire somewhere other than Manchester proper, although he is a die-hard City fan. I have always thought his way of speaking was typical of Manchester. Sorry if I was wrong about that.

Quite possibly! Just ain't never seen it. Might look it up.

Sounds like a Quantum Leap for cops?

Would you feel comfortable giving a range of how much it pays, and also how promptly they pay you?

Ya'llreet love?

I'm born and bred Mancunian, glad I moved, it's the feckin armpit of the north. Yorkshires like way friendlier.

Where did you hail from?

Don't think I could teach random sprogs tbh, you teaching adults as well?

Yorkshire's good too, I went to uni in Leeds. I'm from Macclesfield - the armpit that time forgot.

I wasn't keen to work with kids either. Children... I don't get what the fuss is about. But its actually fine. Sometimes they really make me laugh.

I love teaching adult classes though because its more chill and you can have some interesting conversations. Have you done any teaching before?

Sure, no problem!

They pay on the 10th of the month, accounting for weekends. Always on time for me, all been good.

It varies but the hourly pay ranges from around $15 to $22

If you fill out the application then you can see what your pay would be.

You can get higher pay if you have any kind of teaching or tutoring experience. Do you have any?

Nice. My view is that an aspie will often find a job in the end that they like or at least tolerate. Quitting jobs you hate isn't a bad thing, it just tells you what you're not suited to. Many Aspies are put off too quickly by not finding a job they like but it's good to see you found something.