Losing Sleep

Over ten years ago, I suffered a few years of un and under-employment. During that time I took all sorts of jobs, anything I could get. I worked in stores, cooked, sold bagels, did miscellaneous and menial office work.

Then, just over eleven years ago, I was offered a "rescue" job to teach English. I had never taught English before, but, miraculously I succeeded and then did a professional retraining course to get a teachers licence.

I had some really good years teaching, but then for various reasons I found myself burnt out. The difficult, unpredictable and unreliable traveling to and from work, plus difficulties unrelated to me that the school was going through, succeeded in "burn-out." I just couldn't take it any more. I felt that my health was on the brink. They offered to fire me, and I accepted it. No early pension. Unemployment compensation will soon end.

I'm going to need a way of earning money. I don't have the physical stamina I had twelve-thirteen years ago. I'm at an age when I should be retired from work. I can't just "take any job."

It's starting to affect my sleep.

I do have knowledge and skills. Obviously, I can write. I take good photographs. I can teach basic computer use. I once took a "Life Coaching" Course; I just never had the guts/confidence to set myself up in the business, though I've helped numerous people. And of course I can teach English, though controlling a difficult or large class is beyond me.