I found myself in a position 5 months ago where I had no idea where I wanted to work and when I went for interviews, people didn’t want to employ me because they thought I would get bored. I approached my client on a whim in a similar way, with a trial period and what I can achieve and decided to start my own business..it is now going great and have proved myself invaluable to my client, who is now using my services on several other projects.

Would like to add that event organisers can do the freelance thing as well!

Events are also a good source of creating a job – either increasing your personal brand equity, increasing your networks and/or having an extra stream of income (if you’re lucky). There has now been three instances where I have created a job via events – first was last year (I created an online department), second was an event coordinator role (they had none previously and I started off doing work experience and choosing to do events) and another involved the online presence of another event.

I wonder how many agencies like Sticky there are that would take on a Canberra-based (but fairly well connected and hopefully perceived as smart) social media and community director? Given recent hires in Sydney, there must be a few…