Category: Work
What Nobody Tells You About Working From Home
Working from home – or earning a living working from anywhere, therefore allowing you to travel while working – is definitely glorified in our culture. When I tell people about what I do they often say I’m lucky or that it must be nice….
Happy One Year Anniversary to Oh My Mermaid!
Well it’s officially been 365 days since I launched this blog. I’d planned and planned and one year ago today I launched with the full roster of social media accounts to connect people with this blog and share what was happening with this project….
2019 Preview
Can you believe we’re already here? Prepping and planning and celebrating the arrival of 2019? I can’t. It’s been a crazy year and I am so excited to tell you about just a few of the things I have planned for the upcoming year….
2018 In Review
It’s hard to believe I’ve been working on Oh My Mermaid for a year now. Originally I started developing this project back in January and the 1st post went live January 16th 2018. I posted 3 things that day because I felt the need…
What’s your Personal Brand
One of the biggest mindset shifts that has helped me successfully make a living by essentially freelancing services that I’m interested in providing is thinking of myself as managing a personal brand. In this mindset, any service I provide – anything I do in…
Carmen in Canada’s Top Ten Tips for Teaching Online
As I was writing “working with less” and thinking about what we as online teachers put out there to other potential online teachers, and each other, it got me thinking. I said with that post that you shouldn’t be intimidated by veterans and the…
Working with Less
So if you’re out there doing your research about working from home, especially as an English teacher, you might notice the same trend I do: over-freaking-complicating what’s physically needed to do this job. If you watch online videos about teaching online you’ll see crazy class…
