And what do I need to include IN travel writing?

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Writing about foreign countries you have visited, in such a way as to make the reader understand new things about those countries, so he or she can decide whether he/she would enjoy travelling there.

I am a college grad with a Bachelor’s degree and six years of bookkeeping/administrative/customer service experience, as well as supervisory experience. I mostly stumbled into that line of work haphazardly while I was just trying to make some spare change during my school years. I was hoping to switch to a more personally fulfilling career this year, but now rather than figuring things out at my leisure, I’ve been given a strong push to quickly figure out what I want to do since the facility where I worked has shut down and now I am out of work. I have a decent severence package so I still have some time to ponder the situation, but this whole unemployed thing is getting me antsy. Anyway, these are the qualities I have to offer and/or am looking for in a new job:

*While of course it would be nice, I am not really looking nor expecting to make six figures a year. I am more concerned with quality of life and having free time rather than making tons of money. I am willing to forgo luxuries like cable TV as long as I am otherwise financially secure. At any rate, I live in a two income household so I will not be the only one paying the bills.

*I have entrepreneurial inclinations, or certainly a need to work more or less independently (minimal supervision) with an ability to exercise my own judgment. Almost every single member of my family, including my parents, has done the small business thing, so I know what’s involved. Right now I don’t really have the money necessary to jumpstart any ideas I’ve come up with, so this aspiration may be more of a long-term requirement than an immediate expecation.

*I want to do work that is meaningful and fulfilling. While the day-to-day tasks of work ALWAYS become boring over time, I want to at least be able to look at the big picture and feel like I am fulfilling a positive purpose within the world. In particular, my concerns lie with matters of animal welfare, habitat preservation, and the like. I also have interest in spiritually empowering other people, but I shy away from traditional religion and new age type stuff, so that doesn’t leave me much career option of that kind.

*I want to travel. Even if this travel is not explicitly built into my work, I should be able to get away for a vacation twice a year, and at least one of those vacations a couple of weeks long.

*My strengths include strong writing and proofreading skills, typing, computer literacy, and using the internet for research. I am also detail-oriented, organized, and consider myself to be a planner and a problem-solver.

*I consider myself to be somewhat creative and would enjoy composing written works, but I would not feel comfortable composing written pieces freelance as my primary source of income. I would consider this to be a good side project. I also don’t really have a professional portfolio that would land me a full-time gig doing that sort of thing.

*I am introverted and would NOT be happy in a sales or marketing career. IF I was pitching about something I really cared about and thought was worthwhile, I could probably do it, but I am definitely not interested in hawking some hot new product, whether tangible or intangible.

So is there any semi-secure career option that would play both to my interests and my strengths? Preferably without requiring more schooling? I know it’s a longshot, but I’m interested to see what (serious) ideas others come up with that I might not have considered.
Under the bullet-point mentioning travel, I would also like to mention that I have an interest in other cultures, both in the present and in history. For example, I had considered teaching English abroad as an option that fulfilled all of my strengths/interests, but didn’t like the idea of leaving the country for a full year or more.

The thing about careers is, you don’t get what you want right away, you have to earn it. And when you DO decide on something, this should be your all consuming goal. And remember, you own it, you have control, and you get what you want. But don’t let this goal control you, don’t let it get in the way of important things in your life.

From your list, I think there are several great jobs for you, that you could easily do. You could easily do P.R., or public relations, for an animal foundation like the SPCA, or ASPCA. You are pitching something, and from the sounds of it, you would deeply care about what your pitching.

Second, is journalism. Journalism will take writers for just about any subject, but you have to be prepared for rejection. When becoming a writer/columnist/journalist/reporter, you have to be willing to write something, have it turned down, and calling the people who turned it down, and ask "What can I improve on to make this better." And of course, never stop sending them stuff. This is the kind of thing you have to continuously apply to, always. And even if you write for a subject you don’t 100% agree with, do a great job on it anyways, so they start letting you have stuff you DO want to write about.

Lastly, opening your own business. In many places in this country, there are still places that don’t even have an ASPCA. Like in pensacola florida. There is a lot of animal abuse there, and no local corps. Starting a business like that, which is more a pseudo business, can be done by talking with the ASPCA foundation, and asking them to help you start a local ASPCA. This could be a great starter business, as although your not there to make money, or sell an actual product, you are however getting the management and business ethics experience. Not bad I think.

Hope this helps!

You want a company to hire you as a freelancer.
It just doesn’t work. If you want a job as a freelancer, usually you take commissions work.

For companies you do contracts.

See also < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights >.

•iPod is the brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and launched on October 23, 2001.

•Apple has lauched four verisons, shuffle, nano, classic, and touch

•Apple’s iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the iPod

•As of September 2008, more than 173,000,000 iPods had been sold worldwide, making it the best-selling digital audio player in history

•History

•The iPods line came from Apple’s "digital hub" category, when the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. Digital cameras, video cameras and organizers had been selling on mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players big and clunky or small and useless
•The name iPod was brought to the table by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who was called by Apple to figure out how to get the word out about iPods. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase "Open the pod bay door, Hal!", which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceshipApple researched the trademark and found that it was already in use. Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an "iPod" trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in July 2000 for Internet information The first iPod kiosks had been demonstrated to the public in New Jersey in March 1998, and commercial use began in January 2000, but had apparently been discontinued by 2001. The trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2003, and Grasso assigned it to Apple Computer, Inc. in 2005.
•iTunes
•Most everyone who uses or has an ipod uses iTunes for all their music needs. You can download itunes for free off the internet. Once you have it on your desktop you open it and go into iTunes Store and you can buy all your songs there. Each song is $.99 or $1.29 depending on how new the song is. The store became the market leader soon after it was launched. You can also buy movies, tv-shows, music videos, audiobooks,iPod games, podcasts, and buy or get free Apps for a iPod touch.

•Many accessories for the iPod line were made. This market is sometimes described as the iPod ecosystem. Some accessories such as sound recorders, FM radios, wired remote controls, and audio and visual cables for TV. Other accessories offer features like the Nike+iPod pedometer and the iPod Camera Connector.

•Since October 2004, iPod lines has dominated digital music player sales in the United States, with over 90% of the market and over 70% of the market for all types of players

•Some downsides to iPods are battery issues, reliability, and durability. The advertised battery life on most models is different from the real-world. Most iPods were advertised with a 14-hour battery. A MP3.com put out and article saying that it was vitually impossible. In 2003, lawsuits were charged against Apple, complaining that the batteries lasted for shorter lengths of time than said and that the batteries slowy lost power over time and decreasing the battery life even more. The lawsuit was setteled and for people who were involved got $50 store credit, or battery change. iPods have been criticized for their short life-span and fragile hard drives, It concluded that some models were more durable than others.

•iPods have many different size compbaliltiy ranging from 512MB to 160GB, that’s 250 songs to 40,000 songs

there have been over a billion downloads at the app store in the last nine months alone.

Copywriting: selling the needs as well as prospects (sometimes illusions) of becoming beautiful and high-class to consumers.

Being a doctor: selling hopes to patients (sometimes even when there aren’t any).

Going on job interviews: selling yourself (which I have been doing a lot recently) to employers.

Going on dates: selling the loving, virtuous and resourceful wife image to the other, who’s also trying to get you to buy his faithful, protective and filthy rich (or potentially so) husband image.

Wearing LV, driving Lexus, living in Berverly Hills mansion: selling credibility, translated as "I’m capable of paying back whatever you loan me"

Making friends: selling or rather, exchanging promises of comfort.

What else do we sell?

piece of mind