If finding the right trans-friendly employer in your local area is not an option for you, then you can still earn an healthy income doing something you already know how to do.
And without setting foot in a traditional workplace on a regular basis!
Lots of self-employment options exist for for those who are in middle of their transition process.
are very well suited to transitioning people .
If you are undergoing and recovering from transgender surgery, or perhaps finding it difficult or a strain to successfully pass in your chosen gender on a regular basis, it can be much easier to separate the appearance issues from what you are able to offer professionally.
Many jobs in knowledge or information industries can now easily be adapted for home working. The technological and communications environment has never been more right to take advantage of work at home opportunities.
For the right employee and manager team – and not every person is right for this - there are great advantages for both parties.
For the homeworker, the privacy, sense of control, and lack of time and expense commuting can be a great asset, effectively shortening the working day (or letting you get more done without wasted time - not only on travel but on office politics and watercooler chitchat).
For the employer, reduced costs in office accommodation, statistically lower sickness absence, and increased productivity are the main benefits, as well as improved retention figures: trust your team, and they’ll be loyal in return.
Not every organisational culture is yet ready for homeworking though, and the Transgender Employment: Basic Tips, Strategies and Resources for the Successful Job Search DVD will help you unearth those that are – even if they don’t know it yet! It will also help you to decide whether or not you are suited to the lack of direct supervision, tangible boundaries, and social interaction that homeworking brings.
Many of the personal attributes you have developed as a transgender male or transgender female will be great assets in your job search.
If you do have the personal qualities to work successfully from home, there are also many options to do so for yourself, instead of for an employer. This is a very different experience, and takes a great deal of thought – Transgender Employment: Basic Tips, Strategies and Resources for the Successful Job Search DVD will guide you through an analysis of your specialist knowledge and skills, your aptitudes and interests, and the different options open to you. It will help you research the marketplace – for some types of business that means the local area, for others the scope might be global.
Setting up your own business means getting as much help as you can, and the Transgender Employment: Basic Tips, Strategies and Resources for the Successful Job Search DVD guides you to low-cost or free training tutorials needed to ensure your success, and help you brainstorm all the options. Very importantly, these tutorials provide you with the step-by-step blueprints for testing and researching different self-employmentopportunities.
before committing yourself to a non-profitable path – and there are a great many options you can go down with very little cash outlay to start.
Reworking work – and its traditional meaning – could be the second most exciting transformation in your life.
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