Are you a "slashie"?

              

Are you? Are you a slashie?

"Slashie" is a new term for an situation which is actually quite old, as it's been happening for years. A situation which many people have been used to. And it's becoming more and more prevalent. More people are either having to "be a slashie", or are choosing to. It's just the way that the world, in particular the working world, has evolved.

A slashie is someone who is someone who has a number of different jobs, simultaneously. This can be:

• by choice, in order to define oneself. Which is especially wonderful for busy people who have a passion which they would like to express. I met an accountant (her work pays the bills) recently, who does some healing (her passion), in the weekends
• when I was training yoga teachers and aura healers, one of the first things that that I would say is: "keep your day job". The yoga teacher and healer situations are saturated in New Zealand, and I really wanted people to know that it is rare to be able to make a decent living out of doing just one of these two. Both groups of people need to be quite versatile to have steady work
• often people will set out on a particular direction in life, and somewhere along they way, they will realise their deep correct calling, and start making the time and space for this. I have a yoga teacher friend who became drawn to ceremonies, and ended up also being a marriage celebrant. For myself, I was a yoga teacher who also became an aura healer. Over time, I found where my heart belonged, and became a Maori healer, and studied deep Maori spirituality. The yoga drastically receded in my life, the aura work is no more
• I honestly would include working parents here
• when it's hard to find full-time work, it makes sense to have two part-time jobs. So, in this case it would be out of necessity. I did this for years. When my youngest was a teen, I worked the equivalent of one and a half jobs, teaching yoga, and doing healing and regressions. These days I give clairvoyant readings, teach a bit of yoga, do healing, and write. It is much easier for me to just do one thing, over and over, in one place, but, for now, I do not see this happening. So, I keep being a slashie
• there are some incredibly talented people who manage to create a couple of businesses, which they work at part-time, for each, and love it

I find that I need to be incredibly organised, as a slashie (the term makes me chuckle). Because so much time can be taken up with travel. And you also have to fit in some work to suit your clients, so you can be working unusual hours. This does make life interesting. For example, I just love, on a quiet evening, when I am on my own, to give a clairvoyant reading (no, I'm not a tarot reader, by the way). It's just such a peaceful happening.

Sometimes, though, it does seem as though we have to put our passions, our hearts longings, on hold, due to circumstance, and time. But, even just doing a wee bit here and there of what we dream of, as we are able, simply sets the wheels in motion, and we can just keep going like this until we are able to do more. Maybe morph from one way of life to another, if needed.

Myself, I do feel that having a few creative outlets is a wonderful way to paint our dreams.