Is Advocacy Your Side Gig or Career?
I have found such a great way to make a little change from speaking and writing about my health condition. At first, I felt bad making money off of my story, but I realized my story is worth being told, and I am worth being paid to tell it.
If you are making money from your advocacy, How many of you felt weird at first but now are ready, willing, and able to make money for your advocacy?
It was my career finale, in that in my last decade or so, I was a Long Term Care Ombudsman & Ombudsman Program Director for an ASAP- elder services agency- covering a region of my state. Now retired, I wamt to make it a "side gig", not as a volunteer but paid, to supplement my Social Security, AND to put what I have learned through the years to good use. But, I don't quite know how.
Yes
No
Yes, but mostly as a thought leader and consultant for biopharma or professional societies.
