To want to know how all these people earn a living titting about all day?

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Seriously, there is a guy on countryfile right now who is an expert on foraging, and there was another guy who was a free diver. Not to mention the two women who were artists.

I want these jobs. I want to spend all day just titting about and somehow still earn a living.

It's very common round here to have a "creative non-job", it's for woman who are far too superior to be a SAHM / want to justify using a nursery/hiring a nanny even though they are a sahm...

Bit like all the professional cupcake makers who never make a profit...

There's always someone in the background doing something far less interesting that make sure the gas doesn't get cut off.

I remember that Scotland location one. He was going to set up a pottery shop and needed a workspace and shop. They bought a massive three story house with land and outbuildings in the arse end of nowhere. She didnt work.

I was like

They had sold up in London I guess.

I've decided I want to be a sculptor. Been to an exhibition today with lots of elephants and foxes, etc made out of welded alumnium and over 1k each.

I could twat about welding aluminium I reckon.

I know a welder. It's a really crap job. I also knew someone who went to Uni as a mature student, then her DH bought her an office which she turned into an art gallery

Growing up I always wanted to live in a static caravan on the welsh coast making things from shells.

I planned to live with a collie and a fat, ginger cat and wear floaty skirts and have dreadlocks.

It didn't happen.

Having said that, my friend has a creative, niche job & never seems to be short of cash (although low overheads and no kids so...) and I'm dying to ask her how much she earns but don't because she mentioned one day that people are obsessed about how much she earns. She probably meant me actually, thinking about it

Good idea galaxy.

I'm going to make greenhouses out of used plastic water bottles - they will be both practical and aesthetically pleasing - I will label it functional art and make a fortune.

They might have an independent income

A restaurant near me employs a full time forager.

I think free divers don't earn much money from free diving but a few at the top get sponsorship.

Artists sell their work.

Probably trustafarians/inheritances

If you don't need or want to work for somebody else, why not work / tit about for yourself.
It stops the brain cells from dying, espeially as you get older.
I love titting about with hobbies and interests it keeps me sane and stops the boredom, life would be so much worse If I couldn't tit around.

I think most people who tit around have a very simple none materialistic lifestyle and are quite often happy to forgo what others may see as important. It's each to their own.

Actually Pilates teachers can make good money. Our old Pilates teacher was a physio student who did Pilates to put her through her degree. She charged 8 pounds an hour per head for a class of 4-5 people. She taught a couple of classes every evening and did fairly well, I think!

Oh, that's not bad going

The tax credits people now assume you earn NMW for a certain number of hours depending on whether you have DCs or not.

Previously, in addition to titting about being an artist, you could tit about at car boot sales and pound shops, sell the odd ' treasure find' on eBay, earn about £30 a week and claim a big lump of TCs on top.

singsongmama. I work with one or two employed titted abouted too. They do about 20% of the work that everyone else does, but they won't get fired cos that's the public sector for you. Thankfully they're both in their late 50s so can retire soon.

I also know another professional titter abouter who is always spouting 'work less live more' proclamations on Facebook. You probably won't be surprised to learn that his deceased dad was a lord, so I'm thinking trust fund .

The number people that manage to tit about solely on their own efforts, rather than support via an inheritance, parents, partner or tax credits will be vanishingly small. One example however, that I was impressed and just a bit about was the woman whose mate was moaning about her on here a few days ago cos she had got rich with a diet plan that she had entered.

I think Kirstie Allsopp tits about in skips and makes a living wafting about trying crafts.

I want to tit about and waft.

i was watching this,then the door went and i missed the blardy weekly forecast,not happy

Some people work very hard/have identified a lucrative niche market but part of selling their product is pretending they waft about all day gathering flowers (an thinking products like Emma bridgewater pottery).

Kirstie Allsop is absolutely stealing a living!

Oh yes, cupcakes. If you costed out all those lovely organic ingredients and your time at even NMW, you'd probably gave to sell them at about a fiver each to break even sadly.

Most of these people are independently wealthy.

It's like someone who's an 'actress' but is actually married to someone rich or has a trust fund but occasionally appears in friend Jonty's amateur dramatic productions or once appeared in an advert for tampax. Ditto 'model'

'Forager' = bored toff

"Blogger" = bored trustafarian

"artisan baker" = bored city banker

"Artisan
Cheese maker = bored millionaire musician

There are loads of people who have 'jobs' which could not possibly pay the mortgage without a little help from outside sources.

And this obsession with being a chef

My BIL is a head chef a very posh restaurants in London and he works from 7am til 12pm . He has done it since he was 17. It's exhausting. He's doing the knowledge do he can be a cabbie instead.

I've got a friend who runs "foraging workshops" on a Saturday in nearby woodland. You hand over £120, and for that you get shown various leaves and berries and stuff. You even get to bring your own packed lunch - but you do get given a "free" cup of hot chocolate out a flask

No idea how much she makes, but it's very popular as far as I know. She does claim housing benefit though.

All made their money in the late 90s/noughties as

IT consultants/ investment bankers before getting out of the rat race to enjoy the good life. Sigh.

I spent my twenties titting about, my husband was slightly more hardworking and his mum helped us a bit.

Then I decided to sort my life out and got a job running someone else's titabout enterprise, then his wife told him to get rid of it so that was me sacked on my first day back from maternity leave... All this time my husband was purely titting about.

Now we're both working reasonably hard but at enjoyable lifestyle businesses.

So yes, I think there's usually a close family member propping things up - or there's more of a demand than you think.

I'm sure artists consider there jobs to be real.

Being an expert forager could lead to a reasonable self employed income if you take groups out/combine it with cooking classes for the produce you have foraged. I know a man who makes a living this way, he forages mushrooms and runs cookery classes.