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

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Pipbin · 03/08/2014 19:32

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.

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Pipbin · 03/08/2014 20:27

No way would I entertain being a chef. That it like the opposite of titting about.

I want to waft, as said above, and have a small studio at the bottom of the garden.
There were people on the Shed of the Year thing who were titters about.

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GalaxyInMyPants · 03/08/2014 20:34

This is the sort of stuff I'm going to tit about and make. Just need to learn how to make it.

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

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 03/08/2014 20:34

Read the new book by the founders of not on the high street. They have lots of people who have turned hobbies into businesses. The people who make the swing seats with names carved in started it as teachers (I think that was it) in their kitchen. They now have DC at private school and holiday abroad. They have a team working for them and a thriving business. They worked seriously bloody hard to get all this though and built the business whilst working full time. They took big risks. And worked hard. Did I mention the hard work? And no, I don't actually know the but have heard their story from others who do.

GalaxyInMyPants · 03/08/2014 20:35

Ooh yes, that bloke with the intricate bird boxes.

drspouse · 03/08/2014 20:37

My brother does this.
His wife works. He took about 8 years to build their house, and he runs courses on how to tit about build your own house.
That meant that people paid to come and build it, and now they I think come and pay to learn how to be green.
They live in a very cheap place and my mum seems to buy the children's shoes and their birthday presents etc. as they have a credit card she pays for.

museumum · 03/08/2014 20:44

Free diver bloke probably sells those lobsters to rick stein for a fortune!
Forager man is likely some kind of naturalist or botanist isn't he?

museumum · 03/08/2014 20:46

I know two artists who earn a living from it. One is my age and chronically broke but does sell stuff reasonably often, his partner is a pro photographer so they do have a wage coming in.
The other is MILs friend and reasonably famous. Don't know anything about her finances, or what her husband does/did.

Philoslothy · 03/08/2014 20:50

In the past I have made a living by titting about. Now I just tit about. It does not support our family but we live the life we want and is part of that package.

erin99 · 03/08/2014 20:51

I can see someone could run expensive foraging "experience" days and make a fortune. River Cottage run them, they are about £150ish per person IIRC and they do sea shore ones, forest. You could do mushrooming I suppose. Yup, I'd like a job like that but I reckon some people will be making it pay.

You "just" need to find something people will pay £40 an hour for, with relatively low outgoings. Aromatherapy, crystal therapy, reiki...? Aura reading? I don't think they are all lifestyle businesses, I think some people make a lot of money doing this sort of stuff.

Philoslothy · 03/08/2014 20:56

Sorry pressed send too soon, I am about to start titting about again. I will earn more than I did when I started teaching, but will have a life.

Panzee · 03/08/2014 21:01

Did the not on the high street book talk about the makers of the arse table?

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 03/08/2014 21:05

Not sure. Tbf if it did they almost certainly didn't refer to it as 'the arse table' so I may have missed it!

JuanPotatoTwo · 03/08/2014 21:07

I know someone who has made an absolute fortune from a YouTube video. Right place, right time. I'm not in the least bit envious of the lovely titting about lifestyle they have now

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 03/08/2014 21:07

Not sure. Tbf if the Not on the high str book did mention the 'arse table' they probably called it something else!

drspouse · 03/08/2014 21:23

The other thing you can do of course is barter your titting about for something practical. I currently live in Greenytown where everyone recycles their handwoven yoghurt but a lot of them actually also know how to plumb in their wood burning boilers and install their windmills with the correct feng shui.

However I used to live in a hipster part of London where there was a local currency. The offered/wanted pages were all full of "Offered: crystal healing. Wanted: a plumber".

I suspect my brother would like to barter but as in many places that are fairly cheap to live, 90% of the population work for normal money in capitalist type enterprises and shop at Lidl, and only 10% try to barter for organic quinoa.

CheeryName · 03/08/2014 21:45

An eclectic mix of titting sessions, hands on wafting and a free herbal tea for the first 10 to register.

Only £150 for a day, or Attend for Two Days at just £250 with free wild camping.

GalaxyInMyPants · 03/08/2014 21:54

I know people who charge a fortune for chicken keeping courses. People come for a whole day to learn that chickens need water and chicken food and that if given these specialised requirements will produce an egg most days.

FloatIsRechargedNow · 03/08/2014 21:55

There's only one way that it's poss to 'tit about' and that's if someone else is paying the actual bills. I remember contemplating about this very same question way back in the 1990s when I did a bit of 'titting around' myself as well as bill-paying stuff and realized if you wanted to be an artiste [dahling] creative, poet, thingy...you need a non-tit-abouter to be paying those bills.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 03/08/2014 22:20

Being a YouTuber would be my ultimate 'titting about' career

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 03/08/2014 22:20

Being a YouTuber would be my ultimate 'titting about' career

GalaxyInMyPants · 03/08/2014 22:25

Dd has a YouTube channel and reckons she's going to be the next Stampy Longnose and make a living from it.

OracleofDelphi · 03/08/2014 22:39

I think some people like to over exaggerate the more arty elements of their lives and gloss over the more mundane....

I have known an acupuncturist who worked in a call centre part time, a massage therapist who worked in an organic food shop, and a "poet" who actually works in the box office at a theatre ..... But they only tend to tell people about the first occupation!

KatherinaMinola · 03/08/2014 22:39

Kirstie Allsopp is a very talented TV presenter. The titting about is her material - not her skill.

I know a professional forager - he is a highly skilled ranger and runs forest schools and that type of thing - it's all hard work. And apparently he spends around 6 months of the year under canvas taking various groups out on residentials.

Plenty of artists make a living - and some get rich.

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Pipbin · 03/08/2014 22:50

non-tit-abouter

From hence forth there are tit-abouters and non-tit-abouters.

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OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat · 03/08/2014 23:03

I read about this in last week's Observer.

Another idea for those of you looking to start a career in titting about.

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