having to adapt is also very important, a large part of why my dad was pushed out of his job was his inability and lack of interest in learning basic computer skills , tech and times are changing on turbo speed these days.

as for the indirect approach, i have done them yes, back in the day i had two quite popular blogs in different niehces and if i had started youtube when some people told me to, I might have been able to fully pivot off it.

the day of people reading blogs is dead though and I simply cannot bring myself to do tiktoks.

a lot of the fromus / groups I am in now ban any self-promotion and only push their own account managers and things.

still, basically, I'm down to upwork and word-of-mouth references, but hey ho