Advice To Anyone Wanting To See The Ashes As It Happens But Won’t Be Able To Make The Flight Down Under This Winter
In 2005, the England and Aussie cricket sides took part in the greatest ever Test match series, featuring the single greatest Test match at Birmingham where The Poms triumphed by 2 runs with merely a handful of deliveries remaining, in cricket’s long and glorious history.
In the winter of the subsequent year, the English travelled to Australia for the return series. It didn’t go well. When Steve Harmison bowled the first ball of the first Test at The Gabba in Brisbane, it was so wide that Andrew Flintoff took the ball at second slip. It didn’t improve and England were hammered 5-0 by a very single minded and sore team of Australians out to settle scores with some decisive Pom bashing.
In 2009, the Ashes returned to English grounds and although the series was nowhere near as dramatic or romantic, it was nevertheless just as strongly contested and England again won the little trophy and bragging rights.
In October, the English will again leave these lands to defend the title on Australian ground. We can only wish that this time will be better than the last, and in that belief massive numbers of English followers, the Barmy Army, will decamp Down Under to go with the team, particularly to the Boxing Day and New Year games in Melbourne and Sydney respectively.
But soft! How will those who can’t make the trip and so will be unable to follow the series when the games will be contested overnight on the underbelly of the globe? Some unreasonable answers are possible. 1. Take all of one’s annual leave to coincide the dates of the matches, which may not go down well with family members. 2. Finish the job for the duration of the series, which will absolutely not go down well with family members. 3. Staying awake through the night to watch might not go down well with the boss if one keeps falling asleep in post.
What to do? Well, there is an opportune solution which could work. The dedicated cricket supporter could look for an Internet Business which is offering Online Jobs to people who would want to Work From Home. Other conditions should be that the working day should be completely flexible, i.e if there is a need to be available to monitor telephone calls during usual business hours or be going out to visit clients and attend meetings during the day, this isn’t helpful. The job will need to be free of such considerations.
This narrows the field down considerably, but not completely. There is a choice which can tick the boxes, and that is to learn Search Engine Optimisation, a job which ticks the box to Work From Home as most of the work requires mostly writing articles like this one, which is not time dependent (tick) which means that they can be completed before the cricket starts or after it ends (tick). There is a need to occasionally visit clients, but this can be set up between Test matches if possible (tick).
Online Jobs such as this, employed by an Internet Business are a growing sector in the United Kingdom. Many companies, particularly new and small ones, find that the technologies are available to permit them to have their staff Work From Home which greatly brings down the expenditure of employing people by not needing to maintain a central workplace.
Because of the position of those who opt to do Online Jobs, another upside that is open to those doing such work, is that they can be self employed and so enjoy tax advantages either through self employment status or by registering a limited company and working through that. There are hoops to jump though in these cases, but it is surely worthwhile examining it as a practical option. And the greatest reward of all could be that you get to see the series as they happen. Joy! (tick)
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