Guest Lecture – Helen McCarron & Claire Butler

Had a great talk this week off Helen and Claire. Helen is the Careers and Employability Advisor and Claire is the Student Enterprise Co-Ordinator. They spoke about working as a freelancer and how the university can help graduates start their own business. I’ve always wanted to be self employed, my parents did it and I always liked how they could be so flexible and always had a variation in what they do so this week was particularly useful for myself. They talked a lot about taxes, what you pay, when you pay and what you don’t have to pay. They also covered super useful stuff that I have no idea about like what to include on an invoice and how if you work freelance and part time that you will have to declare you work both.