Home workers celebrate Jellyweek

Further to my post about the necessity for home workers to keep connected in order to stay positive, I should mention that this week is Worldwide Jellyweek, in which this unique business event is being celebrated all over the globe.

Fortuitously, yesterday just happened to be the day on which Frome Jelly falls, and here is an artist’s impression of a couple of the attendees in a (rare?) moment of concentration between laughter and cake eating. The artist is Sarah Godsill, who is usually to be found capturing much grander events like weddings.

Jelly brings together random groups of people from many industries and professions. As well as Sarah, yesterday’s Frome Jelly at The Old Church School consisted of a trainer and coach, two IT specialists, a legal consultant, a PR expert, and an international development and human rights professional. Wow! I highly recommend Jelly as a unique way of:

• getting out of the house
• meeting new people you’d otherwise never run into
• picking up bits of advice, particularly on those aggravating IT glitches that can hold you up
• helping out other people and realising that they respect and value the experience and knowledge you possess, which you probably normally dismiss as obvious and commonplace
• clearing up some boring old jobs that have been pushed down the to do list for weeks
• catching up on local gossip
• having a good laugh
• gaining a whole new perspective on your life and work
• eating cake (often homemade, yum)

All this with no requirement to stand up and talk about your business or listen to other people boring on about theirs. I’m pleased to see there’s lots of buzz on Twitter about new groups starting up in places all over the UK. To find out more and for help in setting up your own Jelly, check out my Jelly guide.

I know lots of readers are already committed Jelly-goers. Have I missed out any other Jelly benefits?