Posts tagged freelancing
“ So much of what I was taught at school taught me how to be a good employee. But I’m not an employee. I work for myself. Because of that, I’ve had to rely on the business experiments I made as a child.”
Think Different: Teaching Kids to Be Entrepreneurs
I used to draw pictures of Super Mario Bros. characters and sell them for a quarter in elementary school. I love this post.
“ What do you mean “payment”? You told me you were freelancing?”
(via clientsfromhell)
Priceless.
Well, so far the proximity of the fridge isn’t a problem, because I’ve found that I’ve started only eating two meals a day for some reason since I started working at home, and I’m not much of a snacker. Now, as for the proximity of the beer in the fridge, that could be a problem…
As for the DVDs, I’ve found that as long as I have ample watching time with my meals I can stay away, but we’ll see how long that willpower lasts. The easiest solution to this is forcing myself to go to a cafe, except that’s far more difficult in the winter here.
Any other freelancers out there?
As for last week, I’ve joined your ranks, and I’ve been writing about it quite a bit (and will inevitably continue to do so, cos yay, free time!) over on my personal blog. Check it out if that’s up your alley.
“ When people say they want to get into freelancing but don’t know how to do it, what I tell them is: OK, fine, you don’t know how to freelance because you’ve never done it before, but take something you do know how to do—dating—and just use the same rules. Freelancing is basically just courtship, but the freelancer-editor relationship is nothing more than friends with benefits. The editor likes you because you remind the editor of when they had enthusiasm and appetite and vision and so you make the editor feel powerful in the way that nostalgia empowers people.”
But the editor will never choose you over the publication to which they are married. It will not even be a fleeting thought in the editor’s mind. The freelancer can have a lot of fun, but is ultimately the editor’s plaything. And any one freelancer is, above all things, unnecessary and replaceable. I always felt like the most fumbling juggling act in the industry.
Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup - The Awl
As someone who’s been on both sides of this equation, all I can say is that every single part of that is true. Also, read the article.
