Prioritizing is essential, but you still can’t have everything
Running a business — and, for that matter, managing one’s daily life — is at its core an exercise in prioritizing.
Running a business — and, for that matter, managing one’s daily life — is at its core an exercise in prioritizing.
I felt pretty much zero panic about how I would continue to earn my living and support my family. I honestly didn’t give a single thought to my livelihood in that crisis moment. And that’s because I’m a freelance writer.
There seems to be a general perception that freelancing is inherently insecure, that no matter how long or successfully you’ve been doing it you’re always just a few beats away from a devastatingly bad month. But this isn’t true.
Just because the career is amazingly flexible doesn’t mean it’s magical. It’s pretty dang hard to design and execute a full-fledged career as a freelancer while simultaneously parenting.
The ability to customize your costs and benefits is both a pro and a con of being a freelancer.
I’m writing this monthly series about the joys and challenges of full-time freelancing, and it turns out that in many cases the joys are the same as the challenges — usually two sides of the same coin. That is certainly true with the question of time management. The joy and challenge of your time being …
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Now that freelancing is exploding in the US workforce, everyone has an opinion about it. Is it the best, most freeing career path ever or a hell of insecurity and stress? Is it a giant engine of creative empowerment or the downfall of civilized society? Does it require pants or not?