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Re:Lessons from Freelancing by eseehausen on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:30AM (#9819107)
I agree completely. Honing that gut instinct and learning to market (as painful as it can be) seem to be the biggest things involved. I find that compared to a day job, one of the best things about freelancing is that if there's the sort of issue that would make me want to stay indoors and idle all day, I can actually spend that day working it out and get back on the horse the next day rather than spinning my wheels in an office all week.

Judging by some of your comments, I may have walked right by you on the strand with my wife a couple weeks ago. That was only made possible by understanding my priorities, even when giving myself permission to follow them can be scary.

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Re:Lessons from Freelancing by joelklettke on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:59AM (#9819311)
Absolutely - the post wasn't meant to say "money over everything". One of the big reasons I'm freelancing is for the freedom and flexibility that comes with it.

But I still treat it like a job. A job I can take vacations from, or a hiatus from, or whatever - but still something that takes some discipline to succeed at.

I never intended it to sound like freelancing should be un-fun slave labor. That would entirely miss the point.

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Re:Lessons from Freelancing by eseehausen on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:09AM (#9819388)
I was more agreeing with the parent comment than disagreeing with you. Money, marketing, and discipline probably should be bigger parts of my life (definitely in the case of marketing). Getting to see your thoughts and that front has contributed to the gears turning there, and I already sent the article to some of my copywriting/editing freelance friends.
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Re:Lessons from Freelancing by BozeWolf on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:53AM (#9819260)
I liked the "giving myself permission" part of your comment. It feels the same to me too haha. I guess the freedom I wrote about does not feel like freedom somehow. So everybody can bash my comment now ;)
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