HOW TO FINALLY MAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF AS A FREELANCER

Today, I learned the beauty of the business of freelance—Firstly, it’s one of the most challenging work to get started with, in my case, it took me 9 years to finally escape the corporate life as a designer and land my first client as a design contractor. 

But today, I’m finally seeing the beauty of this business, coming off from 2 years of freelancing as a designer now—here are my learning takeaways so far… 

Before I dive into the takeaways, I want to highlight an important lesson: I’ve learned to slow down on my spending. I realized that excessive spending on wants is a major factor in profit loss. It may sound simple, but as a freelancer, it’s essential to treat your freelance work like a real business. Nothing is handed to you—you have to earn it, just like any other business.

So, to my fellow freelancers and those starting out, I hope these takeaways can help!

• It pays more with less expenses and transportation  

• This serves as your business… You’re an entrepreneur

• The benefit of being a freelancer is that you get to work with multiple projects and clients, hence, more income

• Working in corporate will most likely consume your whole day just working for that company—it's not wrong, but that's just the reality

• You get to have more time in life outside of your work

• You can finally try other sh*t that you’ve always wanted to do, it could or couldn’t make you money, but nevertheless, you’re still an entrepreneur! 

• You’ll learn about taxes, I SWEAR

Life with time is just the right life you need to have.

Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:23 PM