Day to day

We’ll level with you—we totally understand the freelancer’s resistance to time tracking. After all, you didn’t make the jump into this lifestyle just to punch someone else’s clock.

You’re a freelancer, making a living doing what you love. You’ve landed a project that seems promising, but the longer it goes on, the more you feel you’re doing extra work.

When it comes to being a freelancer now, everyone is ready to be the protagonist of their own career.

You may have gone into freelancing to avoid ever having to do interviews. Well, sadly, in same cases you may have to. So here’s a guide to interviewing as a freelancer.

“I once shared information with a freelancer group about a company who routinely paid my invoices late,” she recalls. “They found out and ghosted me out of the blue, which put a big dent in my earnings that year. But I’m glad I did it, because other freelancers wouldn’t have known to avoid working with them.” Let’s all try to be a bit more like Jessica

When you wear every hat needed for your business to succeed, it’s difficult to let your head get a rest. This is only made worse if you are defined by your KPI’s. So how do you keep your work and your self-worth separate?

Even if your job is creative, you can still use different forms of creative practice to avoid the many forms of burnout. Creative expert and writer David Silverberg looks at the steps for getting it right.

It sounds so simple. But moving away from your desk is sometimes the best thing you can do for your work.

When you’re a freelancer, that means you can literally aspend all of your time working. How do you avoid that?

The hardest tasks are always the easiest ones to avoid. What can you do to face those tasks straight on?