Top Ten Reasons Why Freelancers Freelance
A lot of people think freelancing means you are 'free' to do anything for them, for free! They'd like to believe you have hours of unoccupied time and they are doing you a favour by giving you work...I have news for you, HELL NO!
If I am working on a particular assignment, I do expect to get paid for it! Manic deadlines, racing against the clock, weekend plans, bills -- I have them too, the only difference is that I'm not tied to a corporate office like most people. But make no mistake, I take my work very seriously.
So do me a favour, don't give me your resume for 'free rewriting' and don't ask me for help with letters to bank managers or senior associates. I hate, no, I loathe writing them as much as you do. But I'd never ask my neighbour to write them just because they know how to spell. And hate to burst the bubble, that is not what I do for a living.
If you want to risk sending me work, with a 'please help me this one time,' go ahead. Chances are I should charge you for it but am being too polite and you're not reading the 'get lost' sign pasted across my forehead.
Its simple really. You wouldn't go to a brain surgeon and ask the doc to maybe give you this one surgery for free since he or she is anyway in the line of neurosurgery.
All I'm asking for is some decency. I didn't suddenly wake up to this profession... That someone was right when they said, 'there's no such thing as a free lunch!'
Read this from a blog called Freelancer's rant. Its a fun reminder of why I began freelancing and most of it holds true. Which part? Will leave you to decide.
Top Ten Reasons Why Freelancers Freelance
Johnny
If you freelance, have you ever stopped and wondered why the hell you are in the first place? Yeah, me too on occasion. So here we have the top ten reasons we freelance so maybe you can find one and put it to rest:
10. You now get to put CEO title in email signatures.
9. You no longer have to sit by that same smelly dude on the bus while commuting to work.
8. You had been in an entry-level position for, oh, nine years.
7. Because freelancers have it soooooo easy. The lucky bastards.
6. You already had a water cooler at home to hang out at.
5. You prefer not to have to explain those background and credit checks done while applying to jobs.
4. You went postal at old job. Probably not wanted back.
3. You can’t get fired anymore for being on Twitter and watching porn online while working.
2. You can now go weeks on end without giving a shit about hygiene.
1. Two words: Mo’ money! What? Really? Uh… nevermind then.
If I am working on a particular assignment, I do expect to get paid for it! Manic deadlines, racing against the clock, weekend plans, bills -- I have them too, the only difference is that I'm not tied to a corporate office like most people. But make no mistake, I take my work very seriously.
So do me a favour, don't give me your resume for 'free rewriting' and don't ask me for help with letters to bank managers or senior associates. I hate, no, I loathe writing them as much as you do. But I'd never ask my neighbour to write them just because they know how to spell. And hate to burst the bubble, that is not what I do for a living.
If you want to risk sending me work, with a 'please help me this one time,' go ahead. Chances are I should charge you for it but am being too polite and you're not reading the 'get lost' sign pasted across my forehead.
Its simple really. You wouldn't go to a brain surgeon and ask the doc to maybe give you this one surgery for free since he or she is anyway in the line of neurosurgery.
All I'm asking for is some decency. I didn't suddenly wake up to this profession... That someone was right when they said, 'there's no such thing as a free lunch!'
Read this from a blog called Freelancer's rant. Its a fun reminder of why I began freelancing and most of it holds true. Which part? Will leave you to decide.
Top Ten Reasons Why Freelancers Freelance
Johnny
If you freelance, have you ever stopped and wondered why the hell you are in the first place? Yeah, me too on occasion. So here we have the top ten reasons we freelance so maybe you can find one and put it to rest:
10. You now get to put CEO title in email signatures.
9. You no longer have to sit by that same smelly dude on the bus while commuting to work.
8. You had been in an entry-level position for, oh, nine years.
7. Because freelancers have it soooooo easy. The lucky bastards.
6. You already had a water cooler at home to hang out at.
5. You prefer not to have to explain those background and credit checks done while applying to jobs.
4. You went postal at old job. Probably not wanted back.
3. You can’t get fired anymore for being on Twitter and watching porn online while working.
2. You can now go weeks on end without giving a shit about hygiene.
1. Two words: Mo’ money! What? Really? Uh… nevermind then.
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