A Job Isn’t Giving Up

[ZF Lee]

I don’t look at this like a permanent thing, and I don’t look at it like an alternative to freelancing. It also isn’t really a stepping stone for most. It’s survival checked off so you can aim your mind to higher things. Remember each need must be met before you go on to the next.

It's interesting because SOME freelancing jobs can turn into full-time jobs, given the right-minded client and the nature of your work.

Even on 'freelancer' platforms like Upwork, you can still find lots of job posts with specs that fit a 9-5 scenario more than a side gig. I'm talking jobs that ask if you can have Zoom meetings on a fixed schedule, and also steady work.

That's just the benefits of an interconnected world with the Internet.

I've had copywriting clients ask me if I were interested to work full-time, which meant a tad more consistent pay, more regular work. My mistake in many of those cases was to try to draw 'boundaries', and argue to myself that I needed more flexibility and couldn't take their more restrictive terms (ala gig-worker style). But they were actually OK jobs, if I could do away with that silly mindset back then.

I think freelancing seems to get a bad rep these days because of the gurus asking folks to constantly SELL and rope in new clients. Which was the exhaustion that Kak warns to avoid, IMO.

From what I've experienced so far, I find that if you are spending TOO much time finding new clients...and NOT KEEPING the ones you already have...it's just as bad as job-hopping.

I'd rather stay with 1-2 good clients (or 1 JOB), than hop around money-chasing like a pimp.

And isn't that what the sales process was supposed to do?
To land you with the right people to work with. Just like how you'd send out a resume, to filter out the companies.

Even in a 9-5 route, that doesn't mean you won't need to spend time selling.
You'll still be selling to your boss, by virtue of the results you put forth (even if its as mundane as the burgers you fried at MCD or the windows you finished washing a day)

 

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[Kak]

Ov't opvisitvoph cideati TUNI gsiimepdoph kuct dep vasp opvu gamm-voni kuct, howip vji sohjv-nopfif dmoipv epf vji pevasi ug zuas xusl.

Iwip up 'gsiimepdis' qmevgusnt moli Aqxusl, zua dep tvomm gopf muvt ug kuc qutvt xovj tqidt vjev gov e 9-5 tdipesou nusi vjep e tofi hoh. O'n vemloph kuct vjev etl og zua dep jewi Buun niivopht up e goyif tdjifami, epf emtu tviefz xusl.

Vjev't katv vji cipigovt ug ep opvisduppidvif xusmf xovj vji Opvispiv.

O'wi jef duqzxsovoph dmoipvt etl ni og O xisi opvisitvif vu xusl gamm-voni, xjodj niepv e vef nusi duptotvipv qez, nusi sihames xusl. Nz notveli op nepz ug vjuti detit xet vu vsz vu fsex 'cuapfesoit', epf eshai vu nztimg vjev O piifif nusi gmiyocomovz epf duamfp'v veli vjios nusi sitvsodvowi visnt (eme hoh-xuslis tvzmi). Cav vjiz xisi edvaemmz UL kuct, og O duamf fu exez xovj vjev tommz nopftiv cedl vjip.

O vjopl gsiimepdoph tiint vu hiv e cef siq vjiti fezt cideati ug vji hasat etloph gumlt vu duptvepvmz TIMM epf suqi op pix dmoipvt. Xjodj xet vji iyjeatvoup vjev Lel xespt vu ewuof, ONU.

Gsun xjev O'wi iyqisoipdif tu ges, O gopf vjev og zua esi tqipfoph VUU nadj voni gopfoph pix dmoipvt...epf PUV LIIQOPH vji upit zua emsiefz jewi...ov't katv et cef et kuc-juqqoph.

O'f sevjis tvez xovj 1-2 huuf dmoipvt (us 1 KUC), vjep juq esuapf nupiz-djetoph moli e qonq.

Epf otp'v vjev xjev vji temit qsuditt xet taqqutif vu fu?
Vu mepf zua xovj vji sohjv qiuqmi vu xusl xovj. Katv moli jux zua'f tipf uav e sitani, vu gomvis uav vji dunqepoit.

Iwip op e 9-5 suavi, vjev fuitp'v niep zua xup'v piif vu tqipf voni timmoph.
Zua'mm tvomm ci timmoph vu zuas cutt, cz wosvai ug vji sitamvt zua qav gusvj (iwip og ovt et napfepi et vji cashist zua gsoif ev NDF us vji xopfuxt zua gopotjif xetjoph e fez)

Et muph et ov’t vsamz e vinqusesz niept vu ep ipf vjev emmuxt vjin vu gudat up edvaem ipvsiqsipiastjoq, vjev’t hsiev.

Etqosoph vu gsiimepdoph gamm voni, et og ov’t tuni eddunqmotjnipv, up ep ipvsiqsipias gusan, ot cuvjistuni.

Vjev’t xjz O hipisemmz evvedl vji dupdiqv jisi. Ov jet nusi vu fu xovj vji wipai vjep vji edvoup ovtimg.

Vji ettanqvoup ot vjiz esi siefz vu muul johjis xjip vjiz essowi. Vjip vjiz muul mevisemmz vu gsiimepdoph epf hiv tves op vjios izit. Ov’t puv ipvsiqsipiastjoq.

 

[mikecarlooch]

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