Being a freelancer gives you a lot of agency.
You aren’t tied to a time clock, you have the freedom to choose who you want to work with, and there’s a level of unmatched satisfaction when you do a good job.
Joseph Reilly is the author of the novel Vanishing Love published by Adelaide Books in November 2020. Aside from being owner of Reillywriting LLC, he is a current writer at Digisphere Marketing, 214 Interactive, and MarketScale. Joseph’s writing has been published by hundreds of small and large businesses like Verizon, CIC Reports, and Chegg. He’s also been published by Ephemeral Elegies, Monologue Blogger, Dreaming In Fiction, among others. He has also penned four self-published contemporary romance novels and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from The New School in New York. You can read all of his work and more at joereillywrites.wordpress.com.
Being a freelancer gives you a lot of agency.
You aren’t tied to a time clock, you have the freedom to choose who you want to work with, and there’s a level of unmatched satisfaction when you do a good job.
Freelancing can often feel like it’s either an endless fountain of work or a dry desert without a sign pointing to where the next project lays.
When you’re building up a portfolio, this uncertainty can become maddening. Even the most seasoned freelancers can get stressed from this up and down trajectory.