Work from Home Skills
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I quit my FT job in November. When I came back from vacation in January I knew I didn't want to go back to a on-site FT job. So I guess that was the start of my freelance career- with no clients and a little cushion of savings.
Let me say its been fantastic. Half my clients are onsite which means I can get some free snacks, oodle at some legs and breastseseses, but I'm like a ghost. According to everyone I'm a "temp" and I'm completely free of any drama. No one talks to me. Just show up and the hot shots in marketing tell me what to do. I literally don't have to think.
The other half of my time I spend working at home. Its great for an introvert because fuck open office plans and endless meetings. The hard part is self control. Often to get 4-6 billable hours of work done, I spend a total of 10 hours on the computer doing god knows what. But I've become more efficient with each passing day.
The freedom is great. Screw asking for raises once a year and getting 1.5%. I literally raise my rate $5 per hour with each new gig. I do plan on having a whole month of the year off. Creative work is volatile. All it takes is one shitty designer on your team, or in management, or for your company to be bought out, or your project going under to create a work life of hell that you feel stuck in. As a contract worker I can just say "fuck that shit" and walk away from it into something new and exciting.
It's the future.
- fuck open office plans! who's fucking idea was that in the first place? clearly not someone who has to work around other humansmonospaced
- also, congrats .. I'm jealous, I'm too chicken to leave the salaried positionmonospaced
- the open office plan was the greatest ploy ever to save moneyfourth