Full time & Freelance
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- anonyms
i was just wondering out there within all the NT people, how many of you work full time and then come home to do freeelance work.... i work full time 9-5 jobby but i ve just been offered some freelance work. i should jump at the chance to take this up, but lets get to the real question how do u do it??? i could see my self working all night and weekends and not have a life.
- ********0
freelance always if at all possible, so you can write off your taxes and get moolah back!!
- jevad0
I did it for a long, long time. 9 - 5 full time gig and then freelance stuff in the evenings - about 8 -12. But that was only really because my job was so fucking boring - doing a lot of banners and stuff like that.
Since moving to Denver I have not been actively seeking freelance work because my job (well the one I have now anyway) is fucking sweet and I'm working on cool stuff.
I also have a wife and an 8 yr old we've just adopted, and so I like my free time to be just that - so I can spend it making memories....
- _salisae_0
how much did you get paid per banner, jevad?
- radar0
unlike Jevad, I have no family activities so I freelance alot - because I love money, and my daytime job isn't very satisfying (graphically specking)
- anonyms0
my 9-5 jobs like that now not very creative just doing alot of corporate s**t, so i want to try and do at least a bit of creative design, where i have to actually use my head and think.
- fake_it_up0
i do alot of freelance as well on nights and weeknds... on a normal week ill do 10-30 hours freelance on top of the 9-5... get burnt out alot but the freelance is pretty cool work and good money...
- jevad0
how much did you get paid per banner, jevad?
_salisae_
(Feb 3 06, 13:18)omg stfu
- durang0
same here... boring ass day job, I do freelance late evening and weekends... I can take just the cool freelance because of the steady paycheck.
if you need the cash or enjoy the work do it.
- ********0
FT
Ready to quit being a worker monkey and put a suit on so-to-speak
more money and tired of the BS. time to give out the orders not take them on a digital level.
- madirish0
funny, i work 12 hour days as a full time freelancer...... then i also work nights and weekends on the same jobs.
- blaw0
jevad: enjoy that kid.
jazx: enjoy those meetings. ha!
- _salisae_0
i get paid $75 per banner
- _salisae_0
per hour
- radar0
i get paid $75 per banana
_salisae_
(Feb 3 06, 13:28)
- tkmeister0
well, i am a permalance daytime and freelance night time.
i have always done it. i don't touch small projects because it'll just end up frustrating me. so the projects i take are on $2k to 10k range. i don't do it continuously though out the year but i pull around 80hrs/wk when i do it.
it requires determination and discipline.
- _salisae_0
hey anonyms you could also subcontract the work out to another designer and take a cut.
- anonyms0
yea very true, thanks for all your coments, just another quick question, as i havent done much freelance just a bit here and there, i know to charge by the hour but what would you say is a resonable rate, so they don't run away scared
- joyride0
you could, but when its freelance you've got your name on it, and thats what brings in more work. I've been/seen people get burned many a times. So you gotta trust that it will get done, and get done to said persons quality. but it could work
- qaddisin0
same here / boring non-creative stuff @ work which mind you the bosses love and then i freelance to keep my skills up cuz i feel i will lose my creative side if i dont and become a robot / no wife no kiddies so its ok to work into the night and did i mention i live in new mexico (yes its part of the usofa)
- ********0
YUP....this is my life. I work 9-5 monday through friday doing in-house corporate design and then I come home and 5 out of 7 nights work from about 9 or 10pm until about 3 or 4am. How do I do it? I'm motivated by 2 things....my passion for design and my desperate need for money so that I can pay off my debts (school loan, credit cards, car, etc). Its hard and I don't usually have a lot of time for anything else and I'm almost always tired but, I freaking love it!
I have anywhere from 25-30 individual freelance projects going on right now outside of my 9-5er.
Take on 1 project and see how you like it. If you can't handle 1 project then just stick to the 9-5.