4 Responses so far

1. 1. Catherine Shaffer on Jan 31st, 2007 at 2:21 pm

   Try to replace each one with higher paying opportunities. I hate to decline a loyal client, but as some of my earlier onces have moved on, I’ve tried to find better-paying outlets, and that has been really helpful. I agree that one of the perks of freelancing is having a diversified income stream. After three years, I am also finally starting to relax when I am between jobs. For a long time, I would feel that I was never going to find work as good as what I’d had before, but I don’t worry about that anymore.

2. 2. Steve Buchheit on Jan 31st, 2007 at 3:20 pm

   Say, we have blogs about Ohio? Glad it’s not going to impact you too much. Here’s to finding not only a better paying gig to replace it, here’s to finding a more enjoyable gig as well.

   One of the first internet related jobs I had was for OhioOnline. I did graphics and HTML programing. Hardly paid at all, but I learned a lot. they also had a problem with people in Ohio not going online to read about Ohio.

3. 3. tobias s buckell on Jan 31st, 2007 at 4:16 pm

   Catherine, yeah, I’ve consistently climbed up the ladder,

   Steve, yeah, we do, surprise. In the commments of the last post I list all the cool ohio blogs I’d followed for the blog.

4. 4. Mark Terry on Jan 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pm

   I’m increasingly working more and more for fewer clients–I suppose it’s the 80/20 rule in action. It makes me a bit uneasy–if that client or the work collapses for some reason, I’m screwed. But I think if you’re going to survive (or even succeed) in freelancing, you have to accept that your clients evolve and change, and that you’ll survive if they do.

   I know my wife gets a little uneasy when I act like I this big client drives me crazy and I don’t give a damn whether I stay with them or not, but the truth is, I don’t know if I’ll be writing for them next year or not, or the year after next. I know it would probably only take–as has happened to me before–for the guy who I work with the most to take a different job for me to suddenly find myself out of work. It doesn’t always happen that way, but often the new boss brings on their own people.

   Still, mostly I’m having a good time, especially when the check’s actually show up.