Enter the co-working space, the lighthouse of the freelance community. For up to $700 per month, you’ll pay to experience the same environment you would get for free at a salaried job, complete with people having obnoxiously loud phone calls next to your desk and some faceless monster eating your lunch out of the fridge.
When you freelance, no one is paying you to be on call, even though you’re likely spending as much mental energy on your client’s schedules, project details, and cultural minutiae as a salaried worker would — only multiplied by however many clients you have.