Jumping off the high dive: Freelancing the first year

Elizabeth Donald
5 min readOct 18, 2019

A cute article from the Freelancers Union caught my attention this morning: This freelancer threw herself a company party and you should, too.

It’s a little too cute — I can’t quite get behind giving myself a speech or a team-bonding activity with just me. But I can definitely get behind the happy hour.

In all seriousness, somehow the one-year anniversary of establishing Donald Media as my freelance company kind of slipped my attention. July 27, 2018 was the day I packed up my desk at the newspaper where I had…

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Elizabeth Donald

Journalist for more than 25 years, freelance writer, editor, photographer, and fiction author. Subscribe at patreon.com/edonald or visit donaldmedia.com.