Why you should set hours as a Freelancer

The best part about freelancing is that you can do it wherever or whenever you want. If you’re a morning person, you can work hard in the morning and relax in the evening. If waking up before 10am if your actual nightmare, you don’t have to! (or rarely will, at least) You can work in airports and at your house or a Starbucks or your friend’s house or a co-working space, it doesn’t matter, as long as it works for you.

The best part of freelancing is also the problem with freelancing: the flexibility. Sometimes, it’s easy to become a little too flexible and ignore the work piling up on your computer or desk, the call of the couch a little too loud for you to resist. It’s also easy to be available to work 24/7, which can lead to burn out and resentment of your craft and freelancing as a whole. You wouldn’t work 24/7 at an office, so why are you allowing yourself to do so at home?

Setting your own hours as a freelancer can be an incredible relief that you never knew you needed. While answering an e-mail outside of your working hours is different than doing the actual work, keeping your main correspondence to the ‘normal’ working hours of the day can make you feel more put together and professional. What’s more professional than standard business hours?