Freelance Life

As a freelancer, effective time management is a crucial skill that can have a significant impact on your life, both personal and professional. As we’re all painfully aware, time is a valuable and finite resource, and it’s not something you can get back. …

Why we should be creating more than we consume every day. There is this ever-evolving dichotomy in the west and even around the world between how much content people consume versus how much people create. Our generation has been teaching us that the more we advance our technology, the more…

I get to the café fifteen minutes early. Always best when you’re meeting a potential client; there’s nothing worse than rushing in late, muttering a breathless apology as you wrench arms out of unwilling coat sleeves. Choosing a quiet corner table, I order a black coffee and glance through my…

People ask me a lot why I’m so keen for everyone to start freelancing. What’s the difference if someone is employed or if someone works for a company on a freelance basis? In the end, you’re just doing a job for someone else. The difference is how they treat you…

For more success and a happier life — As a freelancer, you have the freedom to work on your own terms and schedule, but with that freedom comes the responsibility to manage your work and personal life effectively. Balancing work and life can be a challenging task, especially when you’re working from home and the lines between work…

By Adilah Didi Adi | January 07, 2023 · 7:33 PM E.T. | @AdilahDidiAdi Happy New Year, Beloved, Black, Beings!💚💚💚

As a freelance writer with no fixed contracts, Christmas makes me anxious. It’s not just because the whole world shuts down for a week or so (meaning I won’t earn anything), but because the festive season is a bridge between two years. And as I trudge across that bridge, my…

For whatever reason, my Indian clients assume, even when I am coughing, sneezing, wheezing and video calling from the hospital ward, work itself will continue uninterrupted. Update 1 on December 4th 2022 As with all my blog posts, this is a summary of several such experiences over the last 10…

November wrap, the post-holiday push, airplanes and heavy metal. — I scheduled this to go out on Friday morning. If all goes well, I’m somewhere over the American Midwest this morning, cruising along with the collective of Asheville residents who were up on the early flight to Denver. …