
Most important freelancing lessons you've learned in 2018
2018 brought new challenges that surely taught us a lot of things. What are some of the most important lessons you've learned about freelancing this year, either through firsthand experience or as an advice? Share away!
December 24, 2018, 4:29 am
Responses (60)
Confidence in my work and confidence in the effort that I give and the confidence in what I can offer.
I've also learned to be more patient and understanding.
Another is that rejection, though unprofessionally placed, doesn't mean you're bad at something and you should lose confidence. It just means you should try again, somewhere else and learn from your mistake.
When you fail to deliver on your own business word, it would make your clients to lose trust and confidence in your business.
Learning to say 'no' to excessively pushy clients is also an important lesson. I finished the work that I was paid to do. I can't and won't adjust it two months after the client approves it and receives it, initially with high praise, only for them to demand that I do some parts over because of new data that came in a month after the submission! And certainly, not for free.
It’s Murphy’s Law.
You think you can postpone a project for two hours so you can take a nap, but then in the afternoon, you suddenly have a pile of things to do.
It’s ridiculous! It’s as if those things just pop out of thin air. Your son tells you that he has some stuff to bring to school tomorrow, the wife phones and asks to be picked up at the mall, daughter says her tooth is aching so you need to rush to the dentist, and so on.
And then, when you finally back at home and turn on the laptop, Windows thinks it’s a good time for an update.