Career
A common question I get asked is “why don’t you list prices on your website?”
The fast answer: one size doesn’t fit all.
Read more “Why I Don’t Price My Services on My Website”
Freelance
“Your hourly rate is … what?”
Before balking at a freelancer’s hourly rate, there are a few things you need to take into consideration.
Read more “Why Freelance Hourly Rates Are Higher Than Employee Hourly Rates”
Career
In spring 2015, my husband texted me a spreadsheet with the names of a bunch of Army officers and locations of their next assignments. His name was highlighted next to “Germany.” Germany. Germany?
I was shocked. True, this was much preferable to many of the alternatives. But it did raise a major question: Where did this put my career?
Read more “So, You Want to Work Abroad? Read This First”
Career
When you have a full-time job, it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of job security. You’re getting a consistent paycheck, you show up each day from around 9 to 5, and you have your list of to-dos.
There’s no way you could have that same consistency with freelance, right?
Read more “Fighting Freelance Anxiety”
Creativity
I hear a lot about job security these days. Being married to someone in the military, it’s clear government jobs come with an unprecedented amount of longevity compared with the private sector.
Of course, there’s a level of unease in any job, including my husband’s. But that’s because he and many of his colleagues have never held a non-government job; their fear is of the unknown. As a freelancer I’ve got 0 job security. And that’s a good thing for me and my clients. Here’s why.
Freelance
Freelance copywriting sounds glamorous to all my friends. “You get to work at a coffeeshop, and travel, and blog!” But as a freelancer, I take on way more roles than simply “copywriter.” Much of it isn’t glamorous. Here are the top 5 (and a half … you’ll see …) jobs I find myself doing on a daily basis, plus ways to tackle these non-copywriting challenges.