It's 8:30am and I have just returned from dropping off my daughter at school. I look at my calendar and try not to panic as there is only one thing on my calendar this week ( a two-hour consultation on Friday afternoon). To calm myself down I think back over the roller coaster ride that was the last three months of my new career. As long as you keep fishing lines in the water the fish always bite. Try to enjoy the down time as much as earning money, I tell myself.
Thursday of last week was a holiday and Friday was a sandwich day so none of my clients wanted to start any new projects. I'm hoping this week several of them will contact me about new jobs. I want to take you, the reader, along for the ride to show how unpredictable a week in the life of a freelancer can be.
I used the morning to work on some projects that don't have to be rushed. I want to submit a proposal for the 2017 TESOL Conference in Seattle and the deadline is the end of the month. There is also a workshop next Wednesday that I need to start outlining the content for. I also sent an email to the president of a research center that I worked with in the past, touched base with a couple of clients via KakaoTalk, and received a recommendation on LinkedIn for some work I did with the NHI last month.
Lunch break with Game of Thrones and the final episode of The Good Wife kept me busy for the next two hours. There were a couple of messages in between but it was mostly free time.
Nothing popped up after lunch so I did some grocery shopping. Usually I get a ton of emails while I'm out (a watched pot never boils) but this time there were no bites. The waiting game continues. I surfed the web for interesting articles and updated my professional website with projects in May.
The first job of the day comes in at 6:15pm, a short editing job from my first client. They pay by the hour and this will be a "minimum" project. I also started chatting with a friend about doing a workshop at his research center and suggesting a workshop to one of his contacts. We'll see if anything comes of it.
There's still a chance that a late editing job will come in but I'm going to post this at 7:30pm. Let's hope tomorrow is a little busier.
Thursday of last week was a holiday and Friday was a sandwich day so none of my clients wanted to start any new projects. I'm hoping this week several of them will contact me about new jobs. I want to take you, the reader, along for the ride to show how unpredictable a week in the life of a freelancer can be.
I used the morning to work on some projects that don't have to be rushed. I want to submit a proposal for the 2017 TESOL Conference in Seattle and the deadline is the end of the month. There is also a workshop next Wednesday that I need to start outlining the content for. I also sent an email to the president of a research center that I worked with in the past, touched base with a couple of clients via KakaoTalk, and received a recommendation on LinkedIn for some work I did with the NHI last month.
Lunch break with Game of Thrones and the final episode of The Good Wife kept me busy for the next two hours. There were a couple of messages in between but it was mostly free time.
Nothing popped up after lunch so I did some grocery shopping. Usually I get a ton of emails while I'm out (a watched pot never boils) but this time there were no bites. The waiting game continues. I surfed the web for interesting articles and updated my professional website with projects in May.
The first job of the day comes in at 6:15pm, a short editing job from my first client. They pay by the hour and this will be a "minimum" project. I also started chatting with a friend about doing a workshop at his research center and suggesting a workshop to one of his contacts. We'll see if anything comes of it.
There's still a chance that a late editing job will come in but I'm going to post this at 7:30pm. Let's hope tomorrow is a little busier.
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