Thanks for your opinion! Love your articles :]

Amber, I have a question regarding your tip though:

Do you think it’s still not allowed or ethical to put a work you did, while you were in the company, in your portfolio if:

- You did 100% of the work (but you won’t mention that)
- You will mention the company that you were employed there during time
- The client knows that you did 100% of the work and won’t mind having it in your portfolio

What do you think?

What’s holding me back? Well, I have never officially made a decision to become a freelancer, and don’t really know all the reasons why I would or wouldn’t want to do it. It’s crossed my mind a few times the past few months, though. And according to your 6 month guide here, I am just about at the 2 month mark. I have done everything you said to do before that point over the past 8 months or so, just never finished the last 2 months.

I will say though, I have been recently been getting a lot of requests to design websites, and even in the past week it seemed be way more. Granted, they are all family members and relatives of mine or my girlfriends. I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence that so many people I’m related to all of a sudden want me to design a site for them.

I’d like to think that it isn’t, and instead the beginning of what could possibly become my future as a freelancer. Or something like that. I have read all about how it takes time to build your blog reader base, and blah blah all that stuff. But to me it has seemed to be a long time with not much change, and not much acknoledgement on social media sites, for as long as I’ve been doing it anyways.

I could babble on about this, and stuff. But I have work creating more stuff to contrubute to the world desigm amd development :)

I have already gotten distracted from it long enough with this post :P

I’m definitely bookmarking/sharing this though. Very good read.

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