Comments on: Seven Lies Freelancers Tell Themselves

By: Is Talent Enough? | My Lounge | Shake hands with the skilled

Is Talent Enough? | My Lounge | Shake hands with the skilled — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:38:44 +0000

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By: michael

michael — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:42:52 +0000

Hi i am a freelancer and i love what i am doing.
By reading your blog post it makes me wanna get more seriously in this career. thank you

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:45:33 +0000

I really enjoyed the read. Truly made complete sense to me. I’ve only recently started to market myself in my local area and I know first hand that you have to market yourself. Although word-of-mouth is great too.

Currently I studying Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days and I’m loving it. I truly thought that updating my skills to learn another totally new programming language would be too tough and take too long for me.

I’m bookmarking this article for future reading.

Thanks for sharing.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:01:54 +0000

“There is such thing as a free lunch” LOL. A big lie if I’ve ever heard one. Yet the majority of people still believe that this can exist somewhere.

By: Christian Rivera

Christian Rivera — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:37:21 +0000

Great article! It’s great because it’s true. Many of us claim to be perfect professionals, but we slip & fall here and there. Being able to bounce back, make the proper adjustments and be open to bettering yourself will make you successful in the long-run. It troubles me to hear others say that freelancing is only a fancy term for being broke. It only says to me that this person enjoys working with new projects, new clients and loves what they do so much that they want to do it all on their own terms. Freelancing is not a well-defined “Do A then Do B” sort of gig. It takes practice to define your own formula; to do what works for you. I’ve been freelancing since I was 15 years old and I’m learning new things everyday.

Keep reading blogs like these and learning new things all the while implementing them into your own workflow. You really hit the nail on the head…ask questions, market yourself, respect what your client wants, but have respect for the work that you do — don’t cheapen yourself for a quick buck.

Thanks!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:02:37 +0000

Wow. If there are freelancers/designers telling themselves these lies, then they aren’t professionals. They are amateurs. Those lies tell me one thing…these are freelancers with big egos and they are cocky as hell (‘cuse my language).

I don’t know what profession out there you can tell your self you don’t need more education.

Also when is asking client questions such a bad thing? How can you do your job properly if you don’t ask questions?

Now the ‘High paying Job is a good job’ lie, I can believe that in some cases – In my personal experience, my first high paying job was great sort of. I couldn’t have asked for a better client. Totally understanding, gave me a good amount of freedom and liked almost everything I did, which made for very few revisions. However, I should have gave a better time frame. I knew it was a large job, but I didn’t quite correctly estimate how much time I would really put in. This I took as a learning experience, but I don’t think I actually believed that a ‘high paying job is always a good job’ and I don’t now, however they certainly aren’t horrible jobs, unless you under price.

Great article, very informative to those that are just starting out.

By: Andrew A.

Andrew A. — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:23:40 +0000

Great article, I regularly don’t comment but your article made me feel that I have to comment, another lie ” Convincing yourself that you understand the project requirements, to avoid nagging the client by your questions”.