They're just so crazy it might just work
Well folks... looks like I may just try this whole "one man band" thing out. After being continuously shit on for damn near 6+ years, I think I may just be right on the edge of saying "fuck you" to all of them and doing it on my own.
It's pretty much the first gamble in my life where I am more excited for than worried for.
Plus, working in your underwear is like, totally right up my fucking alley.
It's pretty much the first gamble in my life where I am more excited for than worried for.
Plus, working in your underwear is like, totally right up my fucking alley.
- Friday, May 05, 2006 at 10:18 PM
- Posted by JKREW
- 2 Comments
Going out on your own is much tougher than you can realized. Your best option is stay with your job right now and do your thing on the side as you build up clients and resources (financial assets, materials, equipment, etc). Once your side jobs can support your minimum cost of living (rent, food, and gas), then quit your full-time job.
If you quit too early, you will trap yourself into a catch 22. In order to get more business to sustain yourself, you need to market yourself. And in order to market yourself, you need the money, but the money can only come from more business. This is the trap that will kill most startup small businesses.
I hesitantly agree with that anonymous post (and no that isnt me).
The biggest problem about freelancing without a second job is that you need to be going out, finding the work, taking meetings, and then trying to find time to DO the work you spent so long trying to get into house all without getting much of a deposit up front to do the said work. Most times you won't recieve a deposit, they'll just prefer to be billed and if you push the issue, 90% of clients will decide they don't really "need" that job anymore.
It sucks, it really does. You need to build a reliable clientbase before you can really pull roots from the working world... Im not trying to piss on your good idea, but you do need to know its definitely not sunshine and lollipops!
You're damned talented, but its cut-throat in the DC area. Try to figure out how to establish a presence before you try to be one.