Oh, the things I am learning.

Sometimes I look back and laugh at my prior naïveté. Hahaha! I thought all I needed to do was find some work and then write stuff! I thought that was going to be the hard part! Heehee. Oh, don’t you just want to go back in time and smack me? I sure do.

Whether or not you call it “running your own business,” I have news for the newbies out there: Freelancing is running your own business. And while I suppose that if you can’t accomplish the job for which you were hired, things like revenue tracking are greatly simplified (e.g., you have no revenue), as time goes on your skill set needs to expand into things that start to sound a lot like “office management,” whether you’re working from an office or not. Read the rest of this entry »