LANCE - It takes a (freelance) village
Hi! I’m Anna Codrea-Rado and this is my newsletter about the highs and lows of working for yourself. I’m a freelance journalist, podcaster and author. If you liked this email, press that little heart button, leave me a comment and forward it to a friend 💙 I used to think that I hated working with other people. I disliked offices, networking events and – to be honest – working on something as a team. So, when I started working for myself, I assumed that I’d be working by myself. At first, I was happy in my bubble. I worked completely alone from home. I wasn’t even interested in working in a coffee shop, let alone a co-working space. I quickly learned how shortsighted that attitude was, and indeed how different it is to work with other people as a freelancer. For starters, fellow freelancers are your colleagues, not your competition. I realised this when something went wrong with a client in the early days; I panicked and looked around the room for someone to help me. My dog stared back at me, blankly. I grabbed my phone, but had no one to call. In that moment, I realised I needed someone on my team. Thankfully, now I have an army of freelance buddies, who are a voice note away; ready to calm me down, pep me up and help me put things into perspective. People who just get it. What I know now is that it takes a village to freelance. When I look at the projects I'm working on right now, the majority of them involve another freelancer. Everything from my co-hosted podcast and co-founded freelance writing awards, to even the ads in this newsletter, which are now run as a collective. And the projects that give me the most stress are the ones I’m working on by myself for a client. What’s different now, however, is that while I’m doing that work alone, I definitely don’t feel alone anymore.
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