Comments on: 5 Things I've Learned Working Freelance

By: The Passionate Sabrina Dent | Devlounge

The Passionate Sabrina Dent | Devlounge — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:48:28 +0000

[...] actually wrote a blog entry on this one day when I was wrapping up a project that had gone to hell in a handbasket. I still believe [...]

By: Your proud papa

Your proud papa — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:50:16 +0000

Glad to see I’ve been moderated in.

By: Your proud papa

Your proud papa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:09:10 +0000

You also have an impressive and clever group of similarly-situated colleagues. Enlightening to read their comments.

By: Your proud papa

Your proud papa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:02:01 +0000

Just stumbled on this piece. I am once again blown away by your wisdom, and the amazing flair with which you express it.

By: MacAonghusa

MacAonghusa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:53:25 +0000

Good post, very interesting observations.

Do you find in the current climate you need to be a bit more flexible or is there enough work out there to be a bit more selective?

By: Kieran Daly

Kieran Daly — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:01:22 +0000

Hear hear on all the points.

I especially like the one about clingy clients. Even worse are the tyre kickers who suck the life out of you before the yeven become clients. They only have one more small question.

I do web design part time and my evenings are when I hammer on but with the tyre kickers you can lose hours with their inane questions – caller ID saves the day most times.

And down time away from device time is critical sorry to hear you have had illness – not good – beach with wireless laptop in Spain is where we want to be!!

By: Clemente Gomez - kreativeKing

Clemente Gomez - kreativeKing — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:14:59 +0000

Great Post. The last one is one of the most important ones I think. Me time is always the best time =D

Agencies Suck !!

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:48:31 +0000

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By: Orla Duncan

Orla Duncan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:19:06 +0000

Hear hear!!! Great post Sabrina. Myself and my biz partner Heidi both work from home and your 5 points pretty much sum up our mantra. We haven’t gone down the agency route yet, as every time it comes up we discuss and decide that we want to do our own thing, meet our clients and run the project our way (coz our way is best ;) )

I might have to be a little stricter on point 5 – it’s so tempting to whittle away the hours in front of my lovely laptop.

By: Nick McGivney

Nick McGivney — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:53:59 +0000

Agency would be terrified NOT to sit between you and client. What if… what if they realised they weren’t actually… necessary?

Great roundup. I’ll try to cut down on the 27 hour days.