From Bunny Slippers to Business Plans
Earlier in the week, we discussed how the very act of being prepared can strengthen one’s self-confidence.
Today, I’d like to go over the various forms such preparation can take.
If you’re teetering on the edge of starting up your own freelance business, such steps toward readiness will take your plans from romantic to realistic.
Photo: ‘Derek J’ by Phil Watt
It’s been almost a year since I left behind a viable book publishing career for the terrifying uncertainty of freelancedom.
A questionable move considering that, three years before, I had been applying to just about any full-time staff job I could conceivably be considered qualified for.
To make an excruciating story less excruciating, let’s just say that I wasn’t feeling quite right within the corporate environment.
Now I work a number of freelance gigs, most of them from home, and I’ve never been happier. So, of course, I want everyone else to try it, too!
But as much as I advocate trying out new career paths, jumping blindly isn’t the smartest way to go.
