Freelance

Who needs it?!

I'm sick of side work. Honestly I am. I'm dealing with mostly loose deadlines but between two children, full time work and trying to stay healthy, it's madness. I'm locking myself in the basement at night only to want to break out. One client is worth it, the other isn't too bad and another is on the fence. Added up those it's little things that are driving me mad. A little change here and there, so on and so forth. ARGH!

So here I am, listening to the radio. The radio host is going over statistics on the wedding industry. It's BOOMING. I just recently relented to an attempt to get into the wedding video business. It was stupid. I rushed in half prepared, really wanting to try and make extra money for our second child that is here now. While it was fun to hang out with my friends doing the 2-3 freebies for the exposure, overall, it was blah. What the hell was I thinking? Well I wouldn't have even attempted it if not for, well, I won't get into that.

Suddenly, I'm bitter. What the hell?

Out of all of the projects I've done out of the past year, weddings, side work, etc. Guess how much I've gotten paid, TOTAL. Guess!

I'll round up to $400. I will admit that I'm getting free membership for one project I did/am doing, but that's not a direct monetary payment, still very nice though. So $400... yeah. I read a website on someone in the same situation. They got SO frustrated they just started telling people that in order to create/build something for them it'd cost something outrageous. A logo for example, 1000 dollars, flat out. Yeah, if you want a logo, it's a grand, simple as that. What if you make it HUGE and turn out to be highly successful. That 1000 dollars will be petty at the end of the day. If you go belly up, oh well, should have had a better business plan, but I sure enjoyed yours! :D

So that's what I'm getting at. Because my time at home is invaluable. I'd so much rather spend time with my family than get a measily 20 an hour building a website or something. I'm getting more bitter by the second. Feels good! At any rate a 10 hour job is 200 dollars. That's nice to have in pocket, yes but I've just lost 10 hours of relaxation, doing home chores, family time, etc. Not worth it IMO. So what to do? Up the price! 50 an hour sounds about right... yes, that's 500 dollars, hmm that' a mini-vacation to Kennedy Space Center. Liking this more and more.

Well I'd better work, they're paying me here.

NO MORE (nearly) FREE SHIT!

DCF