Freelancers, you have three months until the end of the year. Actually, you have a little less than that since it’s Sept. 20. But…red alert: you need to start planning on how you’ll handle the money lag for the holidays before you get there.
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So…things have been crazy busy in my work from home writing life.
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As I have learned in the last seven years, there are three distinct stages of a work from home business.
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If you’re on Upwork, at some point you’re going to run into a crappy client. Just like any other relationship, you run into a jerk. And sometimes, there aren’t any red flags. And sometimes there are and you ignore those red flags. So, how do you get out of a bad Upwork contract?
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This morning I had to call my car insurance company. I wanted to make an early payment. I’m on hold. While I’m on hold, I’m talking to Bull about a client’s website and the SEO plan. Of course, right when this conversation is happening, the insurance representative picks up the phone.
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I started working from home seven years ago. I have no other source of income. Writing, editing, and SEO is what I do to support myself and my family. Over the course of the last seven years, I’ve learned a lot. Here are seven key lessons in no particular order.
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So, yesterday the pain in my ear and behind my ear became so bad in the afternoon that I ended up in the ER. My ear started leaking fluid after a giant pop. Because I was told it was mastoiditis during an urgent care visit and to go to the ER if my ear started leaking fluid, that’s what we did.
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Today (July 14) I’m taking a rare half-day as a sick day. I worked the entire time I had COVID (all two months: December 2020 through Feb. 2021).
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I asked on my Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn earlier this week what my followers and connections wanted to be when they were children and how they felt it impacted them in what they do now. Most of the answers just said what they wanted to do and how they never fulfilled their dreams. No one really said how those things impacted them.
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I am in the middle of my seventh year as a FT professional writer. Oh, and I work from home. I started working from home as a writer in 2013 on a part-time basis. By 2014, I had enough clients to make this my only means of work (yes, with kids and a spouse and pets…even with people screaming it can’t happen). As someone who does not have a traditional job or someone who treats writing as a side-hustle, I’ve learned a lot over the last seven years…but the biggest lesson?
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