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The $15,000-A-Month Freelancing Fee That Wasn’t Worth It
When the Money Isn’t Worth the Stress
You know that feeling you get when you lose your cell phone? Panic and overwhelming anxiety are what I’m going to describe in this story.
The good news is I learned one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a freelancer; when to let go of a client and the big, fat fee.
Can money make up for stress? Not for long, at least not in my experience. Trust me. I’ve tried it more than once. Stress has almost killed me.
Because of my dance with stress, anxiety, and trauma, I’m more like a peaceful freelancing warrior now. I’ve become aware of the cost of taking money when the pressure can crush me.
My goal for this article is to help other freelance creatives and traditionally unemployable-types to find their way to success more peacefully.
The Business of Life Lessons
Like most lessons in my life, small business freelancer problems come the hard way, often with a jolt to my head, heart, and soul. When this happens, I say to myself, “Self, ouch, that hurt. Better not do that again.”
More than once upon a time during my seventeen happy years of being a creative, outlying, misfit freelancer, I took a…
