While I work 40 (and sometimes more) hours a week at Startup company, I still freelance a bit on the side. I’ve got one really great client who gives me interesting, challenging work—surprise! it’s a startup—and who pays well. I’ve let the rest of my lower-paying clients go, with promises that I will contact them in the future if I have free time and need to take on some work.
Lori’s post Too Busy? Charge More on Words on the Page struck home for me. Too often I’d run home from work, instead of going to the gym or getting groceries or any of those day-to-day chores that needed to get done, and work steadily on a project that paid me peanuts.
I could have raised my rates for these peanuts projects, but instead I chose to assign more value to a less tangible thing—my free time. I dropped the Peanuts Projects, and have been enjoying 5 or 6 free nights a week. Right now, I have the luxury to be able to do that.
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