I’ve started the new year with an interesting conundrum. When, or even if, is it right to take someone else on? Are there ways of partnership, collaboration, subcontracting or just plain asking for help when you’ve got more work than you need? I can’t believe I’m saying that it out loud, but I…
Category: Contracts
When Your Safety Net Sets on Fire
Heading for the end of October, I realised my new year was looking dry, or more accurate desert-like. Both my current client contracts are due to end mid-December, which is great for my Christmas break, but less good for my bank balance/sanity come January. So, I’d started a more concerted effort to find…
When to Walk Away
In the same way that it’s important to listen when you have a good gut feeling about something, it’s also important to listen when you feel like the red flags are starting to surface. In the last couple of months I’d pursued a few new opportunities, and they looked like great ones– either…
Where to Get Work
When people find out I’m a freelancer, one of the first questions every single time is where I get work from. And it makes sense, given I had no either before I started this journey. So, four months in now – where’s the work coming from? Free Freelance Platforms It was the first…
Balancing Contracts
The goal when I started this freelancer journey was to try and maintain a maximum three-day week, safeguarding the weekend as well as the two days with my daughter, wherever possible. The second challenge was to try and at least maintain the level of income I’d had in employment. What I’ve found is…
Lessons in Evaluation
This week I concluded a two-month long two-report impact evaluation project for an amazing charity. They provide independent advice services on areas such as benefits, immigration, debt and housing for their local community. Their community-led approach and ability to build trust with a community experiencing significant deprivation is hugely impactful (sorry, should have…