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The Freelance Dream and Reality Check

March 24th, 2010

This week, I’ve written my first guest post, Freelancing—Dream or Reality? for the new blog Freelance & Create. My post covers the differences between my youthful vision of freelancing and the reality today. As a companion read, I highly recommend reading Manda’s full post, 10 reasons Freelance Designers Get Screwed. Below is an excerpt. I [...]

Recession? Depression? Nah…oDesk’s Got A Gig!

February 28th, 2009

OK. I’ll admit it…I’m an oDesk junkie. Signed as a provider last year. Couldn’t help myself from browsing daily—even though I’m seriously overqualified/overpriced/over experienced/or just over oDesk standards. Silly me! Set my pricing by industry standbys like experience, GAG, AIGA, competitor research, and the old “gotta pay my bills, add profit margin to expenses, divide [...]