Now here’s an issue that likely every freelancer ever to lance freely has had to deal with at some point: the late payment, or worse, the non-payment. It’s a huge problem, especially if you’re still working to establish yourself and every single payment is vital to the continued success of your business. Read More

Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that “Hell is other people.” If we’re being brutally honest, sometimes it really seems like he was right, which sort of makes you wonder if old JP ever tried to run a business. Regardless of how much you love your clients or partner or colleagues, there will always be times when it feels like the biggest impediment to your work is the people you’re doing it with and for. Read More

One cursory internet search for help with multitasking will turn up pages and pages of the very helpful advice: don’t. Yeah, people say multitasking reduces efficiency, that it isn’t an effective way of getting things done… and I’m not saying that’s wrong, in the long term. Here in the real world, however, we know that sometimes multitasking is unavoidable, at least in short bursts. Even as I write this blog I’m switching back and forth between my emails, IMs, to do lists, and keeping an eye on the time to make sure I eat lunch at a normal, civilised lunch-eating hour. Read More