I’ve been freelancing full time now for about two months. I still haven’t decided whether I want to try and get a permanent agency job yet, but this is keeping me going for the moment…
Everything has been going great, but over the last week or so I keep finding myself without anything to do, usually because I’m waiting for my clients to feed back amendments. Now, this is not their fault… they are busy running their own businesses, and even if their logos, or websites are really important to them, they can’t be instantly replying to me every time they get an email requesting feedback. It may even be that they need some time to mull over what they think, or decide how to explain it to me in a way in which they will get back exactly what they are picturing in their mind.
However, this poses me with a dilemma… What do I do in these times when I seemingly have nothing to do?… I obviously shouldn’t procrastinate, but it is very hard not to!
During last week I managed to get the new chrisskelton.com up and running properly (inc. this blog), and I also managed to find some potential fonts for the What!? Creative business venture that I am setting up with a friend of mine. After that I had a look around the web to see what jobs were being advertised in local agencies (only to find that next to none even mentioned anything to do with recruitment). But now, here I am again, waiting for feedback, and not knowing what to do.
I could read some blogs to find inspiration, but there is only so much of that you can do when you aren’t currently suffering from creative block! I could read up on SEO – but I did a bit of that already… or I could just look into what else is going on in the creative world… But to be honest I do that to some extent almost every morning while reading various RSS feeds, Twitter posts, and blog updates.
The last thing that I could do is just take on more work so that when one client is reviewing, another has already fed back - but then I am in danger, through no fault of their own, of being too swamped to cope when they all get back to me at the same time! The last thing that I want is for the individual jobs to suffer as a consequence of me being too busy… I’m juggling 3 jobs as it is and I really don’t think that it’s wise to make any more promises for now, at least until they have all progressed a little more.
It’s a bit of a catch 22 and I’m really not sure what the answer is…