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Freelancing Difficulties – What to do?

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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!

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