Can Freelancers Really Rest?
The main perk of being a freelancer is being in charge of your own schedule. You get to decide when you work and who you work for. Cheap articles on freelancing are riddled with sentences like that. It’s rarely this simple.
On the contrary, freelancers and entrepreneurs often work more than people with full-time jobs. Because no one tells them when to go home.
I know freelancers who have made a bad habit of not working when they don’t have work. The consistent freelancers I know show up almost every day anyway, even if there is no work. They do another round of outreach. They tighten up their sales funnels. They chip away at passion projects. I try to show up consistently to work a full day, even if I don’t always have paid projects.
But some days. Some days. Some days it’s good to stop working when you have no work. (Especially the day after your favorite baseball team is eliminated from the playoffs with a bogus call. I digress.) This is one of the main perks of being a freelancer, after all. And when the day calls for it, and there isn’t work to be done, it’s ok to clock out after lunch on a Friday.
Rest up. Another week lies ahead, my friends.
