I spent most of today working. When I wasn’t working I was letting my oven self-clean itself and hoping it didn’t set my house on fire. While the oven cleaned itself, I cleaned the oven…
Posts tagged freelance work
Day 49 of 200: 6 Billable Hours
Now that I’m a decade into the freelance lifestyle those closest to me have learned not to laugh when I’m all “Uff-da. I worked six hours today.” It sounds ridiculous. I know. Six hours? Working…
Day 36 of 200: One Small, Sweet Joy of Freelancing
With a decade of freelancing under my belt, I am qualified to give all kinds of unsolicited advice. Like, never wear real clothes if you don’t wanna. Lots of blog posts are all “get dressed…
Leaving the Cube: 10 Years After Corporate America
Yesterday I was on the phone with JTo, who some of you may remember from my days at Hell, Inc. She was the boss of me for many years, although she was only my actual…
Celebrating 5 Years of Paying the Mortgage without a Real Job
On this day in 2009 I lost my last corporate, cubicle-based job. When the economic times got rough, the company blogger had to get going. As far as layoffs go it wasn’t too shabby. Shabby…
Glibness on two years of an unreal job
Yesterday was the second anniversary of getting laid off at my last “corporate” job (the quotes are because The Nerdery is anything but corporate). Can you believe I’ve gone two years without a real job?…