Los Peores 10 Enemigos del Freelancer
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Pues listo. Decidiste ser freelancer. Freelancer, autónomo, trabajar por tu cuenta. Ser el gran dueño de tu tiempo sin rendirle cuentas a nadie (yeah sure). Quizás es una etapa entre tu viejo y tu nuevo empoleo o algo más concreto: una decisión para toda la vida. Tienes varios clientes y esperas que el flujo de trabajo no baje. Los clientes son el alma del freelancing, por tanto las joyas más importantes de nuestros servicios. Aunque el cliente no siempre tenga la razón es importante saber escucharle.
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Tags: autonomos, dinero, errores autonomos, errores freelancers, freelancers, freelancers jobs, freelancing, problemas autonomos, problemas freelancers, trabajo freelancers
My life resumé and future plans
Posted by F | Filed under Generic, Planning
So here I am. A year and a half ago I left my country Venezuela to have a little taste on the adventurer side of me. I went to New York and Phildelphia in USA, Brighton & London in UK, revisited Lisbon, Porto & Madrid in Portugal and Spain and then took a step back to “settle” in Brighton, UK.
Why I wanted to settle? Because I knew money was running through the sew and I would need more sooner or later. And actually I didn’t have a plan, so I had to made one for myself. Then I wanted to look for a job and “settle”. What a joke of plan. Then I found a job. But my internal adventurer spirit didn’t want to let me alone. I asked for permission in my crappy job and fled to Portugal to solve some things for almost two months, went back, stayed one more month in the bloody job I used to have and then quit.
If you sum all of my flights, short and long stays, you’ll find out that I am a kind of heroo. When you let go the fear of owning a life (that actually owns you with all its material world), then you are free to do whatever you want. When fear’s gone, your options are infinite. And when you have options, you don’t have fear. It’s a really good spiral to enlightenment.
But, I don’t really consider myself like a hero. The reason? I’m not one for the simple reason that I haven’t made something worthy in the last six months -anything that I would have loved to, like learn some new skills, etc-. And besides that, I don’t have yet and automated source of money that works without me, which will make me more than a superhero. Probably the lack of focus has distracted me from a real inspiration to accomplish my mission.
A while ago, I use to talk with Gaby, a dear friend of mine, to go around the world discovering new places, people and idiosyncrasies. The way I though I was going to make a living was by selling photographs and articles. And somehow I came to do it that way. I have been doing some freelance works for Terra Colombia during 2008, as well as other publications in Latin America. But yet is not enough to live out of that.
Would I be able to do it? I’ve no idea. By the moment I am working on the automation of money, hopefully my plans will do for that matter.
But, now I know I want to do next, in 6 months from now on:
- Move to Lisbon
- To have an automated source of money
- Learn to sail
- Be able to run a marathon (hence, running one)
Don’t miss the next episode!
Tags: automated source of money, future plans, hero, lazyness, money
More work, less email
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I worked faster than ever today. The secret? I’ve only checked three times my email account today. Nobody died. Wow, actually I can’t believe how fast I manage to work today with all this email detox stuff.
I worked for around 7 hours in a row (well, having half hour break for lunch) accomplishing almost all of the duties planned for today, I delayed the calls to the bank and stuff because those require so many time. But it is a priority now. Top on the list. Probably I’ll do it now while having a small stroll around before my daily run or going and buying some bread or something. Or first thing morning tomorrow.
Ah! amazing! To be honest, I am aiming to work only 4-6 hours daily with all this prioritization stuff. I think I can make it, for real.
Sara, I saw your comment. Why don’t you write me an email with exactly what would you like to know. remember: flavorfla at gmail
F*ck, do it, don’t check your email that often, you will note how productive you could become!
Tags: better work, digital detox, electronic detox, email detox, hours, less email, more work, more work less email, productivity, small hours, work
2008/2009
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Achievements 2008:
- I loved my 2008. I had like 3 months or more vacation.
- I quitted my job.
- I started freelancing.
- I have my first contract.
Coming next 2009:
- More contracts.
- Moving to Lisbon (hopefully)
- Having another 3 months vacations lol.
mañana, ay mañana!
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Bjork ver voy. 7pm en el Hammersmith Apollo de Londres.
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