Going Freelance was the Busiest Time of my Life

If you don’t fancy working one day, you don’t have to. You can take as many days off as you like. You don’t have to pay as much tax, do you? Myths. All myths.

Today is officially my first day working for myself — and nobody else. I’ve never been busier.

Sales

Day one and sales are lower than ever. I have a strong pipeline but my conversion rate sucks. Must try harder. Maybe a progress blog.

Marketing

The MQLs look good. The MQLs always look good when you work for yourself. But, I’ve run them past the Sales Director (works for the same self) and he has complete faith in me.

Delivery

3 pieces of content out the door. A raft of editorial work completed for another client. A kick-off call for a client (wasn’t joking about MQLs).

HR

Employees well behaved today until early afternoon. A little restless late afternoon, potential RSI from so much typing and left early for the pub.

This was a copy and pasted rambling from my LinkedIn a few years back. If you enjoyed this minor snippet, I like the idea documenting what my actual working life is like now I have returned to full time work as Director of Content Marketing and Communications at Mio.

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