About a month or two ago, I started a new little blog series around the small/indie Business. As I start shaping my own creative business - I thought it would be handy for me to share with you any tips, thoughts, advice and random musings that I come across in my quest to take over the world with pretty things.So far in this series (which is posted every Tuesday) I have covered
- What makes a good blog?
- Talking about money -with a very basic income/expenditure spreadsheet download.
- Tips and useful advice for your first craft market (including set up and things to remember)
- Things to learn from your first craft market (and what to take away from it, if it doesn't go as you had hoped).
Today's post - is a more light hearted look at the life of a freelancer who works from home - Enjoy!
Working from home is great, in fact it's pretty fabulous because more often than not - it means you are your own boss. But, there is also another sharp edge to that shiny sword...
ie:
This is true.
In fact - way more often than I'd like to admit.
You justify this with the "well - nobody is going to see me and I shan't waste my fancy clothes. Besides, i like to be COMFY when I get mah shizz done."
Sometimes, your humble yoga pant will be in the washing basket.
This is fateful.
You may end up in your PAJAMA PANT.
Which is a whole new level of "freelancer-no-no"
But don't worry, you will find a way to justify it.
(just last weekend in fact, I attempted applying eye-shadow to my face with my thumb.
This is partly due to our overnight bag (CONTAINING ALL MY LOVELY MAC MAKE UP BRUSHES) being kidnapped by a train when we weren't looking - but that's a whole different story. Either way - I looked positively raccoon-ish.)
Freelance boys, you may start to "dabble" in "other" things too.
Don't be afraid - it's natural.
The English Language will begin to evade you -
as I have just noticed from that incoherent cartoon-sentence above.
You will be GENUINELY surprised that the fridge has not managed to miraculously change contents in the last 3 minutes you have checked it. You will actually be SO surprised that you will have to go back and check it. Again.
Any excursion to leave the house is like a GIANT ADVENTURE. When your husband calls to say "shall I bring something for dinner for us on the way home?", your immediate response is,
"NOOOOO!!! LET ME DOOOO IT. LET ME BRAVE THE SHOPPING AISLES!! OH SWEET GLORIOUS ADVENTURE!!"
Your husband, will generally not argue with crazy lady.
These debates may last hours.
Just think about that for a second.
You guys, I am two conversations away from naming our couch.
You will drink WAY more coffee than is humanly necessary.
You will eat more than you need to.
Laundry and other household chores will become very important and immediately compelling. (Actually - I'm quite good at ignoring those).
You will find it very difficult to "switch off" from work at the end of the day. End of the day? What end? End of what? It's the end? When is the end? It is day? Work day? Home? Home work, day? I'm so confused. Your "work life" and your "home life" begin to get all mashed up like a giant pile of mash.
It becomes EXTREMELY confusing when your work life is your home life is your work life is your home life -
AND!
If you don't believe me -
just ask my couch.
___________ {the end} ________
17 comments :
I can totally relate! Tea 6 times a day? Of course!!
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Let me quickly go and brush my teeth
Haha all so true! Isn't working from home fun? ;-)
Damn, I wanna work from home!
I think I'd better change out of my yoga pants! I can totally relate!
HA! YES! Oh man...going to the post office can be the highlight of my day, just to get in a little human interaction. But my books and illustrations always understand me better ;)
Haha, so true, I can relate to every single thing you said! I don't mind the yoga pants so much ;) But I do hate the non-existent interaction with another person.
No!!!! hahahah
*silently walk to the bathroom to take a bath*
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haha YOGA PANTS for the WIN!! :)
hahaha.... me too.
foh shiszle!! more tea?
working from home is fun! (esp when the couch is so chirpy!)
haha that's how I feel about MY cartoons too! I just had a look at your work - so cute! the "What's a Warren?" totally caught my eye! love it! x
Aw thank you! I love that one! I'm about to finish another little book up, Paige and her English bulldog Lola. Too fun! :)
Spot on. Although I have found a very efficient way of separating working day from working evening. Wine.
hahaha wine is the ONLY way to separate "work day" from "home day"
Just got my check for $500.
Sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them about how much money you can earn by taking paid surveys online...
So I show them a video of myself getting paid $500 for participating in paid surveys.
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