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| And if and when that one clients pulls all the work - its bad. Real bad. Too many eggs in one basket. Mike On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Dave Marks wrote: > As someone in the same boat: I was a freelance editor for 21 years, have worked as a full time media producer for an organization for almost 8 years, > and now I may be let go next week.... > Freelance is not the worst life. My gold standard was to have an "evergreen" client who I could count on for X number of days a year, and then > fill in the holes around this calendar. There are good and bad things to this approach. The good is you build relationships inside the company, > and gain a trust level. The bad can be is that the evergreen uses up so much of your time that you have to pass on other projects, which > could lead to more outside networking. I definitely had the label of "______ company's guy" and it was hard to prove to other networking people > that I had more up my sleeve than what I did for X Company. > > Network like a mad man. It pays off. Take the stupid jobs, it can always lead to something better. > > Now that I've given myself this little pep talk, I'll retreat to the phone to wait for THE CALL. > > Best of luck, > Dave Marks > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
