Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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Are there freelancers here?

iggy_pink
iggy_pink

Hi, i got a question for you, was it easy from the start to have clients?


Do you have anxiety? why did you decided to go freelance?



sam

arfie
arfie
I am retired now but I have probably worked more contract hours than salaried. Early on I contracted in order to make ends meet during college. Later it was for the sake of being able to support my children and raise them, too.

Yes, I suffer excessive anxiety enough to have earned a psychiatric dx'es for it. My contracts during college pretty much fell into my lap, giving me the impression that it was easy to find clients. Those contracts were mainly painting, carpenter's helper and such. Later, while I was contracting computer aided drafting, it ran to extremes where I was either working myself to death or starving. When I had to hunt for clients, it felt like a non-stop job hunt.

What is your specialty? The fact that you are calling it, "Freelance" makes me think it is one of the artsy fields.
iggy_pink
iggy_pink
i was doing admin work. online. i cant complain with the job, knowing that i have anxiety adn depresison. But what makes me second guess was the never ending job hunt. Its putting me down
arfie
arfie
That hunt for clients during the slow spells is, indeed, a mind-ripper. The exhaustion of keeping up during the fat spells js not allot of fun, either. Oh, for the love of balance. . .

I found allot of support in entrepreneur support circles. Networking with my "competitors" helped allot, too. Instead of competing, we were able to help each other balance the load in quite a number of ways, from the emotional drains to knowledge sharing.
iggy_pink
iggy_pink
thank you for your suggestion, arfie. its an up and down kind of thing. i just have to establish myself. and build my portfolio. prayers works. What is your field? is it carpentry right or do you have other fields jobs as well.
arfie
arfie
Mine is a checkered career. I started Army Signal Corps (Communications) in 1973 and that morphed in to computer aided design in the 80's with everything from construction make ready to AC installation in between. Been a "kept woman"' since 1995 which gave me room to do lots of research in my heart's passion: Watersheds. The movement of "The 3 Sisters" (H2O) fascinates me endlessly. My grandkids are the only ones who dare to fight me for control of the water hose. Is there any dirtier fight trick than gk cutery?
iggy_pink
iggy_pink
Sorry I wasnt able to get what your saying on the last sentence. But i did got some idea about what you did in the past years.

i will pm you.
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