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Dealing with management in your freelance business Wait, what?
Today I invite you to travel with me back to the days of yore, in which I worked as an in-house translator (so like… four years ago). I had a good sized cubicle, a comfortable chair, all the free hot chocolate (and coffee for my coworkers) I could drink, two of the best phone interpreters I’ve ever met beside me, and an entire team of people to support me – to make sure that I was happy. It was great! If something ever went wrong, there was someone there to fix it. I had a job to do and I was supposed to focus on that job – nothing else.
Today, I’m sitting in my home office. I have a beast of a computer, a much bigger desk, and I can work in my pajamas. Winter is slowly seeping in; the trees are bare outside of my two large windows. It’s supposed to snow all next week. I live in this office. I have my dress shirts and shoes in my closet, in case I have a client show up unexpectedly. I have an inflatable mattress for those long projects that require near constant attention. And I have to buy my own snacks. The thing is, though, is that if anything goes wrong, ANYTHING, it’s my responsibility to fix it. I have no army of secretaries or account managers to fix everything.
I am alone and I must behave
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Nixie Adams 
Gert Van Assche 
Yuliya Kinash 
“You have the power to improve your life. You have the tools that you need to be happy. Don’t expect someone else to come along and magically do it for you. ” < Absolutely agree! Nothing will ever change in your life, unless you do something about it. And for freelancer it could be anything: improving your online presence, finding better clients, finding your niche, etc. There are many ways to turn your life around, all you have to do is to take risks and be proactive. Thanks for sharing it on The Open Mic. I'll make it our #PostOfTheDay on all of our social media accounts 🙂 P.S.: By the way, if you're republishing from your personal blog on The Open Mic, you can share the whole blog post. The Open Mic uses canonical URLs to give all the Google juice back to your blog (for example, if you click to share on Facebook you'll see that it links back to your blog). 🙂 P.P.S.: And congrats on publishing your first Open Mic story! High-five from Toronto!