This was the most productive day I've had in a while. Got a lot of things done and feeling extra organized.
I'm heading to my parents' tomorrow to stay there for a few days so I'm trying to get a lot of things done as I want as little work to do there as possible.
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The Freelancer's Dilemma: Unraveling the Anxiety of Sharing Your Career Choice with Family
Understanding the Freelancer’s Anxiety
When it comes to revealing your freelancing career to your family, it’s common to experience a sense of anxiety and apprehension. You might find yourself grappling with questions like, “Will they understand my career choice?” or “Am I making the right decision?” This anxiety often stems from the fear of judgment or lack of validation from loved ones.
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The Freelancer's Dilemma: Unraveling the Anxiety of Sharing Your Career Choice with Family
Understanding the Freelancer’s Anxiety
When it comes to revealing your freelancing career to your family, it’s common to experience a sense of anxiety and apprehension. You might find yourself grappling with questions like, “Will they understand my career choice?” or “Am I making the right decision?” This anxiety often stems from the fear of judgment or lack of validation from loved ones.
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ATTENTION PEOPLE THAT USE TWITTER FOR WORK-
Twitter has made the mind boggling decision to change DM settings without telling anyone, so you can only receive message requests from verified users. This could present difficulty in clients trying to reach you for work. You can check yours in settings -> privacy and safety -> Direct messages. It'll look like this:
Make sure you change it back to "allow message requests from everyone" so clients can reach you. HOWEVER- there seems to be a bug (or feature? who knows anymore) that will change it back after a few hours to allow message requests only from verified users. Make sure you check regularly to make sure your settings are the way you want.
Twitter has been a mess since the takeover, but this decision is going to severely impact the ability for clients to reach you. I think it's a good idea to make sure your external website is in your Twitter bio, and pin any other contact info to your profile.
To all the other people out there that use Twitter for work, good luck to us both 🙃
(Please reblog for visibility, this choice affects people's livelihoods and they need to know)
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Femme Fatale Guide: Top Career Tips To Set Yourself Up For Success
Figure out where your skills and passions align. Then determine the lifestyle/work culture you thrive in and what sacrifices you're willing to make in your chosen career path (for some, it's always traveling/talking to people 24/7, working late hours, unpredictable/unconventional hours, potentially lower pay/less predictable income, etc.). It truly depends on your top values, your personality, and your goals/priorities in life.
First focus on getting incredibly talented at your craft. Find a mentor(s) who will push you with their feedback/suggestions. Take classes/skills courses/read books & articles to gain more applicable knowledge/hard skills. Join clubs, apply to internships, volunteer, and request informational interviews in your desired field.
Make your skills marketable. Create a professional resume and/or neat portfolio/collection of work samples. Discover and articulate your USP (that should essentially serve as the backbone of your elevator pitch). Frame your skills through a customer/business-centric lens. How does your experience/skillset solve their problems and help a company/client achieve their goals?
Build a network for yourself. Don't be shy to reach out to companies/individuals who inspire you. Speak with your secondary school teachers and professors for connections. Create peer-to-peer networks, too, so you can grow together. Be a fearless networker and connector. Help others, do favors, and make the person glad they met/hired you. Make it your objective to be memorable through your work ethic/providing high-quality work products and showing up with a motivated & overall positive attitude allows people to like and trust you with their time, clients, money, etc.
Master the art of a killer email/cold pitch. Especially in today's world, learning how to sell yourself through intriguing emails/LinkedIn messages is the key to unlocking potential success. One client or opportunity can create momentum that will be useful years down the line, too.
When in doubt, follow up – on an email, pitch, job opportunity, connection, etc.
Be ruthless and relentless with your research. For new contacts, connections, opportunities, and information to support your pitches/job interviews/networking conversations, new technologies, and trends within your field. Read everything credible you can get your hands on. Display working knowledge and practical applications of these concepts and how they can benefit the person in front of you/their business.
Create systems. For how you structure emails/pitches, conduct research, different types of workflows/ work template structures for different types of projects, time-blocking, client funnels, etc.
Get comfortable with rejection. Use it as a primer for self-reflection and refining your craft/processes or help you pivot your approach to help you achieve your goals. Never take business decisions on behalf of a company personally (and vice versa).
Give yourself breaks, but don't give up. Tapping out for good is the only surefire way to fail at an endeavor. Be flexible in your path, but zeroed in on your goal(s). Learn when to quit or pivot, and when it's time to coast or seek growth.
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Noi Noi Noi
Another life drawing session I bought from Zeet Studios! I watched Dorohedoro a while ago and loved it, and Noi is actually my favorite character...so when I saw that Zeet was doing a Dorohedoro themed figure drawing session featuring Noi I had to get it. These are 4 mins, 10 mins, and 20 mins respectively
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Just a quick virtues au thing that I sketched during yesterday’s lunch break and colored on today’s, teehee. I just think Sloth deserves to take a nap on his husband’s lap ok. And Patience is great for napping on bc he just sits still all day and seems incapable of getting uncomfortable :>
Oh btw I may be too busy to draw responses to every ask, but if anybody feels like asking questions abt these guys I’d be all too happy to write em! They’re just so fun to ramble about hhhdjdhsjhdhss
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