Life, freelancing & advice from
Ryan Gibson

With freelancing comes choice. A choice to decide what time of the day you work, where you work, and how you work. There is also the more important issue of ‘who you work with’.  I’ve already written about turning down a potential client but I haven’t yet touched upon turning down clients on ethical & professional integrity grounds.

Throughout my time in full time employment I turned down the opportunity to work with a number of companies across multiple industries & sectors because ethically it just didn’t sit right with me.

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Whether it’s in your home life, social life or work life; the strive for perfection is usually a steep climb without a peak. A tunnel without any light at the end.

Many battle with the notion that it’s not worth doing unless it’s the ‘best’. Our consumption of social media and the perfect ideology means we constantly self critique and analyse our own accomplishments. Never satisfied we seek something which perhaps is not attainable.

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Anybody making the transition to self employment has most probably toyed with the decision whether to use their own name or a business name.

I briefly once operated under a business name however the best decision I made was operating under my own name. This goes against all conventional wisdom and ‘guru’ advice. Ultimately there’s no right or wrong answer.

When making the decision I initially sat down and ‘defined’ my goals as a freelancer and self employment in general. Freelancing is approximately 40% of my working week alongside my other business interests so I wanted a solution which worked across both avenues. You may want to do the same.

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If I had a pound for every remote working article I have read this week then I would be a rich man. Remote working & working from home articles are a plenty. Drop into Medium and as you flick through you may manage to read three in one session (I don’t get this sentence?)

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