Okay now I’m once again in sort of a NEET position. To be exact I am kind of self-employed. Freelancing is something cool that most people would hope to do – in many sense it is like making a living through doing what you like and accepting work only when you like them. In practice, freelancers often accept work because they need the money though I’m not in the situation yet. And besides that, another bad thing about Freelancing is that unless you’re very disciplined, you’ll almost inevitably procrastinate until the very last minute before submitting your work. And unless you’re really desperate, you don’t push too hard for your payments so they get delayed frequently.
Yet freelancing is admirable for the insecurity, the need for a balance of self-promotion, humility and service to others. To be able to work in the comfort of your home is not easy and it takes lots of discipline and a sense of routine if you do have lots of work to juggle. For me, I reinforce this discipline by sleeping at fixed timings and try to have my meals within certain time range as well. When you’re doing graphics design, writing, web development and possibly even a little bit of consulting sort of freelancing, it is always easy to end up chatting on the computer, visiting game sites and getting a little too hooked to Facebook games. To enforce this computer discipline, Mac users have this software called WriteRoom. I have it installed but hardly use it partly because I’ve been regulating my gaming pretty well enough not to affect my work.
I’m definitely enjoying my freedom.
