It’s always good to be busy,\u00a0and having had a week or so off after finishing my latest campaign work for Soccer Aid for Unicef 2022, I feel\u00a0refreshed enough to start looking for that next project.<\/p>\n
I feel as a freelancer that I must always be working, and a tiny bubble of guilt\u00a0can sometimes pop into my head if I have allowed myself a long weekend away from my computer. That said, I have totally lovely, wonderful clients who understand that I need some holiday time (and\/or am juggling other clients) and so cannot always meet their needs immediately. The daft thing is that it’s actually my own guilt I feel during those digital detox days and I have managed to find some truly understanding people to work with that understand this, and to them I am forever grateful.<\/p>\n
I was discussing this very subject the other day with one such client. One definite benefit that I find as a freelancer is the variety of people I get to work with. It stimulates me, it engages me and it allows me to enjoy the work that I do.\u00a0My clients make my job. The work is always roughly the same as my skills are transferrable across a whole range of industries, but it is the people who I enjoy chatting with and working with to get a job across the line.<\/p>\n
Although I am currently enjoying some down time, and it has been a pretty intense 6 months, I am by no means complaining.\u00a0I have the inevitable messages that are asking my availability when\u00a0I have plans already in place\u00a0and I\u00a0start to think to myself “err, can I fit this in around my train journey and festival attendance if I’m willing to stash my laptop somewhere and go back for it later?!” but truly, in my heart I know that I need the down time so I can fully function, engage brain and power through on the up times.<\/p>\n
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Phew!\u00a0It’s been another busy few months (make that first half of the year!) and I’m finally finding time to have a bit of a breather. It’s always good to be busy,\u00a0and having had a week or so off after finishing my latest campaign work for Soccer Aid for Unicef 2022, I feel\u00a0refreshed enough to start looking for that next project. I feel as a freelancer that I must always be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,39,73,6,189,188,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offthewallcreative.co.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}