Learned Fortran on an old TI-99; forgot Fortran; learned to draw, paint, sculpt, and play violin; learned how to merge code and art, turned it into my UX/Front-end dev Frankenthing.
'Do not allow clients to contact you by text/phone, unless it's a real emergency. Set working hours and serious boundaries.'
Absolutely. The one client I was able to get as a freelancer I tried to fire because he couldn't handle boundries. He'd follow me around at my regular day job for hours at a time (management was split between thinking it was cute and wanting to fire me for 'keeping a distraction' at work). I'd also come home after work to find that my mother-in-law, who has cognitive problems, thought he was my friend and let him in, telling him to wait for me in my bedroom.
Boundries are incedibly important, and I recommend against freelancing unless your area takes harassment and stalking seriously.
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'Do not allow clients to contact you by text/phone, unless it's a real emergency. Set working hours and serious boundaries.'
Absolutely. The one client I was able to get as a freelancer I tried to fire because he couldn't handle boundries. He'd follow me around at my regular day job for hours at a time (management was split between thinking it was cute and wanting to fire me for 'keeping a distraction' at work). I'd also come home after work to find that my mother-in-law, who has cognitive problems, thought he was my friend and let him in, telling him to wait for me in my bedroom.
Boundries are incedibly important, and I recommend against freelancing unless your area takes harassment and stalking seriously.