I'm just about to move from being salaried at the company I work for to a freelancing arrangement which will hopefully allow me to branch out and choose what I work on. My intention is to be extremely organised, not only by being very strict with my time, but with the work itself, having set processes, building up resources, useful/ reusable code snippets etc. Even then I'm foreseeing it being difficult, I have a 3 month year old daughter which won't help!
One way I can see of lessening the chances of a burnout is to gradually involve other people, either freelancers or people like yourself that may have some time away from the day job to write a module or add some functionality to a page...for a cut of course...thanks to apps like Slack and GitHub/Lab I can't see why this shouldn't be successful but I'm yet to find out...
First of all I wish you the best for the future and I hope this will work out for you!
I think you are indeed right about being really strict, that's something anyone should be for work related things and that's especially true for freelancing I guess.
As for involving other people, I think it can be as beneficial but also quite dangerous. I'd say the main risk is to start depending on other people who won't always be there. Also you want reliable people for this kind of things, that's not always easy to find (but maybe that's my trust issues speaking haha). On the other hand, if that works it can be a really good thing and a very strong advantage for you and your reputation.
You're 110% right. Finding people you can trust to do work is difficult whether you're a freelancer, a team leader or a business owner...but if you spend time really chunking the tasks into small subtasks then you can differentiate between "high risk" / "complex" tasks that you'll take responsibility for and more straightforward tasks that you may want to delegate to someone else. I guess what I'm saying is, like with programming itself, you can come up with solutions for the problems presented by freelancing by putting processes/ safeguards in place...all the best to you too!
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I'm just about to move from being salaried at the company I work for to a freelancing arrangement which will hopefully allow me to branch out and choose what I work on. My intention is to be extremely organised, not only by being very strict with my time, but with the work itself, having set processes, building up resources, useful/ reusable code snippets etc. Even then I'm foreseeing it being difficult, I have a 3 month year old daughter which won't help!
One way I can see of lessening the chances of a burnout is to gradually involve other people, either freelancers or people like yourself that may have some time away from the day job to write a module or add some functionality to a page...for a cut of course...thanks to apps like Slack and GitHub/Lab I can't see why this shouldn't be successful but I'm yet to find out...
First of all I wish you the best for the future and I hope this will work out for you!
I think you are indeed right about being really strict, that's something anyone should be for work related things and that's especially true for freelancing I guess.
As for involving other people, I think it can be as beneficial but also quite dangerous. I'd say the main risk is to start depending on other people who won't always be there. Also you want reliable people for this kind of things, that's not always easy to find (but maybe that's my trust issues speaking haha). On the other hand, if that works it can be a really good thing and a very strong advantage for you and your reputation.
You're 110% right. Finding people you can trust to do work is difficult whether you're a freelancer, a team leader or a business owner...but if you spend time really chunking the tasks into small subtasks then you can differentiate between "high risk" / "complex" tasks that you'll take responsibility for and more straightforward tasks that you may want to delegate to someone else. I guess what I'm saying is, like with programming itself, you can come up with solutions for the problems presented by freelancing by putting processes/ safeguards in place...all the best to you too!