How to plan paid time off as a freelancer
Nobody pays a freelancer to be away, so pay yourself: count the days off, price them into your day rate, save a share of each payment and book the weeks early.
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Freelancing
Going freelance and staying freelance: the decisions, structures and habits of working for yourself, for creatives leaving a job or years into it.
Working for yourself is a handful of decisions made early and remade every year: what to sell, what to trade under, how many hours the work gets. Without an employer, vacation, sick days and insurance stop being benefits and become costs the studio budgets for, like software or rent.
In this section
- Deciding to go freelance
- Side project to full time
- Choosing your services and niche
- Business structures (sole proprietor, LLC)
- Insurance for freelancers
- Working alone: boundaries, hours, loneliness and coworking
- Time off, vacations and sick days
- Capacity and burnout
- Collaborators and subcontractors instead of staff
- Productized services
- Freelancing by discipline: design, illustration, photography, copywriting, video
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