Signs and Symptoms of a Hardcore Freelancer

Freelancing can be addictive. You get a natural high from knowing you have control over your own time, your own resources, the people you work with and most especially your rates.

Are you a hardcore freelancer? Would you like to know whether you’re addicted to freelancing? Here are the common signs shared by many freelancers all over the world.

• Any place with a wifi hotspot is your “office”.
• Your idea of fun is winning a contract over hundreds of other providers.
• Your idea of a very important meeting is a Skype conference.
• You consider pajamas proper workplace attire, and change to a clean top only when you have “an important meeting”.
• You can tell which time zone belongs in which country – without consulting the tables.
• You actually look forward to those quick trips to the grocery store.
• You forget that that quick trip to the grocery store can take hours because of traffic.
• You dream about work.
• You talk to your cat about work.
• You argue with yourself about work – and are never quite sure who’s winning.
• Your friends hate you because you already know what’s in the news even before it’s aired on TV.
• Your friends hate you even more when you invite them out to a movie. You do realize that, unlike some people, they have jobs!
• Exercise is when you have to walk the dog.
  

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• A break from work is when you have to get up and get more coffee.
• You can’t get enough of coffee.
• You think working 12 hours a day is normal.
• Work starts at 10:00 am and ends at 1:00 am the next day. Lunch is at 2:00 pm and dinner is at 10:00 pm.
• With the way your schedule is arranged, you feel like one week is actually less than 7 days.
• Although you may be aware which date of the month it is, you constantly forget what day of the week it is.
• The only holiday significant for you is a bank holiday. I mean, what’s the point? You’re at home all the time anyway.
• Since you’re home all the time, your neighbors don’t believe you’re really busy.
• Since you’re home all the time, your parents don’t believe you even have a job.
• The last time you went out of the house was when that apartment complex right across the street was still a vacant lot.
• Your hobby? Working five more minutes… an hour after the last time you said you’ll work five more minutes.
• You have a hard time finding your desk under all that paper.
• You wonder why you need to visit a doctor when you can always Google for answers.
• Facebook is your “social life”.
• You get the chills when you step out the door. What if you get lost, and can’t find your way back home?

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