Sometimes I regret making choices that have kept me poorer and less "successful" than others around me.
Sometimes I regret making choices that have allowed my standard of living to rise and become a trap.
I freelanced for the first 6 years of my career. I worked "half-time." I panicked every time I was "between" jobs, but the jobs came frequently enough to survive and I chose to spent the rest of the time with my new family rather than looking for more work. We also made the choice that my wife would stay a full time mother, so we remained single income.
Should I have chosen differently?
Sometimes I sit. Sometimes I stand. Sometimes I do Yoga. Sometimes I work too hard. Sometimes I don't.
Cheers,
tod
On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:14 PM, electropura212 wrote:
> Cost me about 10 grand to be there the first month of my daughters life
> earlier this year. All in all, I think I made the right decision.
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> On Sunday, September 30, 2012, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
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>> **
>>
>>
>> Indeed, freelancing makes me crazy. I don't think back when I got into TV
>> decades ago I envisioned being a graying, middle-aged person without a real
>> job. And you put it well - "out of work for the rest of your life." I have
>> no real guarantee that anyone will call me again, ever, and each time the
>> work stops I wonder if I'm off the edge for good this time. But I guess
>> nowadays no one has any guarantees. Places go out of business or contract,
>> and staff folks lose their jobs all the time.
>>
>> I've given up committing to vacations of any length. A few years ago I
>> honored a promise to family member to attend a camping trip birthday
>> celebration in Tahoe. I was just tired of putting the people I love second
>> all the time. As a result, I lost a bunch of work, and it ended up costing
>> me $10,000 to sleep on the Sierra dirt for four days; that was the end of
>> that particular social experiment. Clearly, the people I love must be
>> placed second. But it's been worse for others I know. One fellow's mother
>> was very sick, but he felt compelled to accept a big and lucrative gig. It
>> had been a bad year, and he really needed the dough. He had a plane ticket
>> to fly back east and see her, but she died before he could get to her.
>>
>> Happy Sunday.
>>
>> David, (the writer of the original post) are you now considering a career
>> in plumbing instead?
>>
>> Shirley
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'tcurren%40aol.com');>>
>> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>>
>> Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 6:47 am
>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor Wellness Tips
>>
>> It's funny how many staff editors idolize the freelance life. But unless
>> you
>> have the right make-up for it, it's not a lot of fun. Staff editors think
>> it
>> must be great because you get those cool "breaks" between gigs. In
>> reality, each
>> time you finish a gig, you are out of work for the rest of your life. So
>> there
>> is a small panic that can set in and then the mad scramble to find more
>> work.
>> It's not a vacation.
>>
>> And speaking of vacations∑ want to guarantee some really good work will
>> come
>> along? Plan a vacation, pay for the whole thing, and then that cherry gig
>> will
>> certainly coma along for that exact time period. It's almost like
>> clockwork. :-/
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, "john@..." <john@...> wrote:
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>>> I'm a freelancer, so a vacation is out of the equation. My last was my
>> honeymoon in '99... When I was a staff editor. Dodo mention that I'm
>> typing
>> this on my iPhone as I head to the city for a fun filled Sunday of editing?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 30, 2012, at 2:13 AM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <<John, exactly. I feel the same way. I don't know how those other
>> editors
>> do it, the ones that go to Sicily, Switzerland, Africa, South America, and
>> places like that. But they do exist, those vacation-taking editors.>>
>>>>
>>>> They either have staff jobs (in very short supply) or they don't care
>> about
>> work and figure they can always pick up again when they come back (no
>> mortgage
>> or kids)
>>>>
>>>>
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