Part One: Freelancing

Freelancing is a great deal…when you’re getting regular work. For starters you tend to get paid extremely well, you make A LOT of contacts in the industry and you have a lot of freedom to pick and choose the jobs you want to do.  But there is a negative side to it too. So after a year that’s left a lot of people aching for some form of job security, I could be considered crazy for turning down a permanent position complete with vacation and health benefits.

But that is exactly what I did last week. I took a gamble; trading in the chance to get a consistent wage, a set of people I would work with day in and day out, job security, the chance to grow with the job in favor of a shaky recovery, unstable finances and not knowing what I would be working on next, nor when nor who with.

Somehow though it seemed a lot more of a gamble to take a permanent job – it would be coordinating crews and shoots for an international company in case you were wondering – than it would to continue to navigate my way through the muddy waters of networking, interviews and uncertainty but where I would be my own boss and the opportunity for that elusive perfect job that we all get from time to time can forever be the carrot just around the corner that keeps me on this wild journey.

Because amazing jobs do come along and one of the very best parts about being freelance is that despite all the setbacks, disappointments and hustling you have to do, every time the phone rings or an email lands in your in box, it just may be offering the experience of a lifetime.