The Psychological Trap of Freelancing (▻https://www.thecut.com/2019...
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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
The time-is-money mind-set is hard to escape. Article word count: 989
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For most of my career, I was paid a salary. It was not very much, especially at the beginning, but it also seemed to exist on a different plane from my actual job. I worked as hard and as much as I could, and then twice a month a dollar amount materialized in my checking account. My time did not feel tethered to this money. My paycheck was just a byproduct of going into an office every day, and a pretty arbitrary one at that.
But once I started (...)