12 things freelancing taught me in 12 months

If someone tell you, a year is enough to change your life, they said it RIGHT.

Nidhi Kala
5 min readDec 5, 2021

The word free in 'freelancing' sounds scary to many.

No, it doesn’t mean you have to work for free.

But it does mean you have liberty to work from anywhere, anytime.

It’s your TIME.

It’s your FREEDOM.

Freedom
Image: Author enjoying her freedom

November 2020 was the beginning of my journey as a full-time writer.

I received an inmail on LinkedIn enquiring for five-frigging-hundred product descriptions.

It was huge.

Yet, I charged peanuts.

But those peanuts were an eye-opener for me in starting my journey.

From November 2020 to November 2021, freelancing has given me the financial glamour and failure both.

Here are my 12 learnings that neither people nor school could teach me.

12. Never take rejections personally

I have been rejected multiple times by clients.

Some of the clients I enjoyed working with didn’t extend the contract. One of the clients I wanted to work with rejected me after the paid test was…

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Nidhi Kala

b2b saas writer | i ghostwrite LinkedIn content for service-based biz & b2b founders | 64K+ @LinkedIn