Hello fellow creative consultants. In an otherwise upbeat post, I have been experiencing the sometimes dreaded downtime freelancers discuss in quiet mutters as they hope for a brighter tomorrow. However, I post about the “dread” that is the downtime in hopes to offer the brighter tomorrow we tend to welcome when the time between clients seems far and in between.

What to Do?

So when the time comes, and let’s face the fact that it will come, you may wonder what to do to get by with few to zero clients. First off, it’s not an easy time, but it does offer many wonderful plusses to a slow period.

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We all have our many reasons to start the career choices we so desperately ponder about. To share mine, will offer a  small glimmer into an area consumed by growth, change, and most of all opportunity.

Welcome to Career Choice 101

If anyone came up to you today and asked you point blank why you do what you do, would you have an answer? Would you instantly know the reason why your life has managed to meandor down the paths it has to this very point? Maybe. Maybe not. But regardless of how we know how we got here, part of your answer should spread the glee of your choices like wild fire.

I look back to my moment, and really wonder why I don’t have an exact point in time of when I knew that Graphic Design and Web Design would offer me a career of a life time. Sometimes you just do stumble upon something you really enjoy and then you pursue it. For me, I pursued it like crazy. For the years I went to college I literally breathed the field.  What better opportunity to really understand what the rest of your life will be like? Consume yourself in your passion and really test that passion. Eight hours later if your eyes are bloodshot and strained, your back is sore, and you still want to keep working, you know you love what you do. It’s not about shutting off from the world, but the number one reason to do anything is the want of it. It’s the drive that keeps you doing it even if your eyes are about to fall out.

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