As the title of the blog suggests, I am a freelance PR working mainly in the public and voluntary sectors, on projects from small pieces of copywriting to big social marketing campaigns. In my time I’ve worked for government departments, the BBC and a range of other organisations of various sizes and degrees of dysfunctionality. Now I’m exploring the world of the micro-business, and facing a looming recession with some trepidation…
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Jane // December 19, 2008 at 10:21 am |
Hey Penny, I used to think that being a freelancer was utterly terrifying – no knowing of where the next job is coming from etc, but now I’m not so bothered. Somehow after five years of growing more disciplined and less sniffy about getting out there, promoting myself, and Getting Work, I feel better able to cope with the looming recession. Of course you can’t magic jobs out of thin air, but psychologically I feel better prepared to cope with the uncertainty than someone who has been in a ’secure’ job for a long time and suddenly loses it.
You mention you’ve worked for the Beeb. That’s a case in point. I do a lot of scriptwriting for them, but on a freelance basis. I know of people who work in-house and their whole personality is geared around ‘being a BBC Person’. Then the Beeb as they do, suddenly drop you (and often as Edward Stourton of The Today Programme found out – through someone else – they didn’t have the courtesy to tell him to his face!) and you lose your job and your identity which you’ve tacked to the BBC. Suddenly you have nothing.
Yack yack. I should be working. So much for ‘discipline’.
Jane