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The struggles of balancing your freelance work life with real life concerns



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The struggles of balancing your freelance work life with real life concerns

I have seen my father when he used to come home from his office, he would bring his work along with him and continue to work until late night eventually passing out on his desk, rather than spending time with his family and friends. At some point, I felt he’s struggling to keep up with his professional life and personal life.

It's a struggle and we’re all struggling. For me, I am really having a hard time because I can’t leave my work as a freelancer or take a break. It is my identity now as I have contributed so much of hard work, it helped me build a good relationship with my buyers also have learned so much about SEO and SMM, not only in SEOclerks but various other platforms also.

On the other hand, real life concerns where you have obligations and responsibilities to be fulfilled. For an instance, to give highlight my professional career in the marketing platform I have started taking MBA classes. Last week was the first week of my MBA class, at the beginning it was okay, I felt I knew what I am getting into by talking to the lecturer after he had briefed us on the course structure but the second week is growing tough, even though few or most of the things we have already learned or had the knowledge about from our college or university, but for me it’s been years since I have graduated and I felt like I have brainwashed cause it seem new, so to recall all those old knowledge I have to start spending some time in the library.

This is the part where I am really struggling at this point of time because there is no fixed time of when a buyer will purchase my service and I have to be responsive and responsible enough to finish the order asap. I know a lot you must be thinking I can simply take my laptop with me to the library, this way I can do both, but for me, it takes a lot of time, especially if the order is based on freelance writing. I read some of your posts and you guys are so much better. Your writing style, grammar, everything is so detailed, that’s what I called perfection, but I don’t think and I know my English is not up to the level to compare with most of you guys, so I have to do a lot of revisions and corrections until the time I feel It's readable for others.

So, if start doing all these things in the library, then I am moving far away from the real objective of why I had come to the library in the first place.

How do you guys maintain the balance between your freelance work life with real life concerns?

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Cristian
I have a system. I have a very well put together time system that I follow, otherwise, it's just chaos and you won't be productive and if you are not productive you are not going to earn enough to sustain yourself.

When it comes to freelancing I work two hours per day during the week, one hour before I start my day job and one hour after my day job.
Each Saturday I work at least 4 hours and each Sunday at least 2 hours.

So my advice to your: develop your own system that works and keeps you productive and hold on of that system and schedule.



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Shortie861
I will not deny that keeping a good balance between freelance work and real life is difficult, especially if real life gets a bit hectic. I find that getting myself into some kind of routine is best and setting myself time aside to come on the PC to do freelance work and then after that time is up I will go off and spend time doing things with my family and doing what I need to do away from freelance work. I find now that I have been doing it for a while I can get into a routine that works for me and my family understands that I have a set time where I freelance and a set time where I spend time with them.



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augusta
I partition my time have my schedules and go with them.have got time for work,leisure and family and I follow this routine religiously so as to have a balanced.

life is too short to focus on only one side of life.I take all in at once.



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Moazebrahim
Well, I should focus on my life as well, I can't just focus on Freelance and leave my life and my friends and even my Family..
I should give everything its needed time, I can't focus on one thing only.



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Corzhens
Right now I'm still comfortable with my freelancing maybe because it's only part time. This is in preparation when I finally retire from my office job. At least I am getting a good training from the writing sites that I go to. And when the time comes that I will go full time in freelancing then I would know how to balance work with my time.



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coolavender
There are indeed struggles but the struggles were worse when I was still working full time in an office because I needed to spend 3 hours of the day traveling and had no control over my work schedule. Nowadays, though I have to work longer, I can choose to stop when I want or need to. Occasionally, I would encounter conflicts in schedule between offline business/work and online jobs but I've always known which ones to prioritize.

Thankfully, most of my online jobs are flexible and they can usually wait until after I'm done with my work. I have a grace period of 24 hours for every project from the content mill which I can use in case of emergencies. Right now, I'm currently more active with a relatively new site which offers a bigger pay for half the effort and time I put into writing content. This gives me even more time to do other stuff.



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