HeyJaredFreelance Jungle’s Newsletter
Take a mindful coffee break and explore what it is like to freelance in Australia with me. Grab short regular posts to inspire your journey & narrative non-fiction essays to plumb the depths of creativity, freelance advocacy, writer self-care, and more.
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Change your thinking, increase your chances (opens the original)
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I am surrounded by very good reasons to be unemployable. I’m a 50-year-old woman with disabilities living outside the metro area. I’m too honest for my own good, can’t walk past injustice, and believe in our power to change things. I don’t believe a big following or big bank account defines worth. I value creativity, and don’t believe in making bulk money so I can pay for sins later with chequebook and chardonnay moments.My edges refuse smoothing. It makes me a problem. That could make me cranky
What are your freelance anti-goals? (opens the original)
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Sometimes, setting goals isn’t what we need. What we need is to look at what we don’t want in our experience. I’ve talked (at length) about anti goals before for the Freelance Jungle website. But if you want a coffee break version of checking out what you don’t want in your freelance experience, this should help! What do you not want in your freelancing world?· What common tropes leave you cold (e.g., six-figure income or hustle culture)?· What kinds of clients do you have no i
Rejection is spiky learning (opens the original)
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Rejection isn’t a verdict; it’s data. Use it. – Brain Food.I realised fear of rejection was defining what I might attempt. I was over-anticipating the outcome and what people would say. I was also doing this weird thing where I was leaving things to the last minute precisely because I thought they would look that way and people would be able to tell. Then, they wouldn't judge me on the quality (hopefully) because they could see what had happened. I realised from that I was: a) Not doing what I w
An ode to prep work (opens the original)
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On the harder days, I get caught up in hating prep work. There is a resistance to putting in the effort to set things up properly. There is an immediacy to see results that I shouldn’t really be courting; it gets in the way of what I’m trying to do. The reason I do this, I think, is that I spend an awful lot of time online. We are used to that instant moment where we get gratification, feedback, and the thing up online. It doesn’t take very long, which appeals to me because I really like to spri
Micro-dose your failure tolerance (opens the original)
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I wrote in my recent Unashamedly Creative newsletter to "doing multiple things you suck at to micro-dose your failure tolerance."How I started in death literacy is an example of that. I took a Lifeline call that involved an unearthly scream at the end of the line. We're trained how to handle such events, that we can terminate the call if we're unsafe. But something about it said to hang on. After th
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