I vacate my full-time job to freelance. I travel, work in coffee shops, wake up whenever I want. The freedom is a dream for about seven months. That’s when baristas start learning my name. With every new Starbucks I enter, I can feel the tile beneath my feet unearth. My ...more +
6 years ago
Working for yourself can be irresistibly alluring. Many unsuspecting creative professionals are drawn to the promise of freelance freedom. Freedom to set your own schedule, to wear pajamas all day, to pick and choose your clients and your work. There is little doubt that self-employment and freelancing offer quite a ...more +
6 years ago
There are worse things in the world than imperfect writing, though apparently, Haley wasn’t supposed to think so. After all, she was a copywriter – one of the appointed guardians of grammar, a warrior on the front lines of syntactic propriety. Of all people, she should be appalled by confounding ...more +
6 years ago
If you want to send a coworker (or anyone in your life, really) into an early grave, squint your eyes, move your head forward just a bit, and purse your lips to form everyone’s least favorite phrase: “Can I give you some constructive feedback?” I have yet to meet one ...more +
6 years ago
January’s RuNT event, Bring Your Baggage, was unlike any other we’ve put on – in the best possible way. While our talks are usually focused on the creative side of things, this time we did things a bit differently. We teamed up with Sarah Kay, a Nike employee and life ...more +
6 years ago
Working for yourself can be irresistibly alluring. Many unsuspecting creative professionals are drawn to the promise of freelance freedom. Freedom to set your own schedule, to wear pajamas all day, to pick and choose your clients and your work. There is little doubt that self-employment and freelancing offer quite a ...more +
6 years ago
When I was 21 years old, I was a year out from graduating college with what turned out to be a really useless degree — English, with an emphasis in creative writing. I wasn’t a 21-year-old who had the world by the horns. I didn’t have cool internships lined up. ...more +
6 years ago
Whenever I vow to “try hard” at work, I end up over-communicating. I reply to every request. I take on way too many projects. I cut people off and short-circuit in conversation. I appear to be very, very busy, but in a way that actually ends up being... unproductive. Drawn ...more +
6 years ago
