Journey of a Freelancer

Journey of a Freelancer
(Typed on 01/06/2011 and Edited on 18/07/2011)

Hey guys! First of all, I would like to welcome you back to reading my blog! I know it’s been a LONG LONG time since I’ve blogged and there are two reasons which compelled me to blog again. The first reason is to update you guys on my life and what I have been up to recently (before I enter the army) and the second reason is to keep track of what I have been doing with my life, monitor my progress and eventually, make sure that I have obtained (at least) some achievements, moved one step closer to success and contributed back to society (this is the exaggerated part). The second reason is well.. err, I can’t think of any but I guess it is because I want to start blogging again? Welcome myself back to blogging. *YAY*

Yah yah, I know I’m lame but it’s true ok! Did you know how much effort/mental push/internal convincing I had to do before I started typing this entry? FYI, this entry is not even typed on my blog post, I am currently typing it on Microsoft Word and planning to CTRL C – CTRL V it onto my blog and publish it. Yeah, I think you get the picture.

Anyway, enough of the ranting; something that I am great at doing whenever I blog and publish a post. Let’s get back to business. To give you an overview of what to expect from my future entries, the title of this post says it all – The Journey of a Freelancer.
As some of you might have known, I have left my office job about two weeks ago as I can NEVER stand a 9-6 Mon-Fri kinda job and can NEVER imagine myself doing something like that for the rest of my life.

I decided to do freelance sales for the company that I was working for instead. Initially, I was glad that I made that decision but after going on the ground to do outdoor sales, I can literally feel that stress and pressure coming to me from all sides.

As I do not have any basic pay now, I only get paid for every deal closed. This gives me tremendous pressure because no close case = no $$$.

I know complaining/whining/ranting in this post or blogging about it won’t solve this problem but I feel that I want to have a reference of how I am feeling now so that in the future when I am able to overcome this obstacle, I will be able to identify what was the key factor that allowed be to pull through and reach a new level.

I believe that people who are in the same situation as me now are able to relate so I just want to say that DON’T WORRY, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Feel free to contact me or leave a message, I will be more than glad to catch up with you over coffee so we can talk about our pains & sorrows dreams & visions to keep each other going.

For my future posts, I will share with you guys what are the various factors that push me to do what I am doing; factors that compelled me to hop out of the rat race and turn into a street rat, the vision and mission I have for my life and my organisation and most of all, the source where I get all my motivation from.

If you are an individual who aspires to be a freelancer, this blog is just the right place for you. I intend to frequently publish book reviews on the books that I have read and break it down into bite size, content-friendly information that can be applied into our daily activities. Also, I plan to do some reflection and application on the information that I have picked up and share my own views and opinions aloud. Hope that this does not only help my readers but also to help myself in terms of internalisation and visibility of my own thoughts and feelings at that very point in time.

“WAH, a blog with so many words and no pictures, I don’t even know what you are talking about…”

Congrats if you even manage to survive reading this whole post and have the exact sentiments as the sentence above. If you are looking for entertainment, jokes or something to read just to pass your time, I don’t think this is the blog for you (sorry, I am a very upfront and blunt person) because in the future, these would be the things I will usually blog about (yup, probably when I’m in the army too) so, if this bores you, youtube and facebook were created for a reason. :D

That’s all I’ve got! Would like to end this post with something meaningful I came across on facebook today (facebook is not all that bad ok), it is something that I would love to work towards in my life.

Enjoy and catch y’all soon! :)

Life