Handy tool for knowing if clients/prospects/recruiters actually read your email or not: Mailtrack Pro. It’s an easy extension you can add to Chrome for a few bucks a month .

How do you find time to take breaks throughout the day and fight the urge to work through lunch?

@McGraw Hill any idea on salary for academic design roles ?

I'm a leader in our union and am finding what you're talking abut here pretty interesting. Do you think we should talk to our unions about including home ownership in negotiations? How cld we do this?

Hi Fishes,

I have nearly 4 years of experience in Manual Testing. Is there a way I can switch to SAP technology?

Appreciate your inputs!

Also leave a like so that I can use DM features.

is it hard to get out of govt auditing into big4/top10? I started working in public few months ago (cpa in progress) in a small firm in dc (alot of govt clients) but wanna do commercial-cont.

For those who have passed the CIPM exam, what is it like (and how does it compare to the CIPP/US exam)?

How does being a manager in audit compare to being a manager in deal advisory (AAS)? Nervous to make the switch of the unknown.

Industry vs. academic research, what have your experiences in either been like and which do you prefer?

Why do people accrue prepaid expenses?

Hi,

My PF memberId starts with PYKRP, is it same for everyone?

Denver culture (and suburb areas): interested to know how easy is it to make friends here. Both husband and I are late-30s, early 40s with a kid going into middle school. I’ve got a great friend group where we live now, but looking for simpler and cheaper way of life but dreading not being able to make friends.

Best place to score moving boxes?

In the last PDM town hall, they said they were going to lower utilization targets for those that work on projects with capped hours. For those people, have you seen your utilization target lowered? I haven’t seen shit change for me.

Does anyone else struggle with being a freelancer while also being a natural leader? I always feel in freelance roles that they would prefer I just shut up (even though my ideas have been praised and implemented plenty), esp within my own dept. In a full-time role, taking charge is expected, but I'm feeling like I should just sit back and take orders vs trying to be proactive or having thoughts in a freelance role.

Are there any free invoice sending and tracking tools? I’m currently using google sheets but feel like there has to be an easier way.

Has anyone worked at WebMD before as a contractor?

Me on a date

Her: So what do you do?

Me: I’m a freelance writer

Her: (crickets)

I’ve been dabbling with the idea of getting into copywriting as something to soon the side but I have no experience doing it. What steps should I take (books to read, gigs to start with or pursue, etc) if I want to go from $0 and next to ) experience to $40k or so a year?

Right now I’m currently unemployed and taking a break from my fine art stuff to try to get back into tech sales, but I was looking to expand my skill set and also generate extra money at the same time.

I enjoy being asked for samples when I featured my website 3 times through email. In the body, my signature and my resume. I spend 100~/year on it. It has my entire portfolio... 😒😒😒

any freelance Sr, ACD or CD ads looking for a cw partner in Chicago? Would love to have a few ads if I come across FL team needs.

I may need a freelance senior (ish) AD to partner with for the month of January, in house at a start up. Post your books!

Is there a list of agencies and clients that don’t pay on time or at all? If not, can we start one here?

A former coworker wants to trade work: a logo design for her consulting co. in exchange for networking help. What’s your reaction? (We are both starting our own biz.)

Recently got a contract job at Facebook NY. I’ve mostly only been a FTE for the entirety of my career, so a bit nervous as I want to eventually be offered FT but feeling a lot of pressure to perform for the next 5 months to prove my worth. At some point it will surely get exhausting. Any tips for how to deal with this? Also curious to know what a mid-level PM normally gets paid as a freelancer?

Any account people successfully make the switch to freelance? How do you find the gigs?

Have any American Producers ever successfully been able to freelance abroad (London or Amsterdam)? Any advice?

Friendly reminder folks- don’t work for Havas Health and You. They cut the freelancers hourly rates, again and made it so there’s no OT. The resource manager at HOV said if I couldn’t swing $80 an hour as an HCP copywriter, she’d have to find someone else. Good luck 👍🏻

2021 FREELANCE RATE THREAD. Let’s share to see how 2021 budgets seem to be. I’ll start, Associate design director, $1200/day

Hello everyone,
I'm fairly new to all of this, and I'm looking to get a little experience in the industry.
Any suggestions on where to look to find some remote work?

I'm about to go freelance and need some advice on how to set my rates, how to have a proper contract, etc. How did you all get started? Be nice! Thanks

Question: what’s best practice for LinkedIn? Listing all the agencies you’ve freelanced at in your description, or having each stint in your job history?

At what point do we publicly announce a minimum day rate under which no freelancer will go? The news this week about what C-level titles are paid is sickening. This is feudalism. Surfs unite!