Pharma freelancers: be honest, what do you love and hate about it, and what do you make in a year?

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Balking at these numbers… is this real life?? Trying super hard not to feel resentful as the journalism kid who went in the client services direction only to end up having to write copy for so, so many projects over the years but can’t now take the credit to support a role shift 😔

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Thanks so much for the encouragement, truly. It just seems incredibly daunting to make this (or any other) type of career shift at this point. Especially after fighting tooth and nail just to rightfully and finally be where I am. My head knows it’s possible, if I choose to take on yet another fight, but my heart and the rest of me are too tired to even consider the possibility.

I’ve also been in this long enough to have heard (and seen, and helped craft, and mostly admired) a million mentions of “the book” and “building it up” and designing ~all~ the beautiful things to showcase and sell your talent. I just don’t have this type of work experience -officially- or the samples to even take my best shot at what would realistically be me scrapbooking something together. Wouldn’t even know where to start!

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Freedom from a lot of the politics. Probably make around $300k this year.
What do I hate? Um...advertising?

Mostly HCP/managed markets with some patient

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