The problem with working by yourself, for yourself, all alone with yourself—and in a job that amounts to siphoning off measured and calibrated doses of your most inner being and most complicated feelings and distilling them to make delicious cocktails for people—is that you can start to get a little weird up in there. It is so profoundly easy for creative freelancers to develop weird, self-destructive habits that it’s kind of a running joke among us how bad we all are at self-care*.
Breaking Bad... habits.
Breaking Bad... habits.
Breaking Bad... habits.
The problem with working by yourself, for yourself, all alone with yourself—and in a job that amounts to siphoning off measured and calibrated doses of your most inner being and most complicated feelings and distilling them to make delicious cocktails for people—is that you can start to get a little weird up in there. It is so profoundly easy for creative freelancers to develop weird, self-destructive habits that it’s kind of a running joke among us how bad we all are at self-care*.