Adventures in Freelancing

Below are all the reasons I listed yesterday as to why I can not freelance full time. Underneath each reason is a rebuttal. Remember, when you debate yourself, you always win!

1. The room that I want for my office is currently our bedroom. We have to finish the addition before I can turn that room into an office. That will cost thousands, and we won’t get a loan because we are anti-debt.
Rebuttal: All the money I earn freelancing for the next three months is going toward the finishing addition. We will have to do much of the work ourselves, but we will get it done by February 2009.
2. I am the sole wage earner in my house. How will I support us and pay all the bills without a real job?
Rebuttal: By writing. And, if times get bad, I can add on a part time job or do some temp work. We don’t have that many bills and can live off very little thanks to our frugality.
3. My Hubby had a heart attack 6 years ago and needs health insurance. How will I get health insurance working for myself? He gets denied individual coverage, so we need group insurance, which is not individually underwritten.
Rebuttal: When you leave a job, you get COBRA for 18 months. After that, there is group coverage through the National Writer’s Union.
4. I am a licensed securities rep. I need to work for a Broker/Dealer to keep my licenses.
Rebuttal: The licenses stay, “good” for two years after you leave your Broker/Dealer. This give me plenty of time to try to make it on my own and, if I can’t within a year and a half then I’ve got six months to find a full time job with a B/D.
5. I don’t have a college education.
Rebuttal: I’m working on that. Also, have you seen how some college grads write? Yeah, you know what I’m talkin’ bout!
6. I’m not good enough.
Rebuttal: I am better than some and worse than others. Isn’t that the boat everyone is in?
7. No one will want me to write for them, there are better writers out there.
Rebuttal: Companies already ask me to write for them. Those that don’t accept my spec work, so, what in the world is my point?

So, I have just refuted every excuse that was holding me back. My bet is that you can do the very same. Why don’t you try?