Regardless of your opinion on Morrissey, he really nailed it with the song, "We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful." "Oh, it should have been me," he sings. "It…
Though the Bureau of Labor Statistics still doesn't really count freelancers in their monthly statistics, plenty of other brands and companies spent a lot of time and effort in 2014…
Taylor Swift's fifth studio album, 1989, has been out just a few days and is already on track to break several records, in addition to debuting at Number 1 on the…
If you've ever sat through a Monday morning meeting and thought, "I feel like my time could be better used in some other way," you're not wrong; meetings are literally a…
As I travel through the internet (as I’ve been known to do on a regular basis), I sometimes come across a career, field or company that blows my mind with…
In a Medium piece about how to be polite, writer Paul Ford says that one of the best tricks for fighting awkward conversations at parties is to wait as long…
Any freelancer who's ever posted up at a local cafe to get some work done can confirm what science has theorized, which is that the soothing hum of a bustling…
The Sunday Business section of The New York Times set the stage for a closer look at life in the gig economy with the buzzing of a 4:00 a.m. vaccum…
Life as a freelancer looks different for everyone, and it doesn't look very much like what non-freelancers think it does. No, we don't sit in our pajamas all day, and…
Despite a distinct lack of inclusion by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in their monthly figures, the numbers we do have available don't lie: More workers, both in the U.S.…