One Year Ago, I Decided to Quit My Job to Become a Freelancer.

Today, I Am One Week Into My First Workation on a Portuguese Island.

Picture by author.

A lot happened since I quit my company job to become a Freelancer. One of the big milestones being on my first ever Workation on a lovely island in the North Atlantic.

If you want to know a bit about my story, how my life as a freelancer is going and what I’d like everyone to consider who is thinking about becoming their own boss, too: Keep reading.

How it all started

I had a good job, and quitting was a tough decision.
Especially because I didn’t have anything SOLID lined up for the after. Not a “better” job, not a higher salary, not even a concrete game plan. And I am pretty much of a planner…

All I had was the feeling that I needed to change something, that I wanted more, and that I got no good excuses left not to take the leap — and try this thing that had somehow crawled into the back of my head.

So I did it.

I quit my job — with nothing more than the idea of becoming a freelancer, doing what I did for 8+ years under the umbrella of another agency or company, but on my own.