I realize this is a good problem to have, but I'm wondering if any other freelancers out there have a hard time turning down work, even when you're plenty busy already?
Just this week I was complaining (to myself -- when you work from home there's no one to complain to!) that I'm too busy and working more than I want to and need to stop accepting jobs. I had two feature articles due a week apart and one of them took longer than expected to finish so this week I've been scrambling to write the other one. I feel like I've been sitting at my computer forever. I kept telling myself that after they were both turned in I would take some time to relax.
Meanwhile, this week I got four or five offers of new jobs. Three came in within a few hours of each other, it was actually kind of funny, like the universe is conspiring against me. One I managed to turn down. The others, I justify to myself that it's not going to be that much work. Then I sit down to do it and am mad at myself for taking it on when I could be... not working. People think when you work from home you have all the leisure time in the world, but I might actually have *less* leisure time these days than I did when I was working in an office.
Just curious if anyone else ends up in this position. It's not about the money, I'm not even really thinking about that when I say yes. It's more that I hate to say no to a project that pops up out of the blue, I feel like I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth (whatever that means). Especially when it's someone I've worked for before.
Just this week I was complaining (to myself -- when you work from home there's no one to complain to!) that I'm too busy and working more than I want to and need to stop accepting jobs. I had two feature articles due a week apart and one of them took longer than expected to finish so this week I've been scrambling to write the other one. I feel like I've been sitting at my computer forever. I kept telling myself that after they were both turned in I would take some time to relax.
Meanwhile, this week I got four or five offers of new jobs. Three came in within a few hours of each other, it was actually kind of funny, like the universe is conspiring against me. One I managed to turn down. The others, I justify to myself that it's not going to be that much work. Then I sit down to do it and am mad at myself for taking it on when I could be... not working. People think when you work from home you have all the leisure time in the world, but I might actually have *less* leisure time these days than I did when I was working in an office.
Just curious if anyone else ends up in this position. It's not about the money, I'm not even really thinking about that when I say yes. It's more that I hate to say no to a project that pops up out of the blue, I feel like I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth (whatever that means). Especially when it's someone I've worked for before.
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