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Your home base in the big world of freelancing! End employer dependence. All skillsets #BFTips #BlackBurnout #BFAcademy #blackcontentmarketing #KnowYourNiche
Dec 31, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
It’s their jobs.

I’m not even kidding.

Anywhere from 50 to 85% of the country dislikes and even *hates* what they spend the majority of their working hours doing. The only solution to that is constant distraction. Sure, holding businesses/employers accountable would be an option, but the country’s too drunk on the concept of the individual, too scared to hold employers accountable, and too invested in the status of labor endorsed by an organization to even start down that path.
Dec 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Control of our labor (and distance management from employment relationships) is only going to get more critical in these coming years… I do believe that withholding our labor is incredibly powerful right now…I also believe that employers have left most Americans in a position where that choice requires sacrifices they aren’t willing to make, regardless of the long-term implications
Sep 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I really think people give this advice in romantic contexts for the same reason they do in employed (network/get a degree)

They don’t want to grapple with how little control we have in reaching our goals…or how infrequently things are working out for those who have “arrived” Or it’s a tacit acknowledgment that it’s all you’ve really got, so put your energy there. Is it lazy? Maybe, but I also think people know what’s up.
Sep 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This doesn’t get addressed enough in the freelance/location-indie “live where you want”/“work from a beach in Thailand” conversations.

Freelancers can be gentrifiers too. I want to see Black freelancers take advantage of location-independence and lifestyle design…but to maintain and enhance connection with/contribution to communities and find safety…not adopt predatory behavior. #BFTips
Jul 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Because practically everybody is actively supporting the facade of the base decency of employment.

They only start to get honest once they know you’ve experienced a crack...and even then they won’t tell you the whole truth because they need the lies themselves. “Your job isn’t who you are” is a partial truth to keep you invested in the system.

The whole truth starts when we talk about how a job will change, consume, and even destroy who you are and who you want to be...but that’s painful for anyone to admit.
Jun 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
LOVE this mention of using freelance writing to fund a "Grownup Gap Year" from @vaycarious—"I actually wish I'd started earlier." buff.ly/31xjNfl

I just did my first work-travel stint in Japan and it was amazing how much I was able to do just working a few hrs each morn That trip taught me a lot. I was getting $500-$700 of work done/day before 9AM (with a little boost from jet lag) but that basically left me with a full day to hang out/explore.

It *really* clarified my high-earning/low-effort services and what slows me down at home.