Anatomy of a Side Project
It is inevitable when you freelance – eventually, you look at all that stuff you’re working on day in and day out and wonder, “why can’t I do that?” The question itself is not flawed, but the actual work that goes into finding out if you can in fact do those things is almost never as minimal as you expect.Â
Recently, I decided to take a stab at working on a few side projects in my increasingly limited spare time to take advantage of what I saw as ripe markets and try to hit up a few possible bonus opportunities. The results have yet to truly make themselves known but I have noticed that I am working a heck of a lot more and getting just a hair less sleep in the process.Â
I suppose the title of this post is a bit misleading as I’m not going to lay out the outline of starting on a side project or anything like that – rather I’m just going to say: it’s fun to try, but don’t over do it. Burn yourself out on work you don’t get paid for and it’s that much harder to do the real stuff.
