'Please don't misinterpret the heading to this weeks blog post.
Freelancing full-time isn't total "freedom." Freelance writing is hard work, but the "freedom" comes with the fact that you (for the most part) can make your own schedule. Consider last week, when an editor asked me to cover a special science class being held at a local university. It was a very warm day, and the college campus - like most campuses in the summer months - was devoid of cars and people except for a few. While searching for the proper building, I got lost a few times, parking my car under trees in empty parking lots, befriending their limbs and leaves in an effort to garner shade. As much as I sought that, I valued as well the walks in the sun and heat, the only noise an occasional warm breeze rustling the trees and bushes, the only movement (besides myself) were squirrels scampering along the grass and up the trees, birds flying branch to branch. As picturesque as this was, it was the peace afforded, the freedom I felt as I strolled. I was sweating, but that discomfort of that was outweighed by the fact that, if I were employed with a "job," the campus visit, the strolling, the viewing of nature, would not be possible. It, the walk on the warm day, reminded me one time of when my wife and me were first married, and we took a drive down to the then-Garden State Arts Center and walked on a very hot day Telegraph Hill Park. We spent about an hour that day in Holmdel, and loved every minute of it. It was a weekday, the area was empty except for us a nature, and it was beautiful. So was this. Steve
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Steve Sears is a New Jersey based freelance writer
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