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Questions tagged [time-management]

Questions about managing schedules, timeframes and project deadlines in freelance work.

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How do you make family understand that you need to stick to a schedule?

I'm having trouble balancing freelancing work with family. My wife thinks that just because I work at home that this means I'm available for home stuff at any hour, which creates problems in my relationship. How can I make her understand (perhaps…
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Working simultaneously for multiple clients

I am currently working for a client i like and i would like to maintain, but at the same time, being a freelancer, i would like to work for other clients in order to have a more diverse professional growth. I am a programmer and i am trying to stick…
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How do you motivate yourself when you're your own boss?

I've been working as a freelance developer for almost two years now, and I've managed to find myself in a pretty good situation. I'm working part time for a great client who loves me and has enough work to keep me busy full-time if I wanted it. Part…
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How do you divide your time between planned and unplanned/new work?

So I know the minimum amount of money I have to earn in a week (weekly salary), I know the minimum hourly rate and I know how much hours I have to work in a week. But every now and then I am asked by old or new clients to do some quick things where…
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How should I deal with the inconsistency of incoming work?

I am a freelance graphic designer (web/print/anything else you can think of). As with a lot of freelancers, I have busy periods and I have quiet periods when the incoming work slows down. Some of this is consistent and expected (some months/quarters…
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Good practices for dealing with clients in more distant timezones

I'm based in New Zealand and in previous years I was freelancing in Australia. I've done work for US clients on the west coast in (PST/PDT) and the timezone difference (it's about 4 hours difference from NZT) felt minimal and was in fact beneficial…
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How does one ask a client if he is ready to finance research time?

While I was looking for answers to a question that has already been asked here, I stumbled upon this answer. The second "golden rule" suggests: If it's something that will take more than 1 hour or so, and it's not in the domain "you should know…
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How many hours can one freelance in programming part-time and still provide a good product?

I'd like to do freelancing, but I am really bothered because I do not want to get into a mess, biting off more than I can chew. The way I see it one has about 10-20 hours a week, more like 10 if they have a family. Is that a reasonable amount of…
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