{"id":37927,"date":"2014-06-25T21:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=37927"},"modified":"2014-06-25T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:23:28","slug":"my-experience-with-starting-a-freelance-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/06\/25\/my-experience-with-starting-a-freelance-business\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience with starting a freelance business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patternobserver.com\/2014\/06\/24\/starting-a-freelance-design-business-amy-ng\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/patternobserver-560x546.png\" alt=\"Starting a freelance business\" width=\"560\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/patternobserver-560x546.png 560w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/patternobserver-448x437.png 448w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/patternobserver.png 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a> Over on the Pattern Observer blog today, <a href=\"http:\/\/patternobserver.com\/2014\/06\/24\/starting-a-freelance-design-business-amy-ng\/\" target=\"_blank\">I talked about how I started my freelance career<\/a> \u2013 having made the jump into the unchartered territory (at least for me),\u00a07 years ago. Did you know that I also put down a mortgage for our home a month <em>before<\/em> I went solo (it was something me and Mr. T\u00a0had been planning, but\u00a0we never thought we&#8217;d find the perfect house \u2013 within our budget no less \u2013 so soon!) So if you&#8217;re ever nervous about making that leap, follow Michelle as she uncovers other freelancers who made the leap too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patternobserver.com\/2014\/06\/24\/starting-a-freelance-design-business-amy-ng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read my interview<\/a>\u00a0and also, I&#8217;ve written an article where I\u00a0share my thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/04\/15\/qa-6-tips-to-getting-that-first-freelance-illustration-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to land your first freelance job<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"My experience with starting a freelance business\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/06\/25\/my-experience-with-starting-a-freelance-business\/\" aria-label=\"More on My experience with starting a freelance business\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[92,98],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37931,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37927\/revisions\/37931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}