Freelance Like a Boss: How to escape the 9–5 and take control of your life
Shea Karssing
Jun 2023 · Penguin Random House South Africa
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If you want to start freelancing but don’t know where to start, this book is here to turn YOU into a home-office hotshot, starting TODAY.
Are you feeling stuck and limited in your profession? Are you waiting for the next bonus, the next promotion, the next public holiday, the next best thing? Are you feeling burnt-out, underpaid and generally gatvol and need an alternative way to work?
What if you could become your own boss? Had the freedom to choose when and where you work? Could
work towards your own dreams instead of someone else’s? Could travel/spend time with your kids/tend to your garden at any time you damn well please? Didn’t have to take leave to go to the dentist?
In Freelance Like a Boss, Shea Karssing helps stunted in-house employees and frustrated freelancers create successful, sustainable businesses that will give them greater flexibility and earning potential. Peppered with pros and cons lists and personal anecdotes, the book presents relatable, honest and sometimes irreverent insights into the freelance world. Do you want to know how to identify marketable skills, let go of excuses, set up a business structure, negotiate contracts and other legalities, pay the correct tax, set boundaries, manage your time, establish the correct pricing structure, and much, much more? Then wait no longer – this book is for YOU!
Are you feeling stuck and limited in your profession? Are you waiting for the next bonus, the next promotion, the next public holiday, the next best thing? Are you feeling burnt-out, underpaid and generally gatvol and need an alternative way to work?
What if you could become your own boss? Had the freedom to choose when and where you work? Could
work towards your own dreams instead of someone else’s? Could travel/spend time with your kids/tend to your garden at any time you damn well please? Didn’t have to take leave to go to the dentist?
In Freelance Like a Boss, Shea Karssing helps stunted in-house employees and frustrated freelancers create successful, sustainable businesses that will give them greater flexibility and earning potential. Peppered with pros and cons lists and personal anecdotes, the book presents relatable, honest and sometimes irreverent insights into the freelance world. Do you want to know how to identify marketable skills, let go of excuses, set up a business structure, negotiate contracts and other legalities, pay the correct tax, set boundaries, manage your time, establish the correct pricing structure, and much, much more? Then wait no longer – this book is for YOU!
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About the author
Shea Karssing is a freelance writer based in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands whose boss gave her permission to write this book. After side-hustling for her entire working life, she decided to take the plunge into full-lancing six years ago and has never looked back. Shea is always learning (often the hard way) about ways to improve her services, hone her skills, and grow her freelance business.
Shea has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rhodes University, has written around 250 000 000 words in the past 10 years and doesn’t plan to slow down anytime soon. She loves waking up every day, being her own boss, and wearing activewear exclusively.
Visit her at sheakarssing.com
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