In 2019, I got booted off Upwork.
(More on that another time.)
Not long after, the one client I could count on to fill my calendar emailed to say they were moving most of their activity in-house.
They were ‘sorry’. But there simply wasn’t enough work to go around.
*Cue the alarm bells.*
Then came the pandemic. And with it came the budget cuts and more templated apology emails.
Just like that, my calendar began to look as empty as the toilet roll aisles. I had no income. And in my mind, no way