He said he couldn’t finish the projects I had been in charge of while on his team. Like a freshly-hatched bird, forcibly pushed from the 9-to-5 nest, and I had no clue how to fly-or rather, how to run my own business.My so-called “business” was an assortment of No’s: no website, no Facebook page, no business cards, no business name.My old boss had laid me off on a Friday. I was so new to freelancing that I couldn’t have given you a succinct definition of it.
I remember what it was like back in 2009.