Ep. 12: How Day Jobs Can Help Your Freelance Work

Oct 26

Day jobs and freelance work are often seen as mutually exclusive options. But in this episode, we share how day jobs may actually be beneficial to freelance work. It may not be obvious, but when you’re starting out in a career and/or working with your spouse to create together, a day job may be exactly what you need to kickstart a creative freelance career. And sometimes your day job may show you exactly what you don’t want in a career; that’s helpful too.

As we share parts of our career journeys so far, we’ll share with you how we’ve seen various day jobs impact 3 key areas:

Financial stability
Skill-building
Opportunities through relationships or experiences

We also talk about why relationships mean more than you might think, the importance of nurturing your freelance career in its early stages, when to take a risk, and discovering transferable passions and skills in your work.

Getting to do something you love full-time is a gift, but if you take that leap too soon, it might end in burnout and a strained marriage. We propose another option that gives you stability in your career and relationships.

Our hope is by sharing different opportunities our day jobs gave us, it’ll help you in your day job or if you’re trying to make a freelance career work while also needing money. Saying “yes” to a day job doesn’t have to be a “no” to everything else.

Give yourself the freedom to make a decision, knowing that you don’t have to live with that decision forever. It may in fact be the door to your next and better opportunity.