2013

So, 2013 was my first year freelancing full time. I thought it’d be nice for me to just quickly jot some ‘statistics’ down from what’s happened since January 7th 2013.

Here goes...

This last year I’ve worked on 40 different projects. Ranging from some quick content updating of an HTML email, in both English and Welsh, to creating templates and WordPress sites.

With these 40 projects I’ve worked for 25 different clients. I think that’s quite a high number but it’s good to see that I’m retaining some regular clients for work now too. The start of 2014 sees me working one three projects for returning clients so hopefully it’s an upwards trend.

Unfortunately I’ve had two non-paying clients this year. Both were for reasonably small amounts (in my opinion) and have led me to tighten up my contract and ‘go with my gut’ rather than take any job going because I’d needed the money.

I’ve also had a stretch of 17 consecutive working days without any client work. It was at the start of the year and I noticed that I wasn’t ‘looking for the next gig’ as early as I’d needed to be and waiting until I’d finished one job before looking for another. This has been rectified and since July I think I’ve only had 2 consecutive days without work.

The shortest project took an hour to do. The longest lasted 13 working days.

I attended 9 conferences this year, 3 of which were online. I also attended 2 workshops and 4 evening events. I decided at the start of the year I was going to spend the first year going to as many as I could afford to and then reign myself in for 2014 and onwards. Looking at 2014 already, I don’t think that’s going to happen.

There’s probably some stuff I’ve missed. There’s a chance I’ll edit this post as I think upon it and add things.

Finally, come on 2014. Let’s be havin’ ya.