The "freedom" of freelancers is the freedom gained by learning to allocate time!

After my father left home, my mother started to become what we now see as a "freelancer". My mother takes her home as her workplace. On the small stairs, balcony, and living room, she earns what we need in life and pays off debts. She also divides her time by the way and cooks meals in the gaps of work. Or any chores at home that take a little time to deal with.

I think I should have been fascinated by these rules of allocating time, making me an extremely efficient person who can control my time in the future, whether I become an office worker or a later "freelancer".

The most commonly heard description of "freelancers" is: Okay, you have free time, you can do whatever you want without being tied up for a fixed time.

But most people don't know that, compared to office workers who work fixed hours, "freelancers" need more "efficient" work processes, so as to cope with those who need to take temporary leave during "fixed work" in life Things to do (my own business), or things that need someone to deal with suddenly at home; more importantly, you must be able to mobilize time flexibly, use all the small time, complete communication with different people, and mobilize the order of work well Make everything smooth and complete within a certain period of time.

"Time" determines the income of freelance workers compared to office workers with a fixed salary and fixed hours. You can't work eight or nine hours a day like an office worker, doing only one or two things on the same project, or spend time "waiting": waiting for the supervisor to make a decision, waiting for the colleagues to finish the part before continuing, waiting Reply from external manufacturers or cooperative units...

Most of the freelancers who accept the case have several jobs in different units waiting to be handled by themselves (one less means less income!) Most of the time "waiting for others" is used to deal with another job, and If you don’t really wait there , you need to train yourself to be sensitive to your work. You can’t spend too much time connecting between work and work, and you need to switch from work A to work B in the most efficient way. Progress, if there is a big gap in the scope of business like me, it is even more necessary to clearly know the progress of all the work and all the questions and requirements that the client will raise, and solve them in the shortest time.

A few days ago, a netizen asked me, "Wouldn't it be too expensive for you to bring a laptop and use the store outside as a mobile office?"

I still remember that in 2016, I went to Keihanshin, Japan to play by myself for more than 30 days. I really brought my laptop to work while playing. In Kansai’s Arashiyama, Mount Baei, the department store outside the Koshien baseball stadium, and the coffee shop near my home…I All of them have turned on the computer to work, and spent nearly 5,000 yuan in network fees to upload files (along with the unlimited all-you-can-eat traffic for 30 days at that time). I completely applied the time allocation of "freelance workers" to complete the "travel while working" (it is also an experiment on my trip. During those 30 days, I worked and played, and I also earned two or three 10,000 yuan, the travel expenses are all back, and the case is not interrupted because of this.)

That is the ability that has been trained for a long time. You can turn on the computer at any time and you can enter the working state (on the contrary, you can continue to play when you turn off the computer). This is a habit that is difficult for most office workers to train. In a crowded workplace, there are too many Many interpersonal relationships and social relationships require time to be separated from them to enter work, but since they are all "freelancers", they must have the reflex ability to "can enter the work state at any time".

When you can already practice the ability to "enter work at any time", and you can work wherever you go with a laptop, it is not the concept of "spending money" that "uses the store as a mobile office", but It is "because you can enter the working state at any time, so that time can be allocated more flexibly, so you have more free space in time."

After becoming a freelancer, the most free thing for me is not that I can walk around with a computer, but in the allocation of time, I have regained the dominance, and I can complete the work in any state that requires time mobilization, and complete what I want. Things to do, get things done when my family needs me and I can mobilize time to get things done.

Learning to allocate time is probably something no one will teach us at school or in the workplace, so many people use a lot of inefficient communication methods and ways of doing things to study and work. The real "freedom of time" mostly comes from strengthening themselves. The executive power and action power, use the most efficient time to complete the things that others take two or three times your time to complete.

It’s like the reason why I can play Keihanshin with my laptop and still make money is just because I’m good at using my time. In the time difference between others and me, I steal a little time and use the time I wait for other people’s reply to read, write, and travel. , take a photo...or complete the next task that only needs to be done in this gap waiting for a reply.

Make good use of all the short gaps between your life and work, don't use that five minutes to scroll your phone if you can do it in five minutes (such as returning a letter to work); do what you can do in thirty minutes. Don’t get stuck and haven’t done it for an hour (like going to exercise); get up and do something that doesn’t take ten minutes, don’t wait there for ten minutes You can think as you do, without stopping to think).

Learning to allocate time will allow you to work four hours a day as others work ten hours, and you will have six hours more freedom than others.

(You may say that if you do it faster than others, you will only do more than others. This is another thing to think about logic. I am still working in the company. It is true that I do this faster than others, and I often need to do more. What, but these extra efforts will become chips that I will hold in my hands in the future.)

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Picture: 20160614 Wakayama Takayoshi station looking at the cat, Canon EOSM3. Don't go to XD if watching cats is super boring, I should also have a computer to work here.

PS

After I post this article, I will immediately switch my head to do handicrafts, cook by hand, take a break after cooking to take a photo of the product, go out for a swim after taking the photo of the product, and go to the bookstore to finish it The handmade goods are brought in for purchase. After the goods are purchased, I go home to eat and watch TV. After watching TV, I go to skip rope to exercise. After exercising, I will go home to massage my muscles and watch a movie. . (Not busy, very fulfilling. Probably my daily routine.)