Episode 2 Quitting Your Day Job (part 2)

January 6th 2007

In episode 2 we continue our discussion on quitting your day job and explore some things to consider if you’ve decided to take the plunge. Tune in next time for a lively discussion on dealing with conflict!

So you’ve just went full time with your freelance, now what? There are a few things to really pay attention to when you’re setting up shop, I hit on three of them in this episode.

Find out who you are
Get organized
Focus on your strengths

Below are some helpful links mentioned in this episode:

Color Scheme Generator
CSS Tux (for more inspiration head over to the links page)
Domain Name Search (find a url for your new site)
WebDevDocs (business docs for web designers)

Episode 2 [10:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

20 Responses to “Episode 2 Quitting Your Day Job (part 2)”

Hi Josh, I love the site, and I love the Podcast!
It’s a really interesting source for things to think about. I’m currently a student at the German-American John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany, but I’m already seriously thinking about what to do after school and college. As a technology freak and Tablet PC enthusiast, I would like to go beyond posting in forums and start blogging myself. I have a webspace with wordpress installed, but I can’t seem to find a nice, appealing theme. I must say I am tempted to buy a theme from fallout media, but don’t see myself in the financial situation to do so. Besides, I don’t seek to make a great deal of money on the blog, so it’s less if an investment than an expense with insecure future. Now that you mentioned on your most recent episode that you might distribute the tweakcast.com theme, I jumped with excitement. I would absolutely love to slightly modify the theme and use it myself. I am willing to post a big fat link to your company, just let me use the theme! It’s really pretty, and simple enough. So please, please let us download the theme!!!
best regards

Fabian

Fabian on January 6th, 2007 at 7:21 am

Hey Josh! I would be interested in getting a copy of your WP theme.

Great job on the podcast! One suggestion would be to possibly let your listenership know how frequent we can anticipate updates to your show. It may assist in keeping listernership up and growing! My thoughts anyway… take them for what there worth.

Also, you should think about putting some more of your advanced thoughts on freelance into an ebook… free is good, green is better!

Keep up the good work and I look forward to further episodes of TweakCast.

Rohn Gibson on January 6th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Hey Josh
Just wanted to commend you again for a great topic, I’ve been wanting to do the switch for some time now and thanks to your podcast i have realized there are a few things still left before i take the plunge…thanks again can’t wait to hear more. Wish you much luck in your business.

Leslie on January 7th, 2007 at 9:34 am

You’ve done it again. Great job and like always, very insightful information. I download you Podcast directly into my iPod and listen to it on the go.

Jorge Quinteros on January 7th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Hey Josh,

I already have taken the plunge and quit my day job, problem is, i’m not making enough right now, should I continue with my work and become better or would you say, get back to your old job untill you are earning that amount again.

Btw i’m from the Netherlands!

Klaas Koopman on January 8th, 2007 at 6:21 am

Ahhhh these tools are great. The WebDev docs were just what I needed – I’m terrible at writing all that “official” stuff.

Thanks : )

Lara on January 8th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Great podcast. I like how you keep it very short but very informative. I would be interested in knowing a little about how you do project management. Maybe tools you use or just your process of keeping track of everything.
Thanks

Tony on January 8th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

Hello Josh,

Firstly, hats off to you for this great site! A great idea and resource that will be very helpful for me and many others.

A couple of months ago I quite my web/graphic design job to try out freelancing but mainly to devote some personal time to learning programming which I’ve never had chance to. I took my first job as a graphic designer 7-8 years ago with no web experience but soon found myself pretty good at it and have concentrated most of my time on this side of things since. I have always worked within a team of designer, developers and strategists so I’ve never needed to write a line of code in my life (whether this is normal or not in many agencies I’m not fully sure?) but I have good design skills and fully understand the web and how to design for it but just not the actual coding side of things, which is now what I’m very keen to learn.

Considering I have no website, I’m doing ok, or at least making enough money to pay the bills etc, all purely from word of mouth. However If I’m to succeed, I really need my own site to reach people more effectively and further a field. I for one would be very interested in a release of this FINE blog as I’ve been searching for a nice, simple wordpress template to use while I develop my own site.

Thanks and best wishes with your site!

Leigh

Lee on January 9th, 2007 at 8:01 am

Hey Leigh, can I ask you something.

Since you don’t have a portfolio online, how do you show people what you have done before? By giving links to sites you have developed, or offline work?

Klaas Koopman on January 9th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Great podcast. But the audio level is so low.

Sean on January 10th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

Hi Klaas,

I got my first pieces of work from a couple of people I had already worked with and then from there each new client was a recommendation from the last. However, each time I have sent pdf samples of my work or links. It would be good to have my own site though to be more professional and to reach people others than those I have previously worked with.

My main goal is a site with built in blog but for now a simpler version will be ok.

Hope this helps..

Leigh on January 11th, 2007 at 3:57 am

Great site.

I have ben a self employed designer for may years now and your advice is both helpful and very welcome.

We have to stick together.

I have put a link on my Design Chat Page

Felix

Felix Clarke on January 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

When is the next ep of tweak coming out.

Hurry up!

Mr U. Rine on January 13th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

i think your first podcast was pretty good… but what did you accomplish in the second one? i didn’t learn too much. i don’t think finding a color scheme and identity is all that helpful in the beginning. i’ll be interested to hear what’s next.

Loren on January 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

Hey, i’m really enjoying your site and your podcasts. I’ve started a new site selling WordPress themes, and I was totally inspired to keep furthering my business ventures by your site and episodes. Keep the encouragement coming!

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