Being a freelancer has days where I exist in this miasma/void planning my week. There is a lot to do - from administrative labor to finding work - and I like to take a day each week to plan and check in (e.g. statuses of projects, RFPs, articles).

Caw staring into space surrounded by swirling thoughts and colors of blues, greens, and oranges. Floating words include: work, upskilling, sanity, networking, talks, HR, RFPs, finances, taxes, socials, and writing.

I have an article coming out in June/July-ish in Metropolitan Archivist about how to make a living as a freelancer in archives. I got the edits back this week and one of the comments was she felt empowered reading it.

Freelancing requires you put yourself and your work out there. My work week consists of posting on social media, finding and preparing RFPs (requests of proposals; big freelance projects use these), and doing client work. And you never know who might see your work and feel something from it.

This Caw doodle is from my submission to the SAA 90th Anniversary Zine. It’s a 4 pane comic titled “Behind-the-scenes: An Average Week of A Freelancer in Archives.”