Murphy’s Laws apply to all aspects of life and work. Freelancing is special though, so we have our own rule set for these:

If anything can go wrong in freelancing, it will. It’s not all that bad though.

Work tends to come when you are busiest. When you are not busy at all, lots of luck to you.

Your client told you X but he really meant Y.

You told your client X, but he really heard Y.

You really hope to earn X dollars. You really earn X – Y dollars where Y is the time you spend on twitter.

As a freelancer, you are doomed to repeat history no matter how much of it you learn in advance.

Just wing it. No one will notice.

Your client is willing to pay up to 85% more than what you actually are thinking of charging him.

The amount of time you spend writing a proposal for a project is inversely proportional to the likelihood that you will actually get the project.

You will develop an addiction to coffee and/or cigarettes similar to those addicted to crack or heroin. That is, if you don’t already have one.

Vacation time is considered the time you spend NOT working (i.e. eating, sleeping).

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