The Placement Diaries
This is a reflective and thoughtful process on the realities of self employment and freelancing during my University placement year.
PLEASE NOTE: The opinions and ways of thinking that I expressed in these entries when I was 20 years old may no longer fully reflect my current views and ways of thinking.
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Weeks
- Week 39: The End - 9th June 2022
- Week 38: Neither Here Nor There - 3rd June 2022
- Week 37: Notes on the Metaverse - 27th May 2022
- Week 36: Void Year - 20th May 2022
- Week 35: Genre Defying Music, Editorial Illustrations, and Creating the Final Drafts - 13th May 2022
- Week 34: Being in Person - 6th May 2022
- Week 33: Apartment Tours, Thinking About What Could Have Been, and Making a Start on the Written Reflective Report - 29th April 2022
- Week 32: What If I…? - 22nd April 2022
- Week 31: Looking for Things, Plain Text Files, and Writing for a Friend - 15th April 2022
- Week 30: Personal Branding, Voice Notes, and Still Having Doubts About Going Freelance - 8th April 2022
- Week 29: Having a Niggling Feeling About Becoming a Freelancer - 1st April 2022
- Week 28: Pitching Again, Advertising Commissions, and Deciding to Come Up With a Social Media Strategy - 25th March 2022
- Week 27: Rewriting the Business Plan, and Attending a Social Media Workshop - 18th March 2022
- Week 26: Spring, Continuing on Doing the Work, and Making a Start on Creating a Professional Website - 11th March 2022
- Week 25: Doing the Work - 4th March 2022
- Week 24: Setting Up Freelance Profiles, Finally Having the Right Tools, and Getting My First Potential Client - 25th February 2022
- Week 23: On Being Single, Refusing to Be a Content Creator, and Going Old School Through No Choice of My Own - 18th February 2022
- Week 22: Becoming a Freelancer, Finally Filling Out the Grant, and Getting More Positive Visions - 11th February 2022
- Week 21: No More NFTs, Getting Really Noticed on LinkedIn, and Thinking About Becoming a Writer - 4th February 2022
- Week 20: Getting Back on Instagram, Vision Boards, and The Labyrinth of the Mind - 28th January 2022
- Week 19: Redirecting (again), Making a Start on Creating NFTs, and Exploring My Options - 21st January 2022
- Week 18: Getting Back Into It, Slowly Unlearning Hustle Culture, and Making a Start on Contributing to Open Source Software - 14th January 2022
- Week 17: Having an Anti Capitalist Mindset - 7th January 2022
- Week 16: A Year in Review - 31st December 2021
- Week 15: A Fairly Complex Puzzle, Going to the Theatre, and AI Generated Christmas Films - 24th December 2021
- Week 14: The End of Term - 17th December 2021
- Week 13: Waiting for a Break, and Getting the Business Plan Done - 10th December 2021
- Week 12: Cold 2 Electric Spookaloo, an Unattended Social Event, and Doing Lots of Research - 3rd December 2021
- Week 11: Going Back to the Original Idea - 26th November 2021
- Week 10: A Quiet Week and More Market Research - 19th November 2021
- Week 9: Business Bootcamp - 12th November 2021
- Week 8: A Room of One’s Own, Thinking About How Much I Should Spend in Order to Start the Business, and Still Being in a Dilemma - 5th November 2021
- Week 7: Half Term - 29th October 2021
- Week 6: Having Two Business Ideas, a Dilemma, and Half a Pitch - 22nd October 2021
- Week 5: Going With The Flow, Using LinkedIn, Attending the First Workshop, and Actually Putting Together a Business Plan - 15th October 2022
- Week 4: Overthinking, Redirecting, and Still Being at Square One - 8th October 2022
- Week 3: Being on the Verge of Death, Hallucinating, and Finally Making a Start on Things - 1st October 2021
- Week 2: Market Research and Analysis Paralysis - 24th September 2021
- Week 1: Welcome Week - 17th September 2021