Comments on: Plotting Your Career When You’ve Jumped Off the Corporate Ladder

By: Do you charge enough for your freelance services? (Part 2) » Frugal Pinoy

Do you charge enough for your freelance services? (Part 2) » Frugal Pinoy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:07:51 +0000

[...] Have a career ladder. You also need to have a solid plan for your freelance career. Just because you’re not working a traditional corporate job, it doesn’t mean you don’t need to have direction. This subject is quite extensive, so I’m just going to lead you to a post I wrote about plotting your freelancing career ladder. [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive How to Get Paid Better in 2009 «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive How to Get Paid Better in 2009 « — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:00:16 +0000

[...] from time to time. Raising your rates is one of the many ways you can go a step further on your personal career ladder. But with people throwing around the words “downturn” and “layoffs”, is [...]

By: dips.aluscio.us | Repairing a Damaged Web Working Career [WebWorkerDaily]

dips.aluscio.us | Repairing a Damaged Web Working Career [WebWorkerDaily] — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:12:09 +0000

[...] Like a corporate career, web work can also be prone to seemingly irreparable damages. Whether it’s personal problems that affect the quality of your work, difficult clients who give you bad publicity, or the lack of strong business sense, you might get hurled down from your planned career ladder. [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Repairing a Damaged Web Working Career «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Repairing a Damaged Web Working Career « — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:01:00 +0000

[...] July 23rd, 2008 (9:00am) Celine Roque No Comments Like a corporate career, web work can also be prone to seemingly irreparable damages. Whether it’s personal problems that affect the quality of your work, difficult clients who give you bad publicity, or the lack of strong business sense, you might get hurled down from your planned career ladder. [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Changing Your Web Working Niche «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Changing Your Web Working Niche « — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:00:20 +0000

[...] 16th, 2008 (6:00am) Celine Roque No Comments Whether you want to take your web working career into a different direction or you simply want a refreshing distraction from your regular web work, [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects «

Web Worker Daily » Archive Why You Should Define Your Worst Projects « — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:38 +0000

[...] to look back on the mistakes of the past, especially if they’re ours. It doesn’t matter where we are in our careers right now, but there’s bound to be at least one project that makes us cringe or feel embarrassed [...]

By: Timmy

Timmy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:19:42 +0000

This is a great little article. I really struggled with this personally when I left the corporate job scene.

My biggest measure of success has been, as mentioned in the article, is customer satisfaction. In particular, helping a customer’s business grow online is a huge nod towards my career growth… really kind of becoming a partner in their business from the web perspective, and doing everything I can to make them grow.

By: DanGTD

DanGTD — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:03:27 +0000

Scott,

You can use my application http://www.gtdagenda.com for setting goals and measuring their progress, and for much more gtd stuff.

By: Marsello

Marsello — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:53:18 +0000

The real issue is the timeline in which how these goals are supposed to be accomplished, as freelance work tends to progress slower than the structured corporate America job. That is why most freelance work starts as a part time gig, some do it out of hobby.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:57:11 +0000

This is fantastic advice. When you work for yourself, it’s easy to get stuck in reactive mode, especially when business is good. If you don’t take the time to set career goals and force yourself to keep evolving, you can start to feel like a hamster on a wheel and end up feeling just as burned out as your friends in Corporate America.

By: Independent worker career climbing « Eurobrsg

Independent worker career climbing « Eurobrsg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:06:26 +0000

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By: Celine Roque

Celine Roque — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:12:03 +0000

Hi Scott, that’s a good question. Here are some ways to measure your success factors:
Client satisfaction survey via a survey programs such as SurveyMonkey. There are others out there, just search for “survey software” or “survey tools”.

As for getting public attention, you can try Googling your name once in a while, or setting a Google Alert with you or your business’ name as the search phrase to receive notifications when anyone blogs or writes about you.

For your list of goals, even a paper and pen list would suffice – just cross things out when you’ve accomplished them. Personally, I use ToDoList, but it doesn’t have a thorough reporting feature. If you’re visually inclined, you might prefer something that gives you reports in graphs, such as tedium.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:50:15 +0000

What are some ways to organize a freelancers goals and success factors? I use an Outlook folder at my day job to capture feedback and performance review stuff, but what about all of the other stuff you mentioned?

By: crowdstorm

crowdstorm — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:03:24 +0000

I’d never thought about freelancers in terms of a career ladder before. I guess one way of thinking about moving up the ladder is in terms of money?!

I think you’re right that being able to do the tasks you love on a daily basis is a good way of thinking about it. That is my aim for one day in the future!