2022 Q1 Update
a first quarter update as a full time freelancer
When I first quit my job almost exactly six months ago, I started swimming through resources to see what would be helpful and what wouldn’t. I ran into Sam Laura Brown’s perfectionism project, and while much of it was salesy, I found her podcast helpful at the time. I particularly like her quarterly personal growth updates, and want to emulate them for myself.
So! It’s March 27th! We are a few days away from the end of quarter one of 2022, and (technically) my second quarter as a full time freelance.
How’s it going, Caro?
Glad you asked.
As a human…
I am in a place in my life where I have stopped counting the weeks where I have not felt anxiety. This in and of itself is an enormous full stop type of statement. Especially with so many posts about anxiety and sadness like this and this and this. But, for now, I am not anxious, and haven’t been for months, and this is, by far far far, the greatest indicator that I am doing the right thing for myself.
Now, if this Right Thing is going to be sustainable and abundant and feasible and long term, well. Let’s just keep moving and see how the next quarterly updates go.
I am happy.
This is wild to me, totally wild. And it’s sitting in this place of happiness, of awe, of fulfilled, that allows me to see and value in just how different of a place I was in a year, two years, five years, ten years ago. I value everything I’ve done, the career I followed, all the incredible humans I’ve met to this point. The anxiety and struggle and uncertainty and experiments of the past decade, two, my whole life — they got me here.
Awe is really the only word for it.
As a person in capitalist society… (AKA, financially)
I am doing okay! My income so far has leveled out to be paying my bills, including 100% out of pocket therapy, contributing to my IRA, and getting health insurance from the marketplace (which, by the way, was an absolute nightmare of a process). My bottom line indicator of when I have to “go get a job” is when I decide to no longer to contribute to…
