Lydia Schmitt

If you're a freelance writer in 2025, especially someone new to the game, you know how tough it is to get those first few clients rolling in. Clients aren't combing through bullet points about your time as a barista in 2018. They're clicking links, skimming headlines, and asking one simple question:

Before I started freelance writing full-time in 2015, I balanced freelancing with my corporate 9-to-5 job for six months. During those six months, I crammed freelance work into nearly every moment of my spare time. There’s an art to juggling a full-time job, freelance work, and the rest of your life