Creative Advent 2008: Alen Grakalic

Best career advice I received was actually several months long process of talking me into quitting my day job to become a freelancer. At that point in my professional life I was so insecure about taking the step into going solo that and I hesitated for a long time, almost 2 years. Then I started to talk about it with a friend of mine, who was already freelancing and was doing great. He was trying to convince me that I should make that decision and quit my 9 to 5. At the end I did

How freelancing affected my life

Looking at it now, I couldn’t have things any other way. I didn’t regret it, not even once, although there are times when I would like to take a break from it. Sometimes things like late payments, unreasonable clients and paper work get to you. As they say, everything has its pro’s and con’s, but I feel that freelancing, for a person who is freelancer in the heart, is the best way.

Guest Author Bio

Alen Grakalic is a web standards designer and developer living in Rijeka, Croatia. He owns and runs Css Globe, web standards community site where he writes about web standards related topics. Recently he launched a CSS template shop. As an amateur endurance athlete and one-time Ironman finisher he enjoys taking a break from web work with long distance running or cycling.