Lifestyle & Time out

Freelancing News: Freelancers urged to take Union survey

Kasey Brunt | Lifestyle & Time out, News

 

Media freelancers are being urged to take a wellbeing survey from the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

The NUJ survey aims to assess the well-being of freelance journalists based in the UK. Those who take part in the online survey will be asked questions about their work, and how their job affects their social life and [...]

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Freelancing on the move: 3 essential tools for roaming freelancers

Jim Hatley | Technology

 

Off on his travels again… tech-loving freelancer and electronic evangelist Jim Hatley grabs some essential items for work on the move (and gives us some novel uses for a digital camera). Essential items for your briefcase Continuing on from my briefcase fillers piece of last month, Id like to run through a few of the other items [...]

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Freelance Advisor Reviews: Top 5 technology applications of 2008

Emma Jones | Technology

 

Freelance Advisor and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up’ Emma Jones gives us her review of the best applications for freelancers. Top 5 technology apps of 2008 As we enter the month of December, I can’t help but look back at the year that was. The thousands of new businesses started, the people we’ve profiled, and the [...]

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Freelancing on the move: 3 essential briefcase fillers you can’t afford to be without

Jim Hatley | Technology

 

Off on his travels again… our tech-loving freelancer and electronic evangelist Jim Hatley grabs some essential items for work on the move. Essential items for your mobile office Today I am going to look at a few more items that are essential for life on the road. Working from home is fantastic, and is certainly one of [...]

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Freelance Advisor Reviews: Two great new mobile phones for freelancers on the move

Jim Hatley | Technology

 

Free-roaming freelancer and technology evangelist Jim Hatley has been out and about putting a few mobiles phones through their paces finding out which work best for freelancers and contractors who need to stay connected on the road. Time to upgrade? Two great mobile phones for freelancers Mobile phones are big business, both for those who make them [...]

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Freelance Advisor Reviews: Beautiful Bose SoundDock

Jim Hatley | Technology

 

Freelance Advisor and Gadget Guru Jim Hatley loves his home hi-fi, but when freelancing work takes him out on the road he needs a powerful portable musical system to keep his music playing at the quality and volumes to which he’s become accustomed. Today Jim looks at how the Bose SoundDock provides a good-looking, great [...]

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Freelance Advisor Reviews: Super Sony Laptop

Jim Hatley | Technology

 

Gorgeous gadget: the Sony VAIO AW11XU/Q

Life on the road can be tough. The contents of a suitcase are certainly no match for the comforts of home, but if you pick and choose your gear with a little care it doesn’t have to be all bad. We all need cutting-edge technology for the work that we [...]

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Plugging the RSS time-sink

Mark Kirby | Lifestyle & Time out

 

RSS feeds can be an easy way of saving time – subscribe to your favourite sites feeds and you’ll always know when they’ve been updated without having to check them individually. I’ll explain a great way of reading your feeds using the online Google Reader which ensures you read the most important articles whilst saving [...]

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Where’s your creative space?

Rosie Sherry | Lifestyle & Time out, Starting Out

 

Think freelance. Think freedom. Think about the 1 minute commute from your bed. Think working in your pyjamas.

Think it’s perfect?

Freelancing is often related to an improved lifestyle and work-life balance. Though the opposite often occurs. In today’s 24/7, always-connected world it’s all too easy to lock yourself away and lose track of what [...]

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A stress free way to manage all your chores

Mark Kirby | Lifestyle & Time out

 

In my last post I explained how to use the management tool Remember the Milk and how its important to write down everything you need to do. In this post I’m going to explain how you can take things further, and programme into your routine regular tasks which ensure mundane but essential stuff like cleaning [...]

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23+ ways to overcome insomnia

Michael Rose | Lifestyle & Time out

 

Us freelancers are prone to work overload! I have phases when my mind is like the inside of a very full washing machine on at full tilt. Or I have a worry that won’t go away and I fret at it like a dog with a bone. Result? Insomnia!

That maelstrom of tossing and turning, [...]

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A holiday for your stressed mind?

Darren Fell | Lifestyle & Time out

 

Stressed, clients permanently on your case and a to-do list as long as the M1? It can happen to all of us, but it’s all too easy to get to the point where you literally do not know which task to do next, as each and every one is screaming “I’m a critical important task….Do [...]

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Life / Work Balance? The new lifestyle section launches…

Darren Fell | Lifestyle & Time out

 

Ok, so you’ve got your freedom and work for yourself but are you starting to find it’s all work and no play?

Increasingly and particularly for freelancers and contractors projects often exceed initial expectations, or the drought of the early years has instilled a ‘grab it while you can’ mentality and there is simply too much [...]

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Podcast #5: Five things you always wanted to ask your accountant – part 1

Andy White | Lifestyle & Time out, Podcast

 

Part one of an interview with Steve Crouch of SRC Chartered Accountants. Steve answers questions on such things as salaries, dividends, section 660, IR35 and VAT.

Topics covered:

Limited company verses sole trader; Taking a small salary with big dividends; Section 660 – profit share between spouses; [...]

 
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