>> You have to be willing to struggle a lot.
You have to constantly be fighting and wanting to do it.
It's not the kind of thing you can fall into or say, "I got laid off.
Maybe I'll try it."
Freelancing is literally -- you're constantly trying to find avenues to get yourself
and your work out there and you have to wear a lot of hats.
Not only -- like as an artist, you have to have the skills and constantly keep
up with the programs and in the industry and knowing what people are doing,
but also being a lot of a businessperson in the sense of being, having great customer service,
like always replying to emails on time, within hours if you can.
My sister is an art director at a magazine, and she tells me stories where people lose jobs
because she emailed three people and one person got back to her in five minutes and she felt
like they were reliable and just got the job.
So a lot of times it's literally being connected to your phone 24/7
and always willing to take the call.
And if you're not willing to kind of do that and go the extra mile for your clients,
you're going to find yourself kind of sinking very fast.
And so it's just the ability to wear a lot of different hats and kind
of juggle all those at the same time.