I consulted to pay the bills. It worked for me. I think the three toughest things with the contracting approach are: 1. Being disciplined and actually working

I consulted to pay the bills. It worked for me. I think the three toughest things with the contracting approach are: 1. Being disciplined and actually working on your business. I don't have a great answer for this one. Just knuckle down. 2. It often takes a fair amount of time to generate consulting business. This is time that you aren't making money. 3. When consulting gets busy you eat into the time you have for your project and stop making progress and loose momentum. What I did to deal with items 2 and 3 was get a long term, part time contract (3 days a week). I then had two full days a week to work on my business and rarely struggled with burn out or time conflicts. I think this approach is a lot easier than straight up freelancing.