This is all true too :) I generally find the stresses different from employment. Income insecurity is bad when freelancing (though that's illusory - I have to

This is all true too :) I generally find the stresses different from employment. Income insecurity is bad when freelancing (though that's illusory - I have to annoy one person to lose my job, as opposed to annoying all my clients when freelancing). But dealing with bad management decisions is infuriating and creates a sense of powerlessness and outrage that I find really stressful to deal with. For some reason, retail therapy works to defuse some of this stress, whereas buying things only increases my freelancing income insecurity.