I was freelancing things a couple of years into my career. The trick isn't skill at the job (so long as you don't get in over your head), it's getting the gigs

I was freelancing things a couple of years into my career. The trick isn't skill at the job (so long as you don't get in over your head), it's getting the gigs in the first place. Honestly, I really wish I'd stuck with it and pushed harder down that road, rather than settling into corporate work. Among other things, I saved Christmas! (Way back in the dawn of the web, a little printing company in Iowa managed to get the christmas.com domain, and were printing letters to Santa for kids. They were getting creamed performance-wise. I helped get it runnable.)