Nobody tells you about what the first 12 months of building a portfolio career are really like.
They tell you about the leap, the courage, and all that glorious freedom. There will be a sunrise laptop photo with a caption about finally doing it on your own terms…I may have been guilty of this one, sorry about that.
They don’t tell you about the Tuesday afternoon when your calendar is empty, your inbox has three emails in it, and you’re standing in your kitchen on your third cottage cheese bagel (gotta get the protein in), wondering if you’ve made a catastrophic mistake.