What books do other freelancers read?
This question comes up a lot, so we decided to pull together a list of both our recommendations and those of our readers.
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The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed
The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed describes a completely new, comprehensive system for earning, spending, saving, and surviving as an independent worker.
From interviews with financial experts to anecdotes from real-life freelancers, plus handy charts and graphs to help you visualize key concepts.
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid becoming hired drones working on soulless projects.
Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets For Designers
You’ll find information on key issues facing designers from freelancing to managing established design firms. A strong visual focus and to-the-point text take the fear factor out of learning about thorny business realities like staffing, marketing, bookkeeping, intellectual property, and more.
Design Professionalism
Each year enthusiastic and passionate design students enter the industry they’ve long admired—one that they’ve worked hard to prepare for and have strived to be worthy of—in time only to meet with disillusionment.
Making Ideas Happen
In an increasingly flexible and entrepreneurial environment, creative minds have the opportunity (and responsibility) to solve and change industries-but they can only do that if they overcome the obstacles. While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Scott Belsky shows why it’s better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen-a capacity that endures over time.
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
A thought provoking read from the people behind Basecamp, about re-thinking the way we do business, or even how we work. Prepare to be challenged!
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