Living My New Life

So here's me with my new freelancer life:

• I get up when I feel like it. It's results over punctuality, usually.
• My clients have crazy hours, so I often keep crazy hours too. It's all good.
• I no longer have stupid managers managing me. If I don't like a client and I think they're making stupid decisions or arguing with me too much, I dump them.
• There are days when I literally get paid a great sum of cash from guys younger than 25, even someone as young as 19.
• There are wealthy clients I have who stop playing video games long enough to answer my question on a project, then go back to playing the games, all while their affiliate marketing projects make cash in the background. Talk about an inspiration. Talk about a fun guy to speak with.
  
• I can grade the homework of my children in a 30 minute break from work.
• I don't have to listen to annoying laughter or jokes all day.
• I get an office with a door and a window, any temperature I prefer, any music or lack thereof that I prefer, and I can change the scenery completely by working wirelessly from the beach or while on vacation if I want.
• I can save cash by making my own lunches, and not without embarrassment compared to other people's lunches.
• I don't have a boss lording over me or babysitting me.
• Although not often, some days I'm paid to fix someone's Wordpress blog or to draw logos or designs.
• If I work 3x as hard, I get to keep 3x as much cash instead of the main boss skimming all that cash off.
• It's easier to negotiate with clients for unpaid time off than you can with a manager and a cubicle job.
• At my cubicle job, if I was stuck in a no-win situation, or had a client I didn't like, I had to put up with it. In my freelancer job, I can ditch this client and move on.
• I can make video blogs with sock puppets and collect money on ad revenue.
• I can take a swim 2-3 times a day for a couple minutes, then hop back to work.
• I can take a 15 minute break to goof with a guitar or play with my dog.
• My wife always knows where I am and can ask me to do an errand for her.
• I save a TON on gas bills. Most people with cubicle jobs are now driving 1 to 2 hours to work each day, burning through at least $80 to $120 a week in fuel. That comes to about 6% of one's average salary in the USA!! That means that you spend like 2 hours of your week working just to pay the gas bill.
  
• I can take my work with me easily on vacation to any place in the entire world where I can pick up a wireless connection.
• I can go with my own framework and design decisions on most projects, doing what I think is logical and the best idea, not the idea of some moron.