Reading:

Creative, Inc. : The Ultimate Guide to Running A Successful Freelance Business

I'm only on page 46, but so far, so very good. I love the fact that the authors got so many young talented creatives from a diverse range of backgrounds to give their take on their experience and dish out advice. Prop stylists, photographers, writers, etc.

Being in architecture, it's not really as unsupported as other creatives, you have governing professional bodies that will help you, and the years of work experience required before being able to register will teach you what you need to know.

But still, you can never learn too much. So very inspiring to learn about others who took the scary road down to freelancing and made it work for themselves.

I've never really talked about it to very many people, but I have planned to be in my own practice by the time I'm 30. It's not as ambitious as some others who have ventured out on their own right after uni, but I think with architecture, there's so much to learn and your decisions get cemented into other people's lives; affecting them for a long time. It's hard for me to be able to brush off and learn from my mistakes through making that way.

Of course, time to network and learn about local suppliers, builders and the like would be invaluable.

Back to the book, highly highly recommended to anyone in the creative field who has ever had that itch to take their careers into their own hands and do what they want. Never too early to plan.

Things discussed in the book include anything from advice to partnerships, getting licenses, pre-freelancing steps, working from home etc. All dished from others who've been down the very same round, the tone is relaxed and youthful with a lot of realistic notations about what to expect.

I bought mine from Metropolis in Curtin House, Melbourne. For $25, just saw it going in Amazon for $11! Oh well. It's a sweet read and I don't regret it. Go get yourself one. (: