 Hello everyone, it's me again and today as you can see I am back in my office and as you can see by all this mess behind me I've brought over my books from Atlanta the ones that I have or some of the ones that I had there and there's believe it or not there's a method to all this madness behind me but that's not what I want to get into today. Today I want to talk about something else that's come across my radar and this has to do with the transition or in becoming a freelancer becoming a freelance translator and a very simple thing you can do to make it this easier to make this step easier because I see it tripping up a lot of people who are trying to make this step. Now you might be in all different types of situations right now some of you might be in school in which case if you're in school and you want to become a freelancer you want to work for yourself chances are all your classmates and your schoolmates around you most of them are not trying this most of them want to work for a company right so they're interviewing for jobs and they're doing stuff like that and it's a very different strategy it's a very different mindset from someone who then wants to just start their own thing and be in control of their own life and do their own business so it you need to keep this different mentality in mind and the same goes if you're if you're in a job right now maybe you are working for a company and you want to set out on your own then of course all your co-workers you know they're there at the job they're worried about making their bosses angry or sad or mad or whatever and collecting their paycheck while you're trying to create something you're trying to do something on your own and once again these are very different mindsets so how can you how can you deal with this because very often you'll find yourself reverting back to the other people's mindset if you keep talking to all your classmates or your co-workers who have this different type of mindset it's very hard to kind of branch out on your own and stick to it and so I've found it a lot easier when I basically change the crowd of people I hung out with I mean not change it obviously don't drop your friends but to start hanging out with other people in general and how do you do this well the easiest way I find is to well first of all to go to meetups go to meetup.com and chances are wherever you are in the world in your area there's some types of meetups going on and a lot of entrepreneurial ones are there you'll find ones for entrepreneurs for freelancers for all types of you know people working on their own because this is a great way for them to meet so a lot of them congregate on websites like this like meetup.com another one is internations internations.org I think if you go there usually you can find something in your city as well and these also tend to be a lot of independent professionals and entrepreneurs and stuff like that and so it helps a lot just to talk to people who have a much more similar mindset look a lot of these people are different on their own a lot of these entrepreneurs want to become an entrepreneur for very different reasons you know because they want to be in control because they want to work remotely because they want to spend more time with their family because they want to create the next Facebook but there's still more in a different type of world you know in this type of freelancer work for yourself world rather than nine to five working in office world so it really helps in terms of mentality to do stuff like that another place to look is co-working spaces if there are any co-working spaces around where you live then to check that out because everyone working there is going to be an entrepreneur and many times they organize events to you know just get together and to have people come visit them and stuff like that so look into that that's definitely a great place to go otherwise just check online check for your area wherever you are in the world sometimes it operates through Facebook groups or bulletin boards or stuff like that and you know search for entrepreneur or freelancer or something like that in your area in whatever language it might be you know depending where you are in the world and chances are you'll find something and it's just great it's a breath of fresh air if you're looking to enter this world or you are entering this world right now because even if you've already started things can be very lonely when you're first starting out because you're there on your own doing your thing and you don't have other people in your same shoes and it always helps to meet other people in your same shoes so look up these well first of all i would start with these websites so meetup.com and internations then look up co-working spaces and from there on out just check online also if you go to local coffee shops many times you'll see people very often the same people working on their laptops working on stuff and these will often be local entrepreneurs so you know try talking to them maybe and seeing what they know about the scene and you know what's going on and maybe they can help out i find very often freelancers and entrepreneurs are very helpful because you're really happy to meet someone else in your same shoes you know this is it's not it can be a very lonely type of business you're there working for yourself you're not sure if what you're doing is the right thing or the wrong thing and so it just helps so i hope you found this helpful as well and if you do please don't forget to click like because that always helps and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet also right 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