Notes from the freelancers meet up on 16th October 2024

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On a very rainy Wednesday evening, 12 freelancers met in the Battle of Trafalgar, Brighton. This is some of what we talked about:

  • The challenges and benefits of working within the charity sector
  • Ideas for finding work
  • What did you do before freelancing?
  • Jobs that are a grind
  • Recommended: the TV show “Alma is not normal” (BBC)
  • Pet insurance vs no pet insurance over time
  • Uses of Chat-GPT
  • Social media after Twitter – where has everyone gone?
  • “Early” an email list for bands and gigs
  • X falls out of the Digital Markets Act as not enough Europeans using it
  • Old games were really hard
  • Games controller use in the military
  • Cat pictures
  • Rebrands that annoy designers because they’re so much worse than the previous branding
  • Changing the focus of your work as market demands have changed
  • The market is still really hard, have you felt that for one year or two?

(Sorry, no highlights this week as I’m full of cold.)