Notes from our freelancers meet up on 1st July 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 1st July, twelve freelancers got together in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk freelancing, finding clients, and a lot of random stuff. This is some of the topics covered:
- Net connections have improved massively over time
- Contracts
- Getting the IT set up for companies
- Finding work through forums
- Finding work through networking
- Not trusting what AI writes
- Accidentally getting deeply technical with non-technical colleagues
- Experiences with the Police in the USA
- Sicily trip
- Offices and the loss of Friday lunchtime beers
- Smoking in offices
- The World Cup
- Weddings held outside
- The pressure on single folk to “find someone”