Freelancing through recession: How our puniness protects.
We freelancers are prone to posing. We blithely assume such titles as President, CEO, Founder and the like, when our only subordinates are ourselves, difficult as we may be to supervise. We regularly buttress our business identities with names suggestive of manpower and resources we do not possess. And we tend to pretend to office acreage, when we in fact work steps from our kitchen, usually without shoes on. All in the name of ambition, success, and a general sense of grownupness we feel we might otherwise lack.
