Rob Perkins got a $5,000 freelance check and spent it all in weeks without noticing how. He paid off his credit card, covered an overdraft, made some purchases, and it was gone. The fix wasn't earning more, he says, but budgeting every dollar before you spend it.
A $5,000 check can disappear before you even realize where it went. That used to happen to me. A check would land, I'd pay off the card, cover the overdraft, then buy a few things, and a few weeks later it felt like the check never arrived. I thought I needed to make more money, but really I just needed to give every dollar instructions before I started to spend it. Follow me for more ways to manage unpredictable freelance film crew income.
