Freelance Switch : 10 Biggest Mistakes Freelance designers make!

http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/the-10-biggest-mistakes-freelancers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them

Good article on this blog - talking about our mistakes we make as freelance designers and we should learn from our mistakes (but somehow we continue to fall over our own mistakes) - Its really easy to feel trapped being a student freelancer, you feel like money shouldnt be a real issue because your just hoping to get briefs you can work on to build on your portfolio, but then you dont want to be taken advantage of cause really as we know it, when we anticipate or quote for a 3hr job, you've really invested more than that time. Thinking about it also qualifies as time spent on it, rather than just the actual design of it. Its a tough world out there for freelance designers. And of course clients like to chuck in 'oh there are other designers out there that charge less' - I guess its up to you whether you want to beg for this client to stay or let them go and hopefully get clients who want to work WITH you and understand the challenge and amount of thinking and decisions we go through to complete the brief. I guess its hard not to feel like your incapable because giving that brief to anyone, you will get so many interpretations and someone else might get it spot on, where as it took say 2 rounds of revisions. Really, just believe in your capabilities andd have confidence cause theres a reason why the client has choosen you to do the work.

Now I just got to believe in what I've just said.