The credit crunch helped me into self-employment. Before the global financial meltdown, I was a full time employee and the deputy editor of Growing Business magazine. But then the banks fell over and the ad money dried up. In the summer of 2009, I was made redundant and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.I have been self-employed for over a decade now, and have worked for dozens of different titles, publishers and broadcasters, plus many non-media clients, too. I will never be an employee again and I do not want to depend on someone else for my income. For me, prospering as a journalist means being an entrepreneur. Here is what I have learned.
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