Permanent Loss

Taking a full time after working freelance is great because now you have a place you can call your home. However, warm security of home is only one of the perks. You also have the new influx of possible friendships you can build with your new co-workers.

In my office, there are two desks. One, obviously mine, looks onto the other and the door to the office. That other desk? It's a bermuda triangle of employment.

The true inhabitant of that desk is on sabbatical at the moment and will be returning in August. In the meantime, the desk is filled weekly (sometimes for weeks at a time) with freelancers.

Working in close quarters with a freelancer, or anyone for that matter, you begin to develop a working-bordering-on-friends relationship. The longer you work with that person and the longer they are here, the stronger the bond you make, and likewise the more you start treating that person like a member of the staff.

But then poof....they're gone.

More money, bad planning, double booking, or any number of factors have pulled this person away from the desk, usually never to return.

The pisser of the whole thing is that some of those freelancers I have considered friends. Peoples I'd like to hang with. My types of peoples.

Problem is, I am still a freelancer at heart, working all the time to make that coin. And they are the same...so we never have time to communicate.

Then there are those I don't click with....in that case, I think it works out for the best...but seriously, it's not you...it's me.

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