You are welcome! It is a significant switch! Freelancing is very different from having an employee relationship. It requires a lot more self discipline than being an employee (in my opinion). It also gives you more flexibility to maintain your own work/life balance.

You are more than welcome! It was a challenge to balance work and family, but this was a choice I enjoyed. I just can’t live with just one language. This made it so that when I launched full time I already had very significant experience.

And just for the record, the low pay for the year was not because I charged low rates. Many times it was because I had spent a lot of money on dictionaries, courses, a computer, or whatever else, and I had only made myself available on a limited basis. However, my clients liked me enough that when I got my NYU Certificate and said I was available full time, my business tripled in a month. It was a good, solid foundation.