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To be free - from a full time contract. It's been 3 weeks since becoming a freelancer, yet I haven't yet felt the "completely free" feeling yet. I'm thankful for to be spending most of my days at BBC Africa, and the other days at Radio 2.
When I was a trainee with Radio 2, I met and worked with loads of freelancers, all of who are so lovely! It was enlightening and almost frightening hearing about their experiences and the struggles of freelancing, all over [.....]
They're actually normal.
You'll randomly bump into them in the toilets. A lot.
They have so. much. tea.
Their work ethic is unreal.
Their production team are like oxygen to them.
They swear a lot.
The more they see and work with you, the more they're (too) open with you.
They don't know how much anything is e.g. they'd give you a £20 note to buy a pack of chewing gum.
They tell you to keep the change (but don't, out of courtesy)
They know your face, won't remember your name.
Behaving starstruck around them is like slow dancing to techno music - makes no sense.
They'll ask [.....]
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So, as I mentioned in an earlier blog post a few months ago, I began presenting on a local community radio station at East London radio, which I'm growing to genuinely really enjoy. We speak about a range of different topics. I like to occasionally listen over to our shows ensuring that my quality of presenting is getting better and improving.
I think what I should definitely start practising more is preparing [.....]
