You know the stuff you wish they taught you in Uni and the problems facing your industry? Any questions about managing your invoices, taxes, and the difficult admin of your specific industry will all be answered in here
The world of work is changing. How businesses run, where they operate from and how individuals work is shifting as technology creates more options ...
Freelance organisations demand halt to private sector legislation Eleven groups representing UK contractors and freelancers have come together and ...
An article published on 7th May this year caught the attention of a lot of people. Titled “Offices can be Hell for people whose brains work differe...
It wasn’t until I left Devon’s hedgerows that I discovered theatre in a ‘cultural’ capacity. Sure, the Queen’s Theatre in Barnstaple offered a vari...
Foley Artists work in soundproofed studios with different surfaces laid out, such as concrete, floorboards, sand and gravel, and are full of variou...
Half of UK freelancers have not been paid for work A study by Yuno Juno found more than half (55 per cent) of freelancers have done work they have...
Last week, a colleague relayed to me their experience of being wrongfully accused of fraud after an errant payment was mistakenly sent to their acc...
It is notoriously difficult for former convicts to find work, and we want to start the discussion around whether the “clean slate” aspe...
We’ve all been there. You wake up in the morning and just feel generally flat. The days merge into one and even the simplest tasks are an effort. Y...
Travel writing is one of the most glamorous types of writing, and for good reason. Getting flown all over the world to stay in incredible hotels an...
‘Fiasco’: HMRC glitch means self-employed could face an unexpectedly large tax bill in January There has been a “glitch” in HMRC’S tax ...
Long before the idea of freelancing became common parlance, the lives and careers of artists have offered a window into what it’s like to forge a s...
We grew up with the concept of ‘3 meals a day’ engrained into us. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were compulsory. Then all these new concepts started ...
The only way social media should affect your mental health is for the better. It should absolutely never, ever be a platform that makes you feel ba...
I’ve not always been sure of what I wanted to be. I knew I was a writer, but there are many ways to be a writer, and all of them interested me. I d...
Tax changes forced on self-employed people working in the public sector from 2017 are now set to reduce the take-home pay of 170,000 contractors wo...
Cyril Connolly, editor of the literary magazine Horizon, said in his book Enemies of Promise in 1938 that: ‘There is no more sombre enemy of good a...
Back in the day, if someone wanted to get fit or lose weight, they would just put their trainers on and hop on a treadmill for 45 minutes. For some...
When I’m not writing think-pieces about the culture industry, I spend my time working in a university bookshop; ‘pyramiding’ (industry lingo for re...
If you told me a year ago I would be selling my own ceramics at amazing markets and online, as well as winning a scholarship to Edinburgh College o...
