# National Freelancers Day

_Published on 9 June 2016 at 4:30 PM · Updated on 1 July 2025 · Around 1 minutes to read_

I stumbled upon this hashtag [#NationalFreelancersDay](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalFreelancersDay?src=hash) on Twitter, which celebrates National Freelancers Day on June 9th (*Yip, I’m so ‘merican like that … *) so I thought it’s only appropriate to write something given that while I don’t call myself a freelancer (which has something to do with my distaste for the word ‘free’ for obvious reasons) I am kinda a freelancer.

Permanent employment has simply escaped me and being an entrepreneur feels like it requires me to have more of a business with product, employees etc. While I am certainly always trying to find that next big opportunity, I remain self employed. Its common these days to rather say, what occupies your time and for me I mostly contract, consult, coach, produce and educate independently, which is another way of saying, *freelancer*.

**Happy National Freelancers Day!**

While the work I do is most certainly not free, I am feeling generous, so to celebrate National Freelancers Day my thoughts are something like this …

> On this, #NationalFreelancersDay, I’m going to write off the debt from those poor clients who were never going to pay me anyway.

[@GriddleOctopus](http://twitter.com/GriddleOctopus)

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