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Sep.15,2011 
Most people think freelancing is radical (not radical cool, but radical weird).
Many people can’t even imagine what it would be like to work someplace other than a corporate office with 3 – 5 “managers” watching you like a hawk.
Even some freelancers find it hard to believe they can earn a living wage without working 60 hours a week.
In the Ignite Fort Collins video below, my friend and fellow independent professional Nick Armstrong talks about why it’s bullshit to think this way.
To Nick’s fabulous points I would add that it is the responsibility of the very special mobile workers who make up the global coworking community to share this wisdom with the world.
Deskmag recently published an article about results of the 2011 Freelance Industry Report which found that while around one-third of the U.S. workforce is unemployed (those are 2005 stats btw), only about three percent use coworking spaces or shared offices.
Not surprisingly, the report also found that most freelancers list managing time, staying productive, and maintaining motivation throughout the work week as their biggest challenges.
Remember, you don’t have to become a 24/7 coworking evangelist to help share its solutions with your peers. Don’t inundate your fellow freelancers with articles and tweets. Instead, just let them see how happy you are. Talk about how coworking makes your more productive/connected/profitable. Talk about life before coworking, and the different path down which your business would have traveled if you didn’t find it.
Talk about benefits of coworking that have nothing to do with business or money: like how it gave you back your soul and got you showering again.
The coworking movement is growing rapidly, but there are still millions of professionals trapped in the belief that the 8-hour work day is the only way to work.
Let’s be a good community by setting the record straight. Together, we can save the world from 40 hours in a cube.
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