Know your worth and value: The reality of freelancing

What should you charge for your work? How do you know whether you're being paid fairly? And how do you build a sustainable career when your workload, income and even your job title can change from week to week?In this episode, I talk to freelance journalist and podcast host Grace McIntosh about the realities of building a freelance career in media.Grace has been freelancing in one form or another since she was a child, but says that the education and training she received didn't necessarily prepare her for the less glamorous side of freelance life, money, tax, pensions, workload, work-life balance and managing an ever-changing workflow. Here I answer some of her questions about that and we talk about being black, from Wakefield and working-class in the media industry.The Media Mentor is here to help your media career whether you are starting out, or if you are further on in your career or struggling with job applications. Support and mentoring sessions are available via the website.There are also 6 pages of media jobs to browse and a WhatsApp channel for alerts.Read and subscribe to my newsletter on Substack and LinkedIn.More details about The Media Mentor can be found here.For all the latest job listings head here.To get alerts on media jobs as they drop follow the MM WhatsApp channel here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.