When I tell people I’m a writer
(i.e. an entrepreneur
who produces creative content
as her product),
folks get dreamy-eyed
and talk about how
it must be nice to work whenever I want,
to answer only to the muse,
to be free.
(eye roll)
Sure, I work whenever I want.
I can choose
any 12 hours
of each and every day.
The freedom myth is just that…
a myth.
Entrepreneurs (writers) answer to customers (readers),
partners (editors/publishers), media, etc.
They have deadlines to meet
or they don’t get paid.
They need to do things,
ship product,
or they don’t get paid.
There are a lot of wonderful reasons
to become an entrepreneur
(my favorite is to make the difference
I want to make)
but absolute freedom is not one of them.
Even
(or more accurately, especially)
entrepreneurs have tasks
they have to do.