Reader of the Week: Miryam Stenger – Day 22 – 31-DBBB Challenge

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If you read yesterday’s post, you will know that I have a blogging buddy (something that is highly recommended by this very Challenge and elsewhere): Mario Kluser of Mario LIVE! So, the other day I received a wonderful and insightful comment from a reader, Miryam Stenger, on my post titled The Successful Freelancer Knows How to Compartmentalize, and I told Mario about it. I said, hey, I got the best comment ever from this woman I don’t know, perhaps a new reader. Meanwhile, I approved the comment (it was her first on this blog) and it appeared at the bottom of the post.


Mario then takes a look, reads it, and says, yeah, Miryam, I know her. She’s in my BlogLog. My BlogLog is just another online community, a way to put a face to a name. If you join, when you visit people’s site who have the widget on their front page, you see all the other members of My BlogLog who are part of this blogger’s particular community.

Now, Miryam does not have a site, or a blog, or at least she does not connect a link to her signature when she leaves comments, so I cannot visit her site and leave comments there, or give her a link here. What I can do is thank her. There are two reasons why I wish to thank her publicly:

1. She is obviously an attentive and insightful reader, and that is much appreciated by this writer;
2. She has inspired me to continue developing the theme of this article. Freelancing is hard, in many ways, and Miryam is just the most recent and vocal of people who have reached out to me after I wrote the article in question. So I am going to be making it into a series, and I will try to tackle as many of the facets of this career path as I can.

So thank you, Miryam, for your comment.

In her comment Miryam describes suffering from exactly one of the problems I describe in the article, struggling to juggle family commitments with work. And in the end, as many of us do, she ends up working into the wee hours of the morning because that’s the only time when the house is quiet and she can concentrate undisturbed. But that is no way to live, at least not in the long term.

So, Miryam and all you freelancers who struggle to find a balance out there, I will write more on this topic and address as many issues as I can. But please, ask questions, make comments, interact with us. The more I know about you, the more I can help you.

Tagged as: Freelancer, Writer