10 freelance tips I wish I knew sooner

These are the 10 things I wish I knew when I started as a freelance graphic designer 15 years ago. From what should be in your contract to how to make sure you actually get paid, these are all the little things I've had to figure out the hard way. Am I missing any? What's something you wish someone had told you when starting out? The best advice I can give to anyone starting out as a graphic designer or any kind of creative has nothing to do with skills, or their work, or their clients. It's to create a system to collect inspiration early on. Look at a lot of great stuff, and make it useful to you so that you can refer back to it later. It may not seem like the most important thing, but that one habit will help everything else you want to do for the rest of your creative career. WANT TO WORK WITH ME? // www.peregrinecreative.co