In July of 2011, everything seemed pretty good for Freelance Illustrator and Designer, Jon Laing. In August of 2011, he was broke and at odds with all of his major clients. So, posed with two options—work for peanuts and hope everything worked itself out and potentially have to give up living independently in the city, or give up freelancing—Jon chose to be a quitter.
Armed with a freshly designed résumé, recently ironed dress clothes that hadn’t seen the light since Senior prom, an art school diploma and a pair of tattered converses with gaping holes in the soles, Jon landed himself a web development job.
Now, the aspiring freelancer spends his work days in an office cubicle building medical software and struggling to cope with the radical change of plans.
