How to be a Freelance Survivalist

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I once attended an overnight survival skills course (research for a play). I figured it would be a combination of men, women and middle-aged couples who had given up drinking and were looking for a new hobby. I was wrong, it was me and 20 other men who had probably been looking forward to a woman free weekend but it was fine, all very accepting, even the serial-killer farmer.

I’m awful at knots and pretty good with fire which I knew already but my best takeaway from the evening was the rule of threes of survival. 3 minutes without breathable air or in icy water, 3 hours in a harsh hot or cold environment, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food.

There’s another kind of survival that’s close to my heart going into my second year of official copywriting; freelancer survival. I’m not going to moan about how difficult it can be, instead, I’ve written this blog. What lessons can we take from (mostly) real disaster scenarios to make ourselves robust freelance survivalists?

AIR

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You’re running out of air and have approximately three minutes till it’s game over. Is it a burning house? Is something choking you? It’s not looking good but you know…