In all of my entrepreneurial life, I have never come across online accounts until my dear poker client. So technically when I accepted the project, it was my baptism in fire. It was in that situation when I first heard the word Paypal. You can just imagine how my fellow writers had a good laugh when I thought it was another courier company, which I presumed to be FedEx’s newest rival.
If they could have seen me using it for the first time, they would have lost their respect of me; why in God’s universe can’t I put in the right security code for my Visa card? Well, it was after almost thirty minutes of not giving up did I realize that I was typing in the last three digits of my account number. And that’s not all, here comes withdrawal, I simply didn’t know how to do it. So I swallowed my pretentious pride and asked my client. My alibi? I used another payment method before as I exasperatedly said, “How can Paypal be so troublesome?” Luckily, my client is a good level-headed man, who seems to have a calm attitude about everything. I’m now on my way of making Paypal my best pal for now until I discover other means of online payment.
And so there goes my first Paypal encounter; The lesson to learn here is, just like any other business in its early stages, going into freelance work has birthing pains. It starts from how to direct the flow of your blog (by the way, how am I doing?), learning the ropes around the trade, but nothing beats rejections; you should know how to handle them. A freelancer should have a high threshold for rejection pain. It’s that kick and punch you give the air when you’re given a no or more nos than yesses.
