Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

I work when, and where I want to.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

I need to work outside government, on my own.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.