As the winter holidays approach, it’s a good time to think about work-life balance and all of the overhead that comes with being a freelancer. Register to join the Academic Editing Chapter’s coffee chat on Thursday, November 16 at 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT to discuss how we handle billing for tasks that are crucial to our jobs but that may be invisible to clients. Some questions to consider:

• How do you account for time communicating with clients during their projects?
• What about the time spent communicating with them before a contract is signed or deposit is paid?
• Do you track time while PerfectIt is running?
• What about time onboarding clients, or meeting with them?

(Photo shows a coffee mug and open laptop sitting on a desk. A large Zoom meeting is displayed on the laptop screen. Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash.)