I've made many changes along the way, and perhaps freelancing is a form of work that requires constant reorientation. I will describe these changes from the aspects of career development and mood, and at the same time, I hope to give some references to friends who have taken a similar path. I started freelancing because I found it challenging but not exciting, and I wanted to see what it would be like to turn something I loved into work. This idea lasted about a year. It was a difficult decision. During this process, I kept confirming whether leaving my job and starting my own business was the life I really wanted. Some very important friends, who had been entrepreneurs for years, gave me the encouragement to make the final decision: "I think you were born to be an entrepreneur, and being in the corporate world is not for you anymore." So I quit. When faced with a big choice, listen to a variety of people, make your own decision, and stick to it. At the moment, I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track. Starting a business really suits me. In September 2019, I started to decorate the raw room in Shenzhen after I got it. Before that, I rented a one-bedroom living room nearby and drew design drawings for three months. At that time, I also regarded myself as an entrepreneur and was working on a collection design work, which was my own house. I often paint until 3 am and still get excited, so I think I like to design other people's houses. By studying the people in the house's yearning for a better life, I turned their ideas into reality little by little. In particular, I solved all the problems that can't be solved in the current house in the new house. The wonderful way of life, which is not found at present, is elevated and amplified in the new house. In February 2020, during the Spring Festival, we officially moved into our new home. At the time, my mother-in-law was helping me take care of the children, so at first it was just me, my mother-in-law and my son in the new house. During this period, in addition to designing the house, I also registered a personal public account to write articles related to storage and update them about once a week. And all the while, I had no income. At that time, I did not know that I was engaged in the work of "we media", nor did I know the words such as personal IP. My circle of friends was still the same people I knew from my previous job, and the work I was facing was new to me, so every step I took was slow. No income, only consumption, the economic pressure is very big, but fortunately I have taken this into account in advance, so the degree of freedom is relatively good. Freedom and time to think is very important at the beginning of a business, so even though it was hard at that time, it doesn't seem painful to recall now, it feels like a normal state.

In April 2020, I uploaded the decoration diary of my house to my personal official account and the platform of Haohao Living, which immediately got a lot of attention. There are some official platforms to interview me, such as live fan, live well and so on. I don't know what it means to get attention. It's just communication. At this point, I started thinking about making money. The first order I received was to design a house for a client, which was mainly related to storage design. My friends suggested that I cooperate with some soft decoration companies. I was responsible for storage design and they were responsible for soft decoration. But this easy path is hard for me because I don't know how to talk to the company I want. I took some detours and it didn't work out. There was an episode when a person in charge of a soft decoration company came to me and wanted to cooperate with me to design a house decoration scheme for his clients. He had seen my house in Shenzhen and agreed with the humanistic care and design concept, so he offered to pay me separately and asked me to do storage design for the client's house. I was very happy during that period. Someone offered me the opportunity to design, which was a very lucky thing and gave me great confidence. But it didn't work out in the end, which I'm sorry to say.

I've made many changes along the way, and perhaps freelancing is a form of work that requires constant reorientation. I will describe these changes from the aspects of career development and mood, and at the same time, I hope to give some references to friends who have taken a similar path. I started freelancing because I found it challenging but not exciting, and I wanted to see what it would be like to turn something I loved into work. This idea lasted about a year. It was a difficult decision. During this process, I kept confirming whether leaving my job and starting my own business was the life I really wanted. Some very important friends, who had been entrepreneurs for years, gave me the encouragement to make the final decision: "I think you were born to be an entrepreneur, and being in the corporate world is not for you anymore." So I quit. When faced with a big choice, listen to a variety of people, make your own decision, and stick to it. At the moment, I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track. Starting a business really suits me. In September 2019, I started to decorate the raw room in Shenzhen after I got it. Before that, I rented a one-bedroom living room nearby and drew design drawings for three months. At that time, I also regarded myself as an entrepreneur and was working on a collection design work, which was my own house. I often paint until 3 am and still get excited, so I think I like to design other people's houses. By studying the people in the house's yearning for a better life, I turned their ideas into reality little by little. In particular, I solved all the problems that can't be solved in the current house in the new house. The wonderful way of life, which is not found at present, is elevated and amplified in the new house. In February 2020, during the Spring Festival, we officially moved into our new home. At the time, my mother-in-law was helping me take care of the children, so at first it was just me, my mother-in-law and my son in the new house. During this period, in addition to designing the house, I also registered a personal public account to write articles related to storage and update them about once a week. And all the while, I had no income. At that time, I did not know that I was engaged in the work of "we media", nor did I know the words such as personal IP. My circle of friends was still the same people I knew from my previous job, and the work I was facing was new to me, so every step I took was slow. No income, only consumption, the economic pressure is very big, but fortunately I have taken this into account in advance, so the degree of freedom is relatively good. Freedom and time to think is very important at the beginning of a business, so even though it was hard at that time, it doesn't seem painful to recall now, it feels like a normal state.

In April 2020, I uploaded the decoration diary of my house to my personal official account and the platform of Haohao Living, which immediately got a lot of attention. There are some official platforms to interview me, such as live fan, live well and so on. I don't know what it means to get attention. It's just communication. At this point, I started thinking about making money. The first order I received was to design a house for a client, which was mainly related to storage design. My friends suggested that I cooperate with some soft decoration companies. I was responsible for storage design and they were responsible for soft decoration. But this easy path is hard for me because I don't know how to talk to the company I want. I took some detours and it didn't work out. There was an episode when a person in charge of a soft decoration company came to me and wanted to cooperate with me to design a house decoration scheme for his clients. He had seen my house in Shenzhen and agreed with the humanistic care and design concept, so he offered to pay me separately and asked me to do storage design for the client's house. I was very happy during that period. Someone offered me the opportunity to design, which was a very lucky thing and gave me great confidence. But it didn't work out in the end, which I'm sorry to say.