So I had been an amazing employee for 4 years, got employee of the year every year I was there.

Managed to handle design work alone and ace every project when all 4 of my coworkers left for an entire year.

But never got anything other than the “employee of the year” certificate, no raise in 4 years, no bonus, nothing.

And when my wife was in labour I was denied paid leave (which I had already earned).

I quit and started on my own, I am a logo designer, and the company I worked for specialized in marketing and Branding, I was always a talented artist and that is why I chose logo design as my career.

Visited every bakery, every small business in my town and finally got 2 orders, finished one and got paid a good bonus.

I’m very very happy with my new found independence, but it’s very tiring to find leads the way I am doing now. Any thing I can do to make it a bit easy ?