Being of value: charging what you're worth

Thoughts that came up while I was contemplating payments for freelancers.

Now that I’m older—and thankfully a little wiser—I almost never work for free.
That doesn’t always have to mean money; it can be fulfilment or doing something because you genuinely believe in its importance.

For example, I create children’s books for the Dutch and Belgian markets, where about 80% of the work is unpaid. I choose to do this because I believ…