THE FREELANCE CAREER SKILLS AUDIT
The structured first stage of
your 9–5 exit.
How to turn your 9–5 office experience into structured, paid freelance income, without retraining or starting from scratch
If you’re questioning your 9–5…
But you don’t want to blow everything up…
Start here.
Not with clients.
Not with branding.
Not with retraining.
With clarity.
This is a structured decision-making tool for experienced office professionals ready to redesign how they work.
Most experienced office-based millennial mums don’t struggle with capability.
They struggle with translation.
Inside employment, your value sits inside a job title.
Outside employment, it needs to become defined services.
That shift - from employee to independent professional - is the first stage.
And it’s the stage most women try to skip.
This audit gives you structure.
Inside, you’ll work through a clear, guided process to:
✔ Identify the professional capital you’ve built over years
✔ Translate your experience into 2–3 realistic freelance service directions
✔ Understand which style of freelance work fits your life right now
✔ Draft a clear sentence describing what you offer and who you help
✔ See how your skills sit within the freelance market
By the end, you won’t have everything mapped out.
But you will know what you could offer - and why.
And that removes more fear than motivation ever will.
Why this stage matters
You can’t confidently:
Set rates
Pitch clients
Or replace your salary
Until you can clearly describe what you do.
Clarity → structure → income.
In that order.
This is for you if:
– You’re experienced but feel stuck translating your skills
– You don’t want to retrain
– You want to leave the office 9-5 structure
– You want income that works around family life
– You don’t want to squeeze life into the weekends anymore
– You’re serious about redesigning how you work - sensibly
The 9–5 Exit Framework
Stage 1 — Define your skills and service direction
Stage 2 — Structure your services and rates
Stage 3 — Build early client traction
Stage 4 — Transition income
This audit is Stage 1.
Without it, everything else feels unstable.
With it, the next step becomes obvious.
Hi, I’m Vicky.
I spent over 10 years in office-based roles before building a portfolio-style freelance business earning around £50k working roughly 25 hours a week — structured around family life rather than the other way around.
I didn’t retrain.
I translated the skills I already had.
This audit is the structured process I wish I’d had when I was trying to work out what I could actually offer outside employment.
Nothing dramatic. Just clarity.
£27
Designed for office millennial mums ready to stop guessing.