There are a thousand things to worry about as a freelancer. Some are big, some are small, but no single thing should occupy an overwhelming amount of space in your brain as you build out your freelance business.

That said: There absolutely are some things that most freelancers worry about that they just shouldn’t. But it’s understandable! We’re all out here making our own way, and there isn’t exactly a handbook for doing this right. It can be hard to know what’s worth our anxiety and what we should just let roll off our backs.

In my dozen+ years of working directly with freelancers, both as a commissioning editor at The Times and here at FWT, I’ve come to realize that there are a few seemingly universal things that occupy an outsize amount of space in freelancers’ psyches that I — and most editors — don’t care about or, more often, don’t even think about.

Here are three things you simply shouldn’t worry about ever again.

Ever since starting FWT, one of the most common questions I’ve gotten is: “Will editors look down on me if I’ve done X, Y, or Z type of writing/copywriting/project work/non-news writing/whatever else?” The answer most of the time is no. Unless that work presents a conflict of interest with other work you’re being assigned, no one cares! Editors understand that freelancers have to make a living, so as long as your other work doesn’t conflict with work you’re being assigned by a newsroom, do what you gotta do.