How to take the first step into freelancing?

[UTON Blockchain]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

[kotajikikox]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Freelancing is still a career even if there’s more freedom to it than being employed by a company or someone else. Some people feel like they do not thrive in an environment where they aren’t able to do anything freely.

The main reason I can think of why someone would decide to be a freelancer is time. When you are in a company, your time is tied to them. It is constricting and it doesn’t allow much to do anything else in life. Meanwhile with freelancing, you can be flexible with your schedule and you own your time. You can work in pretty much anywhere and anytime.

[bitLeap]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Not much different from other jobs because deciding to become a freelancer means being ready to compete, looking for resources where you have access, being mentally prepared because every field of work still has demands. Although freelancing upholds freedom in terms of time, it does not mean that you are lazy with the tasks that will be carried out.

[mindrust]

Making a career as a freelancer is not easy without a doubt. First you need to be very proficient at your craft and then you’ll have to find clients. The easiest way to do that is getting an account at fiverr or upwork but I heard upwork went full crap lately. You’ll have to spend from your own pocket just so you could send a message to your potential clients. I think it is not worth to use upwork anymore.

I think it is best to work under someone else for a while till you figure out everything about your job and then start your own company. Save some money while you wage slaving and use that money to get social media ads for your business later. That’s a better strategy.

[uneng]

The inclination for freelancing comes from the personal desire of achieving an autonomous and independent professional career, where you are your own boss who will organize and schedule your working time, without following the default workload stipulated by companies and governments.

It's a hard task, though, because you need to be recognized by your own efforts and results. There isn't a famous company working as middleman between you and the public, neither the government. You have to create your own marketing to reach the public somehow. Moreover, you will have thousands of competitors on the same field of work when doing freelance online. It's not a stable job you can count with every month.

Maybe it's better to not start your career as freelancer, but to migrate to it slowly, once you are a successful professional working for someone else. So you will already have someone to refer customers to you, what can boost your results positively when working by yourself.

[Hispo]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Freelancing sound good on paper, but it is not as easy as many people make it sounds. Freelancing means one is the only responsible if finding one's sources of job and create one's loyal costumers. That means the stream of money completely depends on one and not on others and that can be challenging.
I have known people who have gone freelance and they have told me it is hard to get established and make a good reputation for themselves out there in the jungle which internet is, eventually some of them have returned to work for a company.
It mostly depends on the life style one wants to have and whether one is able to keep it all together.

I have the opinion freelancing is mostly suitable for people who is childless and still have not settled down and started a family. In the end, it is better to try to start one's own company or business and start to hire people from it, not to become one's own boss but to become the boss of others.

[BIT-BENDER]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Well I think people fail to understand what the freedom in freelancing actually mean.
First you have to know that they is no job (self employed or working for someone) that you would find completely easy, so long as it's a job there must be some sort of efforts on carrying it out so if your definition of freedom on wealth creation is doing nothing completely then you have to throw it away.

So unlike many jobs where you are required to assemble at an office, hospital or where that is and work according to the conditions of your employees, freelancing is tailored to your location and to a high degree to your taste.  Freelancing is based on what you have to offer but if we are being honest is normal jobs you find out that you may end up doing more than what you had signed up for.

[Fortify]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

If we're talking about freelancing as a synonym for contract type work, where you have less job security but higher pay rates - then you need to be a lot more mentally resilient than most people. When you have a salary type job, you're able to almost forget about stability beyond whether your company is capable of surviving. If you are a freelancer you may constantly have to be looking for the next job you will move towards after the current one ends, sometimes managing leads and it can be quite stressful. It gets even harder when the labor market is tight and you have a lot more competition. Another downside is when the economy turns you'll often find that agency and short term contract workers are the first to be let go. Your pay better be enough to offset these downsides.

[beerlover]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Well I think people fail to understand what the freedom in freelancing actually mean.
First you have to know that they is no job (self employed or working for someone) that you would find completely easy, so long as it's a job there must be some sort of efforts on carrying it out so if your definition of freedom on wealth creation is doing nothing completely then you have to throw it away.

So unlike many jobs where you are required to assemble at an office, hospital or where that is and work according to the conditions of your employees, freelancing is tailored to your location and to a high degree to your taste.  Freelancing is based on what you have to offer but if we are being honest is normal jobs you find out that you may end up doing more than what you had signed up for.

Yes true, as someone who works as freelance for the past decade or so, I can say that it is not easy at all, it's quite tough. The best part is that you do it at your own home at your own comfort, as someone who lives in a crowded city, it was terrible to be on traffic everyday so I am glad to get rid of that, being at home all day is a huge huge benefit, to my mental health as well.

However, financially it is not really that shocking difference, if you do a good job sometimes to earn more, if you do not do a good job then you do badly. These days unfortunately my income is shrinking compared to inflation and I am not making much, but it's still a great life and I still love being at home all day, even taking naps during the day if I have the time, I love those days because they are very rare but sometimes it happens and I love that.

[aioc]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

And why not, especially now in the age of new technology, the internet made it possible? Freelancing is a good choice for a career shift; its flexible, and you get to experience communicating with different people from many sectors. and you get better pay because you get to work on people and companies where the work rate is better than where you are, which is why freelancing is such a huge sector on the internet.
Once you experience what its like to work as a freelancer, you'll get hooked on it.

[btc78]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Not much different from other jobs because deciding to become a freelancer means being ready to compete, looking for resources where you have access, being mentally prepared because every field of work still has demands. Although freelancing upholds freedom in terms of time, it does not mean that you are lazy with the tasks that will be carried out.

I actually think that freelancing requires more than your usual work because it encompasses almost everything. to be fair there are niches you can specialize in but the truth is you want to be good in a lot of things to accommodate whatever your client needs

there’s so many different tasks involved in freelancing that you should be able to adapt quickly and apply these changes to each task

[passwordnow]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand?

Yes, that's possible. It's not just one-man's story but I've heard it from a lot of them.

What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Freedom and money.
It's simple as that. People nowadays will choose to live happily and with the experience that we've got with the pandemic, we know that we have no hold of our lives and we can be at our ends in anytime of the day, the next day. That's why many are choosing to go with freelancing because of how it gives them the freedom to be with their family's again while working at their own pace.

[Oluwa-btc]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Freelancing sound good on paper, but it is not as easy as many people make it sounds. Freelancing means one is the only responsible if finding one's sources of job and create one's loyal costumers. That means the stream of money completely depends on one and not on others and that can be challenging.
I have known people who have gone freelance and they have told me it is hard to get established and make a good reputation for themselves out there in the jungle which internet is, eventually some of them have returned to work for a company.
It mostly depends on the life style one wants to have and whether one is able to keep it all together.

I have the opinion freelancing is mostly suitable for people who is childless and still have not settled down and started a family. In the end, it is better to try to start one's own company or business and start to hire people from it, not to become one's own boss but to become the boss of others.

No way, that's quite untrue.Freelancing gives people the opportunity to learn and develop knowledge from their own comfort,It doesn't have to be all of these actually.Freelancing is majorly freedom,time and money.At the end of the day, it's generally a good method to leverage and access your interpersonal skills,render certain services and also get paid.

[fruktik]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

And I also want to remind you about the responsibility that will fall on your shoulders. This is a very heavy burden. No one but you will complete the tasks assigned to you. You will not be able to escape your direct responsibilities. You need to understand that no one is going to pay you money for nothing. This is exactly the same work as in a standard offline job. Therefore, think carefully several times. Do not rush to rush headlong into it. A good option would be to combine it with another job at the initial stage. This way you will get several sources of earnings, income.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

freelancing is tougher than what it looks, you gonna compete with so many people that willing to lower their price just for the sake of getting client and also the established veteran freelancer who got big reputation, if you're just starting, it's gonna be rough, but I can understand the fact that people seek freedom and also want to be financially independent but just try to lower expectation when starting to start your freelancing career, best way is building solid portfolio.

the friends that I know that did freelancing doing it for side hustle only, they got real full time job and did freelancer on the side because their monthly earning from freelancing aren't stable and sometime they have very low earning.

[Kelward]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

Any work that gives you steady income can be classified as a career because you're putting time and energy into it, so freelancing is a career if you're making money from it overtime. The difference between a regular job and freelance is that you're employed permanently in a job while freelance is rendering services for a fee, there's job security if you're employed but you're on your own if you're into freelance. The advantage of being a freelancer is that you're your own boss, you have the freedom to operate at your own time rather than being confined in an office space during work hours. It's not easy to solely depend on freelance as a source of income if you're not well established in your area of freelancing.

[Die_empty]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

There are some career jobs that gives some level of freedom. But these jobs are reserved for skilful employees whose skills are in high demand. These employees usually give employers conditions for service. Career can also strive with the freedom of the employee if the worker has stake in the company. At this level they can tailor their work schedule to suit them.

But for the average worker career under a contract of an organization will cannot go hand in hand with freedom. Mostly in developing nations where there are high rates of unemployment, you are seen as the property of your employer. Your employer can call you at any time of the day to come and perform a task. If you are not comfortable with the way you are treated, you are free to live. Your position will be filled in less than few minutes because there are many people who are willing to perform these inhumane task better than you. The only way to enjoy freedom in this part of the world is to learn a highly needed skill or become self-employed.

[icalical]

Talking from experience, as a freelance we are free to work from anywhere but we still have timeframe when we should work, so it's not complete freedom, even sometimes the working hours are much more exhausting then regular job. Not everything is easy, moreover you won't have fixed income so you need to have good financial planning, if you can't safe your money and then the time of less work come you will struggle financially.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Can freedom and a career truly go hand in hand? What are the deeper reasons behind our choice or inclination towards freelancing?

The reason why some people choose freelancing is simply because it creates enough time for them to do other things if they want to and it also gives them the freedom to do any other thing such as having another job, starting and runing their own business and having enough time for their family too. So, someone can actually choose freelancing as a career but you need to acquire the skills required for it and you also need to be patient because in freelancing, you might not just start making money in the first one or two months.

There are many freelancing jobs, first step is identifying the one you want to go into and second thing is to learn how it works. Some freelancers  are into e-marketing (selling off products), script writing, software developing, etc. So, depending on the one you are planning on venturing into, you will learn the appropriate skill for it and then start to look for the opportunity online.

[Alone055]

Those who consider freelancing as a career with freedom know nothing about it. It's indeed your choice to decide when you want to work and when you don't, but you can't deny the fact that it can have consequences on your career or work if you decide not to work when your clients want you to work for them. You will slowly start losing your clients if you don't do things based on their requirements and deadlines, and things aren't as easy to manage as some people might think.

I have often seen people wishing they had a freelancing career because it allows them to have freedom while earning good money. That isn't how it works. If you want to make a lot of money, you will have to sacrifice your time and freedom for it, and this is not only about freelancing but in anything you do in your life.

In freelancing, you will first have to find clients that can give you work regularly, and then you will have to work according to their deadlines and you won't be the one who would decide that because you are still a worker and they are the ones paying you. So, the word 'freedom' doesn't fit in here, basically.