Making Freelancing Better Than Conventional Jobs

How do you feel about your current 9 to 5 job? Do you enjoy your hi-position and wage? But in the other side, you feel there's less freedom to express your ideas and opinions. You work as told and for the sake of the company. You are limited by your working environment and suffering for not having enough time to be yourself.

Maybe for one time between your daily jobs, your mind popped up a thought of becoming a freelancer and start having an autonomy of your own future. You thought that you wouldn't need to work as much as you're told, you have the time in your grasp and you can use it the way you like. Further, you dream of having your rates higher than you do now.

Well, there's nothing wrong daydreaming. And those in your mind can be yours as long as you know how to set yourself to reach them. When you start your freelancing for the first time, unless you already have lots of connections in your subject/major/specialty, you need to bust your hands, legs, eyes, brain, shed a lot of blood, sweat and tears or maybe dribble to build your profile and trust. You may need to give out free samples, lowering the rates first, even working more than 8 hours a day. You will need to take care of your own auditing, cash flow, maintain your clients. At first, it feels worse than your old job, because you'll handle everything by your own. This is when I say that it is not impossible to have yourself work less than you used to be in your old office job. But, you'll have to fight for the luxury first. And if you're determined, the effort will pay itself more. From here on, what I like being a freelancer is that the effort I make effects my every future and I like the feeling that I'm responsible for my future. I still have a whole lot to learn though, but I'm seeing my path to success!