5 freelancers who changed the world

Freelance - is not just a word that means that you do not go on to work in the morning. This is a special state of mind, independence and responsibility for themselves. This is the spirit of entrepreneurship. It honed skills and tremendous confidence. It is the willingness to change every day, and the ability to change the world.

1. Ray Kroc, the seller and marketer

Perhaps you do not know, but it was the man who founded the world's largest fast food chain - McDonald's Corporation. Businessman, Entered by the TIME magazine, the list of "100 most important people of the century", started his career activities by trading paper cups, then worked as an ambulance driver, agent property.

He began a freelance career as a freelance Seller mixers for cocktails. Then Ray came up with its own model mixer and become self-promote their invention to customers. And he was engaged in this for almost 30 years - as long as he met with the brothers McDonald (author of the concept) and went into the restaurant business. The results of his work, you know very well. By the way, based on the time McDonald's

McDonald's Kroc was already 52 years.

2. Walt Disney, photographer and designer

He left school at the age of 16 to enlist in the army but was refused because of his age. Then the young man decided to join the Red Cross and became an ambulance driver in France. At the end of the First World War, Walter Elias Disney returned home and began selling his drawings, cartoons and caricatures of various publications. Unfortunately, to make this bread was very difficult.

In the end, he was appointed designer at the art studio, however, did not stop to think about self business. The first experience was to create Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists commercial studio, and it was a disaster. Next company called Laugh-O-Gram, and she also quickly went bankrupt.

Walt was disappointed, but not broken. Further 15 years he worked exclusively freelancing: actively selling their pictures to various studios, newspapers, advertising customers. Engaged in photography, design, decoration works. And do not leave the hobby animation, which in result made him great.

3. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of

Nobel is known to us primarily as the inventor of dynamite, but few people know that during his life he also made many discoveries in the field of physiology, electrochemistry and biology. He designed the automatic brakes, boilers, has created a detonator, tried to produce artificial rubber and leather, invented a way to produce plywood. Some of these inventions were made for individual customers or sold to others, Alfred used on its own production.

The main feature of Alfred Nobel, distinguishes it from other scientists of the time, had the ability not only to reflect but also to the effective promotion of its ideasTo achieve their commercial success. The one person he was a engineer, inventor, advertising agent and co-founder of several enterprises.

4. Ernest Hemingway, writer

Hemingway became a classic of world literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize. But before the world recognized the talent in him, the author has passed a long and difficult career.

After participating in the war, he, like Walt Disney, was the driver of the ambulance. Then he settled down as a freelance correspondent in the US newspaper "Toronto Star". Here he was allowed to write on any topic, but paid only published material. Freelance Hemingway earned and after moving to Paris, and in parallel began work on his first novel, which brought him his first success as a writer.

5. Charles Dickens, journalist and writer

Dickens is known as one of the greatest novelists. But you could not be the envy of his life in the early years. His father was imprisoned for debt, and the family was devastated. Charles had to leave school to work as a loader in a factory for the production polish.

The only chance to get out from the bottom seemed happy to become a journalist, which he took full advantage. Dickens started as a judicial reporter, but even the meager line of sentences he could teach with such grace that it noticed quickly. Then there were seven years of freelance activity for a number of publications, the gradual growth of skill and career, as well as work in his free time over the first major literary work.

All these and many other famous personalities were engaged at the time exactly what we today call freelance. And you still think that freelancers for anything not suitable? Well then, please give me an example of an office worker who left his mark not upholstered chairs, and in the history of mankind. Weak?