9 reasons to be a freelancer
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
In the modern office environment, particularly among IT people and creative people, recently emerged and rapidly developing religious cult of "free man". As a rule, a man who gave up his normal life, he began to work for themselves and now absolutely no one is independent and lives as he wants and where he wants. Life examples of successful entrepreneurs, freelancers, writers usually accompanied by bright pictures tropical beaches, where our hero with a glass in one hand and a laptop in the other lazily spikes another thousand dollars. Paradise, and only!
However, this, like any other popular prints, contains too high a layer of gloss. For every thing you need to pay, but for a product like Liberty, You must pay triple. We'll tell you about the pitfalls and problems that you have to overcome on the way from the office plankton to "free man."
1. Social protection
Now you can only rely on yourself, you do not get health insurance, paid sick leave, paid holidays, pensions and many other common benefits and advantages of employees large firms. While you are young, you are not really thinking about it, but over time it becomes more and more important.
2. - Freedom is only an appearance
Your expectations can be artfully deceived. You get rid of the need to hurry to work by a certain time, but at the same time get a long working day. Do you think that most will never see his stupid boss, and in return receive dozens of discerning customers who behave worse. It is likely that soon your old life office you will find a stronghold of peace and comfort.
3. Separation of work from private life
Now you can not close the door of the office and the next day to completely forget about the job. You do not turn off your phone and do not stop to check your mail, because can do important order or a call from a client. Forget about his personal life, and now you do not have it.
4. You work for all
If you have worked in a large office, where one department does not know what the other is doing, and for any action necessary to fill a pile of papers, you can relax - now you will be working one for all. If you have an online store, then at first you have to work and a loader, and a courier, and receiving department orders, translators will have to look for customers, and if you are a writer, you have to learn how to sell their masterpieces.
5. suspense
Yes, working for a company, you feel a cog in a big machine. But the "big machine" has a recognizable name, the authority, the ability to throw off competitors in the ditch and resources to survive the hard times. Starting work on yourself, you will not run again so that "you - no one to call you in any way", and on building your own terrain vehicle your whole life may need.
6. Forget about vacation
Good looking guy in the first picture, right? The only problem is that he does not rest, it works. Perhaps it solves an important problem and does not notice the sun, water and sand around. You need a vacation?
7. Loneliness
Articles about office life like to remember about tyrants chiefs and officers fools. But it happens quite often, very different: a great friendly staff, the chief of the wise, parties, corporate parties. You are now one and spread the word not with anyone, so be prepared for loneliness attacks.
8. attitude of others
For many, many people the word "freelance" consonant with the word "unemployed". All normal people get up in the morning and go to work, and you drink coffee and sit down at the computer. Here you can come across a misunderstanding even close, especially at first, until you numbers on your account can not prove the importance of their work.
9. instability
You do not know when will be selected on holiday (it depends on the client), you can not plan your day, as there is no fixed schedule for working hours, your income increases and dry out. You have lost control over their lives. We are confident that this freedom?
You can add to the list or deny? I invite you to the discussion in the comments.