Freelancers Leaving the Comfort Zone
“You’ve spent years honing your design skills in that corporate cubicle you’ve been living in, hoping for the day when you would finally make the jump to full time freelance. You’ve taken on some side jobs from some friends or friends of friends, but now you are itching to be out on your own. There’s just one glitch…
“You know that corporate sales guy that’s been out getting those web and print design orders that land on your desk everyday? He’s not coming with you on your freelance excursion down the yellow brick road. From now on, you’ll be doing his job too.”
Effective Tips To Start Freelancing Without Getting Too Comfy
“There are many reasons to leave secure employment and embrace freelancing, from enjoying professional freedom to enjoying actual physical freedom. When you work for someone else, you spend eight (or more) hours in their office, and usually not just any hours, but those from 9:00 to 5:00, when everyone is awake and doing business. Don’t you resent that? Of course you do! Who wants to wake up every morning to go spend their most productive hours doing something marginally engaging, listening to criticism from people they do not particularly respect and whose judgment they often doubt, just to make someone else’s business grow?
“Sure, your end of the deal doesn’t look so bad: steady income, benefits, a job in your field of choice and being able to leave all your troubles behind when you go home. But if you’re a creative type, this arrangement will soon start to feel either too stifling or too comfortable, or both. That’s when you have to take a big risk and plunge into your own career.”
