| I'm starting to get bored of all those blogs that | | | | So everything depends on you, good or bad... this |
| talk about how good is to work as a freelance | | | | doesn't help much when you have to make a |
| designer. It looks like it's normal to get a salary of | | | | creative design. |
| 6 numbers, work 4hs a day, and having mega | | | | Continuous change |
| clients that ask for jobs anybody would do even | | | | What works today might not work tomorrow. |
| for free. | | | | This is the truth which every businessman has to |
| It's obvious that the positive side of any aspect | | | | face, that's why you have to be updated with the |
| of life has more audience that the negative side. | | | | new technology and tendencies... |
| This blogs live from the incomes coming from | | | | Multitasks |
| that audience, but i don't think it's a good | | | | It doesn't work only with designing, drawing, |
| philosophy to ignore it... let's be realist, being a | | | | writing, painting, photographs or whatever you do, |
| freelance worker has a lot of advantages, but | | | | and do it right, you also must learn to be a good |
| also a lot of inconveniences. | | | | businessman, and know about laws and |
| So let's face it, if we are more conscious about it, | | | | accountancy. |
| we will have more possibilities of success... | | | | You also need to know, at least, new technologies |
| Inestability | | | | and tendencies. |
| It is probably the most negative point, it's the | | | | Speciality |
| essence of the freelance worker. A month you | | | | It looks like a contradiction to the previous point, |
| are stressed because you have more work than | | | | but it's not. Think that when a company hires |
| you can do, and the next one you are looking for | | | | external staff it's because the company |
| a waiter job because you can't pay your bills. | | | | employees don't have the capacity to do it. |
| This is very common when you are starting, if | | | | So you must know a bit of everything, but being |
| you follow the advices of the article get a job as | | | | specialist in something... if possible, in various things. |
| a freelance designer in little time you will have | | | | Vacations and Social Security |
| stable clients, then you will start to really enjoy | | | | Forget about taking a month of vacations like |
| your work. | | | | wage-earner workers. Doing it is bad because you |
| That's why i recommend starting in this business | | | | will lose clients, your future income; besides, that |
| when you are young and you still don't have | | | | month you wont have any income... unless you |
| many responsibilities. If you already have a | | | | have an automated business, like a blog, an online |
| mortgage to pay, or a family to maintain it's | | | | store... that way you'll have a bigger margin. |
| possibly too late for you :( | | | | In Spain, the freelance worker is considered as a |
| Dedication | | | | "businessman", which has risks, so we don't have |
| Something i always comment with my freelance | | | | the right to unemployment. |
| friends, and they agree, is the fact that a | | | | There's no possibility of an early retirement |
| freelance worker is a freelance worker 24 hours | | | | before 65 years of age. |
| a day, there's no resting, if you are not working | | | | Now we finally have rights to sick leave. |
| directly you do it indirectly. The fact is that your | | | | Rentability |
| brain never stops working, you are always looking | | | | A couple of weeks ago i wrote an article about |
| for that idea for a design, or that marketing | | | | the price of an hour of work for a freelance |
| strategy to help you progress. | | | | worker and a wage-earning worker. My conclusion |
| You also need a lot of work hours, but productive | | | | was that to obtain a monthly salary equivalent to |
| work hours... it's better 1 hour of quality work | | | | a wage-earning worker, the freelance worker has |
| than 8 hours looking at the wall. | | | | to charge almost 4 times more per hour (in |
| Summing up: you must work a lot, be productive | | | | Spain): |
| and you also can't be distracted. | | | | "A designer employed in a company earning only |
| Loneliness | | | | will receive a salary of a freelance designer, has |
| The freelance designer works the 90% of the | | | | to charge about. |
| cases alone, you can always associate with other | | | | Being a freelance worker will make you pay more |
| designers, and gather with them like in my case, | | | | expenses that in the case of a normal worker |
| but never get to have a real associate. | | | | are paid by the boss. |
| This way your worries, problems, stress... stay | | | | As i always say, this kind of job is made for |
| for you. | | | | alternative people, rebels, risky... it's all or nothing. |
| Pressure | | | | If you do it well it can be the best work of the |
| You are your own boss, if you aren't able to do a | | | | world, but it also requires many sacrifices... and |
| task by yourself, because of your lack of | | | | not everybody is good for this. |
| motivation or capacity, noone will help with your | | | | In the next article we will write about the |
| work. | | | | advantages of being a freelance worker. |