Re:Lessons from Freelancing
by serve_yay on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:38AM
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Hmm, I had thought the upside of freelancing was to make more money, at the expense of doing all the stuff listed here. The same amount of money plus all that is not really an appealing prospect. Though I suppose you could argue it's a better position overall because your name is "in the market" so to speak. But for me I would feel dumb if I busted my ass a lot harder than I do now just to make the same money.
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> Hmm, I had thought the upside of freelancing was to make more money, at the expense of doing all the stuff listed here.
No, absolutely not. You won't make more money.
You'll only make more money if you bring other people into the picture, but at that point, you're not a freelancer ... you're an agency.
You have the freedom to work how you want, on what you want, when you want, with who you want, and how much you want. You'll never have that at a job.
YMMV of course but, no, by and large freelancers (freelance writers at any rate) don't generally make more money than those who have more or less equivalent jobs at companies. They're either freelancers because that's increasingly the way markets are organized (good full-time paid gigs are relatively hard to come by) or they just like being their own boss.