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RE: Becoming a freelancer - Beginnings are hard
You're perfectly right! Although it's funny... To me, the easy option seems the hardest, because if you end up having a job you hate (like many do), you have to put up with it every single day. I'd get mad :) Wouldn't you? But yes, it's financially easier since you get paid as soon as you start work, vs. when you start freelancing.
Discipline - exactly. That's one of the most challenging parts. I still deal with it, but it keeps me awake :) I'll write about that in the next post, thanks for sharing.
What are the other aspects of freelancing from your perspective?
And did you start freelancing first, or had a job before?
I've had quite a few jobs before, but I love my freedom more than my stability, so I ended up freelancing. :D And somehow I always tend to choose the hard way. :))))
One of the most important thing for me right now is the time of day I choose to do my work on. I'm an early morning person - I just finished my main work already by the way, before 0830 am - so if I don't work in the morning, it becomes harder and harder to do something. I experienced with different times throughout the day but I keep coming back to mornings, early or at least before 12. In the afternoon or evening I'm almost never able to work. :)
Imagine that the day barely starts for most people and you've already finished most of your work for the day. How do you think that feels like? ;)
There are other important aspects, like taking days off or vacations. Because I never know if I'm going to have enough work next month, I tend to choose work over relaxation all the time. And that led me to a burnout last autumn. But that's where savings come into play. A good amount of money set aside, so you know you can live for 3 to 6 months without working feels very important to me.
And then there's the fact that I have no work colleagues. There are more aspects, but let's keep it short here. There are articles to be written on the subject. ;)
It seems to me that you would enjoy writing a post about this subject :) Why not do it?
Oh yes, vacation. I imagined that when I'll get to be a freelancer, I'll get as many vacations as I want to, work whenever and from anywhere I want to. Apparently it's not that easy, right? :)
Yes, you work mostly alone. Unless you pick projects where you need to team up with others. Hm...
Is that a polite way of saying that my comments are too long? :P
Maybe I will. There're so many ideas, but little time for them all. :) I guess that's the moment when one should think of getting a vacation, right? :D
Not at all! You seem to have many things to say, and I would just be curious to read some posts about your freelancing experience :) Does that sound absurd? :D
Mmmmm vacation. Seems so far away. Because I don't live in my homecountry, almost all my vacations go there and back. And in most cases, I don't have the time and money to go for a second trip within the same year. But who knows, maybe Steemit will finally give me the opportunity to travel somewhere else than visit my family :)
No, it's not absurd, I was joking. :P I'll probably write stuff about that. Thanks for the interest. :)
Where do you live? I thought grass was greener on the other side, whatever side that is. :D
That'd be interesting :)
I'm originally from Romania. You're probably from there too right?
That I know. But where are you now? You don't need to say if you don't want to. :P Wait, dk... Denmark? :D
Yup, I'm romanian as well.
Yes, I live in Denmark now :) I miss those Romanian mountains though.