Comments on: Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag: Is Freelancing Really For You? http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/ The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:04:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Freelancer’s Eternal Dilemma: Full Time or Part Time? | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-43594 A Freelancer’s Eternal Dilemma: Full Time or Part Time? | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch Thu, 13 May 2010 12:22:49 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-43594 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates | LearnersTutorials http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-42312 Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates | LearnersTutorials Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:29:22 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-42312 [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...] [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...]

]]> By: Get Your Clients To Stop Comparing Rates :: Freelance XHTML, CSS and WordPress Developer Amber Weinberg :: Nashville, TN http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-38677 Get Your Clients To Stop Comparing Rates :: Freelance XHTML, CSS and WordPress Developer Amber Weinberg :: Nashville, TN Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:06:55 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-38677 [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...] [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...]

]]> By: Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates | Red Button Reviews http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-38663 Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates | Red Button Reviews Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:41:05 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-38663 [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...] [...] Hourly versus set rates have been debated plenty of times before, but if you want to set yourself above other freelancers, you need to stop using hourly rates. This is important for several reasons: [...]

]]> By: Daniele http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-30017 Daniele Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:22:47 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-30017 I couldn't agree more, When I was still a single I have spent 5 years in Thailand working as freelancer for western clients, I could afford a great appartment with swimming pool, restaurant meals, air tickets, treckings and travels with ease. Things are very different now, back in the UK married and wid a children. From one side it is great to be father and can spend lot of time with your family but when it comes to managing your time/clients it can be really hard...I have to work late nights when the kid is sleeping in order to find the right concentration......if I try it during the day it will most probably end with my daugther watching cartoons or playing with my PC. I couldn’t agree more,

When I was still a single I have spent 5 years in Thailand working as freelancer for western clients, I could afford a great appartment with swimming pool, restaurant meals, air tickets, treckings and travels with ease.

Things are very different now, back in the UK married and wid a children. From one side it is great to be father and can spend lot of time with your family but when it comes to managing your time/clients it can be really hard…I have to work late nights when the kid is sleeping in order to find the right concentration……if I try it during the day it will most probably end with my daugther watching cartoons or playing with my PC.

]]> By: Is Freelance Writing For You? Part I | Writerista.com - blog of a freelance writer, mother and artist http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-29893 Is Freelance Writing For You? Part I | Writerista.com - blog of a freelance writer, mother and artist Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:03:12 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-29893 [...] Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag: Is Freelancing Really For You? is a really interesting article, that talks about what us freelancers (often) think about. Is this really for me? Will I really make a good living just by writing and live happily ever after? Will I bring home a paycheck every week by writing? Freelancing is rewarding, but it is not easy. I also dislike very much when people tell me how awesome working from home is. It can be nice. The niceness is not guaranteed. Just like earning a full-time income with freelance writing is not guaranteed. [...] [...] Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag: Is Freelancing Really For You? is a really interesting article, that talks about what us freelancers (often) think about. Is this really for me? Will I really make a good living just by writing and live happily ever after? Will I bring home a paycheck every week by writing? Freelancing is rewarding, but it is not easy. I also dislike very much when people tell me how awesome working from home is. It can be nice. The niceness is not guaranteed. Just like earning a full-time income with freelance writing is not guaranteed. [...]

]]> By: Adriel http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-29873 Adriel Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:20:52 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-29873 Great article, and nice to actually see some cons for once! Mental preparedness is definitely one of the keys to living the life as a freelancer. From early experiences as a freelance motion designer, mind games would always enter the foray. I had to learn right away that working hard and believing in myself was the only way to combat the many negative thoughts that crept into my head. I look back and for the most part all the effort I've put in has paid off in one way or another. This includes pro-bono work and all those hours of marketing that felt like time wasted. Despite the negatives and external perception of a freelancer, I wouldn't want it any other way. The experience is what you make of it. Great article, and nice to actually see some cons for once! Mental preparedness is definitely one of the keys to living the life as a freelancer. From early experiences as a freelance motion designer, mind games would always enter the foray. I had to learn right away that working hard and believing in myself was the only way to combat the many negative thoughts that crept into my head. I look back and for the most part all the effort I’ve put in has paid off in one way or another. This includes pro-bono work and all those hours of marketing that felt like time wasted.

Despite the negatives and external perception of a freelancer, I wouldn’t want it any other way. The experience is what you make of it.

]]> By: Wayne Key http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-29870 Wayne Key Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:47:22 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-29870 I am reminded of a quote from a famous writer, some of the stature or Hemingway or Steinbeck. The quote is: "If anything can keep you from writing, let it." As we all know its not an easy road, and you better be on Mission or it will eat you alive. Great post! Its an important reminder that those of us who do this should be very proud of it. Thanks I am reminded of a quote from a famous writer, some of the stature or Hemingway or Steinbeck. The quote is: “If anything can keep you from writing, let it.”

As we all know its not an easy road, and you better be on Mission or it will eat you alive.

Great post! Its an important reminder that those of us who do this should be very proud of it. Thanks

]]> By: Edaurdo Portillo http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-29855 Edaurdo Portillo Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:29:31 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-29855 I have been working from 8 to end in an office and as a freelance for many years, having an stable incomme and a plus via the freelancing is very safe and very stressful, as a graphic designer I need to be creative, but the imagination have no standard hours of work, we are more creative in the morning but going to work dealing with rush hour traffic kills you dose of imagination in the morning, you are already stressed when you reach your desk and most of the times ending doing someone elses ideas, thing you relly hate. And no doubt sitting in you home desk 9, 10 or 12 at night is not the best for creation, now I'm totally freelance, I can create right when I wake up, i'm always fresh to talk to clients, I can go shopping for grocery's at unconventional hours, last year was stressful to go shopping in my way home after work, and I can say that I feel more creative and effectibe now. In the other hand some times you hit bottom financially, and two days later you are making it big, earning more than you have planed, paying the cost of opportunity at a high rate. Some days you have nothing to do, and some times you have no idea how to squeeze more time in a day, and I must say that when you have so much to do you need backup, in my case other freelancers to push or pull a proyect with me and finish it. And the need of wear all the hats at the same time is difficult, marketing, accounting, negotiation, collecting payments, paying bills (God bless internet banking) and do the job at the same time took all your stamina and you think "Oh my God is just monday",you can say reading this "freelancing is hell" buy you know there is onething that make me do this every day with no regrets, at the end of the day I have done my vision, followed my rules, gave the best I can give, make my own choices, at the end of the day I am happy and proud of myself!! Do your best, Follow your dreams, Be free!! I have been working from 8 to end in an office and as a freelance for many years, having an stable incomme and a plus via the freelancing is very safe and very stressful, as a graphic designer I need to be creative, but the imagination have no standard hours of work, we are more creative in the morning but going to work dealing with rush hour traffic kills you dose of imagination in the morning, you are already stressed when you reach your desk and most of the times ending doing someone elses ideas, thing you relly hate. And no doubt sitting in you home desk 9, 10 or 12 at night is not the best for creation, now I’m totally freelance, I can create right when I wake up, i’m always fresh to talk to clients, I can go shopping for grocery’s at unconventional hours, last year was stressful to go shopping in my way home after work, and I can say that I feel more creative and effectibe now.

In the other hand some times you hit bottom financially, and two days later you are making it big, earning more than you have planed, paying the cost of opportunity at a high rate. Some days you have nothing to do, and some times you have no idea how to squeeze more time in a day, and I must say that when you have so much to do you need backup, in my case other freelancers to push or pull a proyect with me and finish it.

And the need of wear all the hats at the same time is difficult, marketing, accounting, negotiation, collecting payments, paying bills (God bless internet banking) and do the job at the same time took all your stamina and you think “Oh my God is just monday”,you can say reading this “freelancing is hell” buy you know there is onething that make me do this every day with no regrets, at the end of the day I have done my vision, followed my rules, gave the best I can give, make my own choices, at the end of the day I am happy and proud of myself!!

Do your best, Follow your dreams, Be free!!

]]> By: Joe Wallace http://freelancefolder.com/is-freelancing-really-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-29852 Joe Wallace Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:07:25 +0000 http://freelancefolder.com/?p=2796#comment-29852 What I'm most curious about is to see what happens to the freelance "tide" as the economy picks back up. We got flooded with out-of-work 9-to-5ers (or so it seemed) when the recession started making the unemployment numbers up--just my perception---but will the level of freelancers stay higher even after the economy climbs back to a respectable level? I have a funny feeling the answer is yes. What really intrigues--10 years ago the dot com bust ruined freelancing for many but this time around it was the opposite--the cubicle workers got the boot and the stay-at-homers seemed to prosper...ahh how times have changed. What I’m most curious about is to see what happens to the freelance “tide” as the economy picks back up. We got flooded with out-of-work 9-to-5ers (or so it seemed) when the recession started making the unemployment numbers up–just my perception—but will the level of freelancers stay higher even after the economy climbs back to a respectable level?

I have a funny feeling the answer is yes. What really intrigues–10 years ago the dot com bust ruined freelancing for many but this time around it was the opposite–the cubicle workers got the boot and the stay-at-homers seemed to prosper…ahh how times have changed.

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