¡aseMUS! – Traveling, Financing & Working

While freelancing is by no means perfect, it can offer a career unparalleled in the non-freelancing workforce. Within reason you can decide the hours you work, you are very nearly your own boss and can easily body-swerve any office politics. There is, however, one very important factor in successful freelancing: you must be able to sell yourself and what you do and you must be able to network your pants off.

Freelancing can be on a short or long term basis. Some industries, most commonly the IT industry, tend to refer to this type of arrangement as ‘contracting’. Skilled technicians are employed for a set period to obtain a specific goal. From an employer’s point of view it works well: no sick pay, no holiday pay and no skills training to fork out for.

So there’s downsides to this new, free lifestyle of yours. But it’s not all downsides. Just remember the freedom available.

You’ll find it much easier to make money when you learn to sell yourself. It’s a learning curve but your ability to sell yourself is so crucial because it shows the potential employer that you really have what it takes to be a good writer.