Freelancing: real income or myth

Many nowadays are increasingly trying to create their own business, giving up office work for their uncle. Today we will share with you the experience of our employees and tell you how to start making money on freelancing. And also we will draw a line between a freelancer and a coven.

Nuances of working as a freelancer

First, let's be clear. Freelancer – this is not a profession! You can’t just take and generalize all people by calling them freelancers. Everyone who works remotely has their own specialization. It is also impossible to name the amount that a freelancer earns – everyone has his own!

A person who takes assignments from students and completes them at home for a penny cannot be compared with a programmer who leaves the office and spends all day doing projects for customers.

There are certain facets of understanding: a person who does tests for students is a "shabashnik". He has his own job, for example, in graduate school, but he does part-time work. You can't call him a freelancer. It is also impossible to call a builder a freelancer who works for himself all his life.

Out of all this comes the basic principle – for a freelancer, the main income — this is a job for clients on the web. That is, he receives orders from people whom he may or may not know personally.

Is there a difference between freelancers?

There is a big difference between a designer and a programmer. Between layout designer and backend programmer. The same difference between the salaries of these specialists. It cannot be said that freelancing you can earn $2,000. Everyone has their own pay for work and it depends on knowledge, skills, experience. All this must be taken into account.

There is a big difference between an office worker and a freelancer. An employee of an office or enterprise can well afford to drink in the evening under the porch. But you will not find a freelancer there, because there is no time. This is where the difference lies. More likely to find a freelancer in the middle of the day in the gym than in the evening on the street.

Now you may have remembered a familiar designer or layout designer who constantly walks with you in the evenings until night. Let's not offend anyone now and somehow argue that this person is not a freelancer. We just can't afford it. First of all, because our clients – they are mostly businessmen, executives, etc. In general, all freelance customers – These are people who have a business. Accordingly, when do they have free time to resolve issues? Or earlier in the morning during the meeting, but most often it is evening – late evening. In addition, there is a difference between time zones when working with customers from abroad, and very often evening for us is morning for them.

From all this, we can conclude that the freelancer from our example either does not have orders, or is not a freelancer at all.

Although there is a nuance

When a person has been freelancing for more than 5 years, he begins to realize that there is a need for planning and free time. He is already beginning to understand that there must be such charms as free time and personal life. Scheduling begins with notifying customers that the call and the issues that the customer believes need to be done RIGHT NOW will have to be postponed to business hours.

Our freelancer is starting to plan his weekend for his tasks (although the main thing here is not to overdo it). But spending free time is still not under the porch with beer, because he knows perfectly well how much his time costs. And perhaps already learned the cost of health. It's not bad to spend so much time in front of the computer, overworking. Therefore, to the storytellers under the porch with stories about all sorts of earnings on the currency exchanges and so on, a big hello. We forget about them, they are not worth our time. I assure you, their earnings are equal to scholarships.

How to start earning freelancing?

So how do you get started freelancing? Let's agree, first of all excluding all kinds of deceptions and so on. Secondly, wherever you work – they pay only for knowledge and actions corresponding to this knowledge.

And here it becomes clear that it is necessary to obtain the appropriate knowledge. They are the main source of great income. People who have the knowledge are able to do high-paying jobs. This cocktail is equal to success.

But still there are those who just do the work: content managers, clickers. Anyone who is engaged in monotonous work can also earn. But, unfortunately, their destiny — it's crumbs. Although they must also have some knowledge. The same content manager must have knowledge of how to write SEO or sales texts, otherwise his work will not last long.

Let's get closer to the answer: is it possible to make money on freelancing

Internet – this community and its rules are no different from the outside world. Here everything is the same – If you are a cool specialist with experience, then you can quite make money on freelancing. There is no need to make a fairy-tale world out of the Internet, it is exactly with the same rules as the rest of the world. There is knowledge and skill - welcome!

Therefore, freelancing is not a myth. It just takes knowledge and practice. Also, the ability to sell yourself as a specialist will not hurt. After all, every time you receive an order, you seem to be having an interview.

Just like in the outside world, you can achieve gigantic incomes in freelancing. But this is already in giant projects.

Therefore, dear ones, if you are ready to adapt to freelancing for the first years. Ready for the loss of personal time, processing, and then to success. Then welcome to freelancing!