Freelance to Fulltime: 9 to 5, steady pay checks, & lots of jobs you can’t say no to
A lot of people like to write about leaving their job to go freelance. Writers are leaving the desk jobs to become freelance bloggers. Designers have done it for a while now; shuffling off the coils and chains of regular work so as to allow their design fancies room to fly. Photographers, singers, producers of entertainment and media, the list goes on and on.
These people derive a self-imbued higher status than their clock punching peers because they live on the hairy edge. They’re out in the trenches making it by their wits alone. Well, bully for them. If you can do it, bravo for you.
I hate it.
Nobody takes out Social Security taxes for you. Or FICA. Or State (if you happen to live in a state that charges rent). You have to deal with the clients that don’t pay their bills. You are the one negotiating the fee for your work, and you are the one responsible for it’s failure. Success will likely go to the man or woman who had the insight to pay you.
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