Like most freelancers opportunity to work from home seemed like a great opportunity to reduce my travel time from 45 to 1 minute giving myself more time for other things. Making the jump from a full time employment scenario of a busy, noisy working office with constant interruptions and distractions to a quiet serene productive environment might seem rosy but is working from home all it is cracked up to be? Throughout this article I explore my own experiences since delving into full time freelancing. Read more >
This isn’t the definitive guide, or applicable to everyone. Depending on what you do and how your business runs, you may learn new or unforeseen lessons that I have come across. However, if there is one thing I’ve learnt, it is that you can always take lessons from someone else’s experience. I have listed below a few points that you might be familiar with.
I have been freelancing for a couple of years now. I started off as many people do working a 9 – 5 day job. I started taking on freelancing jobs in the evening to try and gain some extra cash, experience and to start to build what hopefully would lead to a full time career. After a few years in a role that wasn’t getting me very far and a team leader that had no clue about how to lead a team, I decided to make the jump into a full time freelance career as a web designer and developer.
