I thought it would be interesting to make two posts in my blog this weekend, one regarding the perks of being a freelance web designer and one regarding the ‘unperks’ of being a freelance web designer…trust me there are both!
I’ll get the ball rolling on a positive note and share with you the perks that I’ve discovered so far.
1. You Choose Your Hours
If you aren’t doing any contract work and work from home you can basically choose which hours you are going to work. This sounds like a fairly basic perk but it has come in incredibly useful for me. Sometimes you can just pop in to town to pick up something, or make a quick visit to a client without having to worry about leaving work.
2. You Choose Where You Work
Wifi is available almost everywhere now, and what this means is that as long as the battery life on your laptop is half decent, you can work remotely from anywhere. It might be your favorite coffee shop, a nice quiet library or even the pub!
3. You Choose How to Work
There are no surprise deadlines when you are work as a freelance web designer because you set them yourself, and how you work is completely up to you. When you choose how you are going to work nobody else needs to be taken in to consideration; Hell you can even design that website in bed if you want to!
4. You Choose Your Clients
When you work on contract you get lumped with all sorts of work that you probably don’t want to do. Fortunately, if you get offered a job as a freelancer and see no real gains in doing the work, you don’t have to accept it, its a simple as that!
5. Freelancing is More Rewarding
Contract work doesn’t bring many huge moments of reward with it, but when you get out there yourself and bag a web design or SEO job there is a real buzz and your confidence will be booming…which leads me on to my final point
6. There is more money in Freelancing
Lets be honest with ourselves for a moment, we all work for money and freelancing cuts out the middle men you find in contract work. There is no greater feeling than payday when you’ve worked hard to build a website for a client.
I’ll get around to writing about the downsides of being a freelance web designer sometime this weekend.
