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Do freelancing. Earn more, get more greedy, count "time off" as lost income. Repeat.
It's up to you. You have to freedom to take a break between contracts. You can also take time off whenever the client allows it, because you cost nothing while you're away.
If you are doing freelancing and not reaping the financial benefit then go back to a normal job. Increased income is the key to all those other perks. -
The freelance fallacy is this: thinking you will have made it in the first year.
It actually takes at least 4 years to have a reasonable balance and have some financial buffer in the event contracts are over.
As a freelancer for almost 8 years, it will get better. Be patient, work, pay your taxes and social security, save and in a few years all will be a lot better.
Also don't bottom out in rate,ask what you would pay yourself for your quality of work. -
@devdiddydog I swear `count "time off" as lost income` hit home the hardest.
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I feel like maybe you're travelling in online circles that may glorify the entrepreneurial spirit a bit too much? I say this because, since I've only worked for startups in the tech space, I'm adjacent to them, and yeah...
In all those circles, anyone who is not operating fully independently is basically a dipshit broke prole peasant and an idiot, OR they're a mindless drone towing the company line and are inherently evil for doing so, and this leads a lot of folk to abandon otherwise good lives in pursuit of the immense wealth that supposedly inevitably comes with going your own way
They said do freelancing, you can work from wherever you want. But, I haven't left my house even once in last 7 months.
They said do freelancing, you get to take off days whenever you want. But, I haven't taken even a single day off, after starting freelancing.
They said do freelancing, you will have better work-life balance. But I feel like, I just code and go to the gym and sometimes make YouTube videos.
They said do freelancing, it's better security-wise. But, every month I'm fucking petrified thinking if I even will survive and pay my bills next month.
They said do freelancing, you can work and travel at the same time. But, I've been married 7 months now and haven't taken my wife to honeymoon trip yet.
Am I doing freelancing wrong?
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