This post was written by Alexander Glagolev, who shared a very interesting view on "freelancing". Naturally, your opinion will be very interesting to us, even if you completely disagree with the author.
This phenomenon is becoming more and more popular. Many articles, essays, stories, life hacks and other "creations" have been written about freelancing. I want to share with you my "invaluable experience" of freelancing in the IT field. I will try to be as objective as possible. As a spoiler, I will say that if you want to consistently earn a lot of money, if you are a young and ambitious specialist, if you have never worked for an uncle, then you will not succeed. Freelancing is just not for you. Or not for you yet. Freelancing will help ruin all your professional inclinations, and turn you into a red-eyed zombie whose qualifications do not even reach the qualifications of an average office worker.
Everything in life is arranged in such a way that everything that suits someone else is most likely not suitable for you. And that's right. And if someone has achieved success by doing something in some way only known to him, then most likely you will not succeed. But if someone has made mistakes, then you will most likely make them too. I will try to give a list of mistakes that I made. If you ever decide to get on the slippery slope of freelancing, be sure to repeat them. Then you will remember this note and realize that you are not alone.
This is the most terrible, the most terrible mistake that you can imagine. Its price is very high. Just remember that. If you look at the task and realize that you don't know how to do it, never take up the project. Even if you have even run out of ice in the refrigerator. Don't take such a project.
Only plankton works in the office, I'm cooler and smarter. Shit! Even if you are a child prodigy, there is still a probability (approximately 99.(9)%) that there is a person in the office who is more experienced than you in any professional matter. It's worth learning from them. Plus you will need to get up 5 days a week at a certain time. And this is discipline.
If you somehow inexplicably did not make the first two mistakes, but went through these tests with dignity, you will have customers. They will appreciate and love you. They will pay money. And you will need more and more. Therefore, you will work more. The result is 3 hours a day for sleep, a sore back, red eyes, even mental disorders are possible. And for what? For the sake of money that will then go to treatment? Do you need it?
This is also a step into the abyss. It so happens that you can earn good money simply by making high-quality projects of medium complexity. Don't even look at the manual. In a year or two, no one will need you, new technologies will pass you by, as indeed the whole of life. With the current training opportunities, it's just a sin not to use them. The Internet is not just for porn and cats. Know this.
The rest, as for me, is insignificant. Lectures on working time planning, pricing, order search and what paper to write on will be left for business coaches. You just need to understand that freelancing is hard work (often much more difficult and responsible than in the office), and that no one can work normally in Goa. It is suitable only for people of a certain character who can afford to live for a month or two without earnings. Therefore, think twice before leaving the cozy office with free coffee and salary on the first day.
But! If you can adjust yourself to a certain way, if you have willpower, self—organization and discipline, then you will feel great. That's what I wish you!
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