The Freelance Resource: The Importance of an Instant Messenger for a Freelancer

Some people hate freelancers, some people love freelancers. Some people hate freelancing and some people love freelancing. Of course, there are several reasons for each of the cases. One thing that we can be sure about is that business owner who hate freelancers and freelancing have a very good reason for hating the breed and creed - Incommunicado.

Let's face it, the traditional business worked, in fact thrived on the very fact that there were minions who would look down while walking and the ones who would own all the survey - the boss - walking past the cabins of these poor guys and girls just to affirm their power over them, and to tell to convince themselves that they had complete power over the employees. Sadly, with the debut of freelancing in even the most hallowed of corporate portals.

Which makes things difficult for us freelancers. In our times as a freelancer, we have met bosses and witnessed scenes that were straight out of some angst ridden movie and we had a starring role in the Old Vs New epic moment of the movie. But, like everything else in life - even this situation can be defused. And that too with a pretty simple tool - the Instant Messenger.

To put it lightly, the Instant messenger is one of the most important tools that a freelancer can ever have in their inventory. And true to its name, the Instant Messenger allows the person to receive messages instantly, from anyone in their contact list.

There are a lot many Instant Messengers today, and even Instant Messengers that club together all the Instant Messengers in one slick package - leaving you with no option but to have all your professional and personal contacts at your beck and call, or vice versa.

Well, whether you would like to add your freelance boss on your Messenger is entirely a different question.

Some messengers are: