Three Golden Tips for Freelancing

With the advent of the Internet and increase in communication, freelancing has become one of the most lucrative professions today. There are so many people who have given up their jobs and are working from the comfy confines of their home. But it is not an easy. Here are the Three Golden Tips that you should keep in mind while freelancing.

1) Manage Your Time: The best part of freelancing is that you can work whenever you wish, the worst part of freelancing is that you can work whenever you want. You should be very careful if you are working form home, simply because you might end up sitting at home and playing games while you are actually meant to work. Remember, if you are freelancing, you have no supervisor or peer to egg you on, and you will know the wasted time only at the end of the month - when you cannot pay the bills because you didn't work at all!

2) Know Your Limits: The problem with freelancing is that a person tends to think that they can do anything and everything. If you are in a company, your skillsets are already decided upon and your work responsibilities are given to you within the first week. When you are freelancing, the biggest problem is that you are the only person who decides whether you can do a particular job, and by the time you find out that you cannot do it, it's too late. Therefore, make it a point to understand your abilities and make the best out of them. Of course, this does not mean that you should not experiment. But any experiment that does not sit good in the realms of practicality and logic may not end as well as you would want them to.

3) Have Fun: The basic reason that you stopped a day job is because your life was getting wrecked. Freelancing is good money, but if you continue to be as workaholic as you were during the job, you are not exactly getting all the benefits of being a freelancer. So, whenever you can, take some time off... go with the folks for a picnic in the middle of the week, catch a chick flick or a romcom or a action adventure in the middle of the day - Understand Your Freedom.