Freelance Tips: Should You Quit Your Job?

There comes a time in everyone's life when they think that their job sucks, and that they really cannot spend even another day in their job.  During these times, they look at the various options they have, so that they can try their luck at them - one of them being freelancing, or working from home.  If you are at a situation in your professional life where you are being offered a plump work at home opportunity, you should definitely keep these aspects in mind. 

Be a Good Ten Years into a Profession to Quit: 

There is something known as quitting a job when you are the peak, and if you have spent a good ten years into your profession, or your job, you would be ready to get onto the next step, that is going solo. With ten years of experience, you are at a very good position to quit your day job and get begin your freelance or consulting career.

Don't Quit Before 2 Years:

Two years is just the minimum time that you would have to spend in a business and profession to understand the intricacies and what it all about. Also, if you are trying to work from home or even start a small business in the same profession, you would require a bulky portfolio, which would take at least five years to make. 

How Many Bridges Have You Burnt?

It's ok. We all have had jobs where we would never want to go back and bosses whom we secretly fantasise of when we see a horror/slasher movie. But we also have to understand that we will always need a back up plan, if something goes haywire in our current scenario. Therefore, consider how many doorways to safety you have, if your freelancing opportunity does not work. If the situation looks glum, you should stay put in your job for a while more. 

Are you getting Burnt Out in a Dead End Job?

There are several cases where you have taken up a job because your financial condition was bad, but the job did nothing to either use your talents, nor did it give you a chance to enhance your professional skills. Whenever you find yourself in such a  situation, make sure that you get out of whatever muck you are and get a real job immediately. 

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Work at Home Ideas: Record Keeping Jobs

Apart from the famous work at home option of writing, coding, graphics, and web designing, there are some more work at home ideas that can keep a person afloat. Of course, the money from these activities do not make you a millionaire overnight, but you can at least get some financial support from them until you settle down on the work at home idea that fits your expertise, talents and qualifications. One such idea is the profile of Record Keeping. 

What is Record Keeping?: 

As the name suggests, a Record Keeper would basically keep the records of a company, institution, organization or even a individual. The records may pertain to almost anything that the company wishes, like financial transactions, company facts and critical and non critical data about the company, etc.  The Record Keeper is liable to keep the records in a safe and easily reachable location for a set amount of time. Also, the Record Keeper may be liable to destroy the records after a set period of time, if that is required by the company, organization or the individual.

What do you require to be a Record Keeper?

Well, that would basically depend on what kind of record keeping your clients are looking for. If they are looking for offline record keeping, you would want a place to store all the documents. If the client wishes for a online record keeping service, you would need to invest in a web space, which can be accessed only you or the organization. This would require you to have some kind of basic web designing and web programming skills. Sometimes, the client would require both, offline as well as online record keeping options. Make sure that you have the necessary expertise to handle this kind of job.

Do you require any hardware to take on a Record Keeping Job?

Because of the critical nature of record keeping, the documents have to be in a secure format and at a secure location. Mostly, if the document has been prepared in a word processing software, chances are that you might have to convert the documents into a PDF format. You can prepare a PDF document using a free PDF document converter. Also, if you have the documents in hard copy format, you might need a good scanner to scan the documents onto your computer and then convert the document into PDF format.

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