What is Freelancing?

A temporary or contract base job someone does for any company or individual on the base of predefined terms and conditions is called Freelancing. Freelancing jobs are extremely task-oriented; means a freelancer will be hired to perform a specific task within the given timeline and budget. As a freelancer, you are a temporary worker rather than a permanent employee.  Usually, these types of jobs are for a short time only.

 

The term ‘Freelancing’ is very popular nowadays and everyone is aware of form it. People are switching their jobs to freelancing. Because in freelancing you can earn many times more money than a permanent employee. Thousands of people are doing freelancing with their permanent job as well.

 

Freelancing is almost purely happening over the internet and requires nothing except your portfolio/expertise in any field. It’s just a sort of making money online. Your education, location, cast, timing doesn’t matter. You can eat, sleep and wake up whenever you want, you can spend lots of time with your friend and family, you can travel and does everything which is completely next to impossible with the permanent employment.

 

If you are extraordinary in your field, trust me this is your time to make your life, it doesn’t matter in what position you are right now and how big are small is your employer, just get rid of it and start converting your dreams into reality. Even if you can’t take the risk to kick off your job at the moment, it's ok and you can even start this with your current job as well. Just need to manage a few hours daily, but must give it a try.

 

According to a survey, the number of freelancers in America was 3.7 million in 2014 and increased to 57.6 million in 2018. You can see the huge conversion and this is because of its flexibility in timing, money, and freedom. During the COVID-19 the freelancer jobs were 100% secure as compared to full-time employees because freelancers don’t have to wake up early in the morning for the sake of office and don’t need to spend time in the traffic to reach the office. They are doing everything whenever and from wherever they want. They enjoy their social life and spend only a few hours whenever it is possible for them.

 

How to start your career as a freelancer?

As I mentioned earlier freelancer doesn’t need any prerequisite to dive into it. If you are good in any field you can start your dream job. Either you are a good writer, developer, designer, income tax and finance specialist or you are a good QA engineer, data analyst, recruiter or anything else you can start it. You can write an article, make a logo/brusher, help companies to recruit the right person to look into someone’s application as a QA engineer, etc. 

 

There are hundreds of platforms available online to start the freelancing, some of these are as under:

      I.         Upwork

    II.         99designs

   III.         PeoplePerHour

   IV.         Freelancer.com

    V.         Guru

   VI.         LinkedIn Profinder

 VII.         Fiverr, etc.

 

The nature of all the above sites are almost the same. You just need an account on the freelancing website and make your portfolio. Basically, you are making yourself available to perform some tasks according to your skills. The companies who are looking for freelancers are registering themselves on the same websites too. Actually, you, the seller (sell your services) and the companies, the buyer (buy your services) are on the same page. Companies post their job with their requirements for which if you think you can do within the given timeline and budget, apply. The companies will contact you if your portfolio satisfies them for the given job.

 

How I will get paid?

You need to have a bank account and the freelancer companies will charge the amount from the service buyer companies, will get their service commission and submit the remaining into your Bank account. The service charge of the freelancers websites are not too high. Don’t worry about it. You can start your freelancing job with the companies located in China, Germany, London and anywhere else in the world.

 

If you need help regarding Freelancing or want to add something in this article, please feel free to drop a line for me in the comment box. I’ll be happy to hear from you.

 

All the best and Happy Freelancing!