Myth of Freelancing | Opinion

Freelancing is very easy, and you can be your own boss. You can do whatever, whenever, and wherever.

You may have heard these lines very often. In my opinion however, these are flawed lines and are used only to develop interest and have nothing to do with freelancing in reality.

Almost all experienced freelancers would suggest you : stick to only one skill set. So that you can focus on your expertise and provide greater value.

But I will somehow disagree with them because what they are saying may be quite right, but only for their own level. They rarely understand or speak on beginner’s level.

The level that they are at, has much freelance work, and has a team of their own. So, they are not facing the same problems as the beginners.

As a matter of fact, there are many complexities as you start your journey at freelancing as a beginner.

Not only you need to be patient, which is said by almost everybody, but also you need to have enough time, enthusiasm and sometimes little investment.

If you are aspiring to begin as a single person and without any investment, you have to do it all yourself.

 Let’s say you are starting as content writer. It will not be sufficient for you to have command over content writing. Rather you have to be a good graphic designer for designing captivating posters for your marketing.

And sometimes you have to make videos for promoting yourself.

Similarly, a graphic designer needs to have command over English and business communication for success.

So, success at freelancing is not a joke. All the luxuries of freelancing are a second thing.

One needs to be well prepared.

If I can sum up my whole opinion in few words, I would say, for a successful freelancer, you would need to be “ A jack of ALL trades, and a master of ONE.”