Quitting Your Job to Become a Freelancer
The day you’ve been dreading has finally come–your alarm goes off at 5:30 to get you up for work and instead of jumping out of bed to greet the day you groan and through a pillow over your head. You no longer look forward to getting out of bed at the crack of dawn, fighting hour long traffic and going into work just to be stuck in pointless meetings all day.
It’s true, you’ve hit a job rut. So, what do you do? If you’re like most people, you start looking through job websites for another full-time job. A year later, you’re back at the same place. Now you know just going from job to job isn’t satisfying you. What do you do? Perhaps it’s time to start freelancing.
It’s important to know that freelancing isn’t for everyone, but perhaps it’s for you. I wanted to start freelancing because I was tired of never getting to work on what I really wanted to. I was forced into doing design work, when all I wanted to do was code. It was time for a revolution.
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About the author
Amber Weinberg specializes in clean and semantic XHTML, CSS and WordPress development. She has over 10 years of coding experience and is pretty cool to work with. Amber is available for freelance work, so why not hire her for your next project?
Great article. Reads very nice and isn’t to long. I’m in the middle of going freelance or not or just change jobs. I’m still not sure what to do. The big thing is that I’m not really sure what to focus on. I think I wait a few months and think about what I will be working on.
How did you do the change of designing to coding? Were you already in the position that you were a good coder?
Hi Kaj,
Yes, I was already a coder before I went to school for design. I just ending up finding out that I enjoyed the HTML/CSS side of things versus the design/photoshop areas
That’s nice that you already know what your good at and can choose. But you still do some design work then?
Only for personal stuff, so nothing for clients.
Nice little post Amber.
I found that when I went freelance i ended up getting out of bed earlier not later and was working later than when I previously finished. Your right though the great thing about freelancing is being able to pick the work that you feel passionate about doing.