The Fear of Freelancing: Why You Could Be Hurting Yourself
Several months ago, I wrote up a six month plan to become a freelancer. Even though I thought that this plan was pretty rock solid I still got several commenters who mentioned they wouldn’t start freelancing.
Why? Not because they loved their 9-5 jobs or because they thought the idea of running their own business was a bad one–but because they were scared. Several people asked the same questions over and over:
- “How much savings did you have?”
- “How did you pay your bills?”
- “Weren’t you scared to leave your guaranteed paycheck?”
Thousands of people who have the potential to make it on their own don’t and they don’t for one reason–fear.
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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?