advantages and Disadvantages of freelance work.

Advantages of freelance work

Flexibility of hours: working from home or a remote workplace, such as a studio as a freelancer allows you to dictate your hours that you work that are the most convenient for you.  

Work load control: as a freelance worker you can control your own workload. Sometimes client demands can sometimes dictate your own schedule you can turn away work at busy or inconvenient times.

Quality of work: working as a freelance worker can be more personally fulfilling than other types of work. A freelancer would be able to get more challenging things to do.

National exposure: If a freelancer gets a good name for themselves, they can end up becoming known worldwide.

New skills: as a freelancer, you can learn more skills that you can gain from working on large projects.

Disadvantages of freelance work

Lack of work: If you work in freelance you will end ip encountering times where you can’t find work.

Lack of benefits: as an independent contractor, you do not receive employer provided benefits such as paid holiday

Isolation: working at home can be isolating. As a freelancer, you have no interaction with management or other employees as you may get huge workloads that have to be completed in a short amount of time. However social networking such as Facebook can only relieve this so much.

Variable income: after working for a client for a period of time you won’t get played automatically. You will have to create an invoice for the work which includes hours you have worked each day and the days you have worked for.  However you may have to wait 1 to 3 months until you get paid.

Round the clock coverage: clients will expect a 24/7 service. This means that you will have to e available at any given moment, which can include clients who live in different time zones