It’s been quite some time, since I’ve become a Freelancer, and made that my only source of income.
Thinking about it now, I would safely say, it’s not catered for everyone, and it takes an arm and a leg to be really successful at it, and it’s not only about gaining back your freedom, sometimes that doesn’t happen to start with.
Taking the decision
This might be the hardest part of the whole journey, so if you’re giving it a thought, you have to re-think twice before you make the final call.
You have to weigh in the pros and cons of leaving your current job, position, or whatever you’re doing to jump into this roller-coaster of an adventure, and let me help you here, it will be the most nerve wrecking experience you’ll ever have to go through in your life.
With that being said, you have to take into consideration other family members’ well being, if you’re married and have kids, especially if you’re the only provider for the household.
Although this might seem like an individual decision that will only affect your career for life, it is in fact a decision that will affect your dependents’ as much as yours, and the impact might be even deeper and harder if you have little kids yearning for you attention, and needing to spend more time around and with you.
They say time is money, I’d rather say time is life itself, if you miss the momentum of being an important part of your children’s life growing up, then IMO you’ve failed them and failed yourself in first place, and it would be too late when you realize it.
However, if you’re single then it will become much easier to go this route, test the waters, and see if it’s your cup of tea.
The worst case scenario, you’ll end up broke, depressed, may be indebted, and you will have to crawl back to your ex-employer and ask them if you’re still welcome to return back, if not, you’ll be sending dozens of CVs everywhere to start anew, and could find yourself at the bottom of the ladder once again.
The good news though, there won’t be a crying baby on your back who needs milk, and you don’t have to pluck your hair out to buy her diapers, nor will you have to worry about your wife’s grocery list of the week, pay your house rent and whatever comes alongside having dependents under your wings.
To conclude with this, if you’re still young, have no serious commitments, no formula or diapers to buy, then you most probably should make the plunge, and if it didn’t work, then reboot and restart on a 9 to 5 job, and you’ll know for sure it wasn’t for you.
To be continued…
