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I would like to know the following:  1. One/two liner about what exactly you do.  2. How long have you been working as a freelancer.  3. Are you happy with the work ?  4. How's work/life balance li...

I would like to know the following:

1. One/two liner about what exactly you do.

2. How long have you been working as a freelancer.

3. Are you happy with the work ?

4. How's work/life balance like ?

5. What's your average monthly income ?

6. Why did you choose freelancing over a regular full time job ?

7. Pros/Cons of being a freelancer.

8. How do you get your work, do you reach out to people or do they reach you ?

9. Is it a sustainable lifestyle ?

8. Any interesting story ?

If you are a freelancer, tell us about your work

If you are a freelancer, tell us about your work- Grapevine

29M , 7 yoe. Have a full time job plus running my own freelancing gig servicing multiple clients across the world

Not a techie. Earning 1.75cr a year AMA

Consultant

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Anyone who does freelance/part time work other than your regular job? Anything like copywriting or content writing etc, How did you get the opportunity? How did you build a profile?

Freelance or Part time work

Product Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hi, Would love to know if anyone is doing freelancing full time or part time. Like how you folks started? How do you find clients regularly? Do you have indian clients or from US or Europe? Love to know more about this as I want to get started in the freelancing world.

Freelancing Advice

Software Engineer

I know that at my firm you cannot freelance for your competitor. But not sure if it's allowed for others. Should I ask the HR/Mgr or do it silently on the sides? 

I'm pretty bored doing the same stuff. So thinking of doing some freelancing.

Also, I have never freelanced before. How do I find who wants to hire a freelancer? Are there specific points I should know about that will help in my search?

Google is full of generic s@#t advice. So asking here.

Do u share at your company that you do freelanceling?

Digital Marketing Manager

Anyone here doing freelancing along with 9 to 5 jobs to earn extra bucks? Any tips on starting up? How much do you make? Is it worth it? Do you use company laptop? 

1.5+ years in day to day job here. Looking to learn new things by building and what better than getting paid for it. Debunk my myths if any.

Anyone doing freelancing along with job

Anyone who is doing freelancing rn, how did you start with it?
How do a working professional get started with it as a way to learn more skills?
What all freelancing work have you done?

How did you start with freelancing?

Hey folks, wanted to understand a couple of things from experienced folks here -

1. What does freelance consulting look like?
2. How to start working in freelance consulting(shadowing/independent projects for free/volunteering etc.)?
3. Are there any hard barriers to entry(YoE, MBA, T1 grad for example)?
4. What platforms should one use to obtain projects that pay decently well - 2-3 hours daily leading to ~30k earnings monthly? If this is an unrealistic expectation, how does the payscale build over time?
5. Any other insights/comments that would affect the decision to work on freelance consulting.

Thanks in advance!

Path to working freelance(consulting) sustainably

Analyst

Hi everyone ,
I want to know if there are any freelancers out there or have knowledge of it ? I want to start freelancing and made an account on fiverr and upwork but I don’t know to start initially. Also, would leaving the job in the long run be fruitful for the sake feelancing as I see a lot of people make a lot more than corporate job. And last but not the least , I see a lot of people struggling to get money out of clients.

Advice about Freelancing

What all should I know before getting into this?
Someone has approached me for part time work for them.

- should I and the person sign a contract? If yes, who prepares the contract and what should be it's contents?
- should any specific clauses be defined?
- should I take up upfront fees?
- how to handle them validating work is done or not?
- should I not keep it hourly? Should I define the fees based on the work done?

Contractual work / Freelancer- Questions

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I know it sounds very funny as it's almost nothing, but considering my background, this is huge for me after just turning 23 and started working 4 months ago at 7k pm. I got 92k just in last 7days. I was in heavy depression for few years, had no plans for future even few months ago.


My target was 1L at the end of 2023, got it after 3 days. Mostly I am putting all in MF now. I don't need emergency funds as of now, my parents have planned for those. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I need to upgrade to a mid level laptop asap. So it'll be big investment. An investment that I hope will give me massive return.

Next realistic target 7-8L at end of 2024. Let's see if I can get there or not.

Reached 1.5L Networth

Software Developer

Any advice on how to navigate the freelance/gig worker market? 

Also - would love advice on how do I start?

Considering Freelancing

Community Manager

how many if you are doing a full time job along with freelance gigs 
how do you manage to take out time for freelancing

Job + freelancing

Have you worked/working on something that earns you additional income over your salary?

What do you do? Why do you do it? How was the journey? Do you enjoy it? Is your work aware of it? How much do earn from it?


I will start with myself.
I worked on reverse engineered camera for Android devices, for 2 years, I did it because there was no camera for my phone with custom rom that used all the features of the hardware at the time I started the project,
It started with an insult on a noob question XDA. At the end of two years it had downloads over 10K. It got famous in related communities. I even got a phone from the OEM for further development. Made a lot of friends Indian as well as international.
It was fun for an year. After 2 years it become a game of cat and mouse. The manufacturer took steps to make my efforts to unlock features on older devices difficult. I lost motivation. Felt a lot like unpaid labour. Got tired about bug reports.
My bosses were aware of it.
Earned around 1.5L from donations and ad revenue.

Now I am trying indie game development.

Any side income earners here?

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

After completing my BTech. I joined TCS for 2LPA. 
My RMG(read: The most hated folks at TCS) came up with the stupidest project and forced me to join it. She brutally harassed me for 3 days straight to take that project and I kept denying. I cleared interviews for two projects and then she still didn't let me take those projects.

She then had the audacity to stop project allocation for me leaving me on bench.

Now here is the real kicker... She starts sending me threatening email. Like your pay will be stopped indefinitely if I don't report to the project that belongs in 1989(joke). It was literally based on some archaic mainframe related tech and it was just some support job.
 
Thankfully my father was very supportive and he told me to start my own business. He gave me 9L to start something. After 6 years of gruelling hardwork and ups and downs now, I run my own IT services company. I have 100+ people on my payroll and we did 17% in EBITDA last year. NP was 6%. 

I made this post because I read this news article today. I will tell you that the audacity of TCS to say all of this is mindboggling. DO NOT JOIN TCS AT ALL. It is a place where careers go to die.

My journey from TCS to running my own IT company with 20Cr annual turnover.

Investor

Any thoughts on career transition from full time at big companies to freelancer? 

I have 5.7 years of exp of FSE. and would like to settle as freelancer in near future. 
I want to experiment this option for 1 year and if not succeeded is it okay to switch back to full time emp? Is it worth taking the risk considering my financial status? 

I see these are pros and cons
Pros:
Complete wfh.
Direct contact with clients no boss/manager

Cons:
Income will be effected if no project. 
Continuous search for projects. 
Risky. 

Any other pros and cons one can think of pls mention in the comments. I would definitely try this option for atleast one year.

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