Third World Freelancer

Here is some good universal advice for freelancers anywhere across the globe. Make sure you follow Career Foundry for great freelancing tips... So you’re reading this because you want to become a freelancer. You’ve thought about what you want to freelance in, you’ve got a couple of useful email addresses and you’ve even bought yourself some sweatpants that will look great with your slippers. So you’re ready to dump that job and get cracking on your first assignment, right? Wrong. One of the biggest misconceptions about freelancing is that you sit at home and work comes to you. When the reality is you have to fight for it, and fight hard. As our friend Leif Kendall aptly put it: "First: you must strive. Nothing good is ever easy." I hate to break it to you, but working freelance means working. And I mean really working. Unlike your 9-5 cubicle, there is nothing cushy about freelancing, nothing stable about it until YOU have made it that way. But there are some simple s...

I know being an on-line freelancer from a low income nation is one of the hardest things after algebra. That's before I even get to the earning money part and to the earning to make-a living part. The atmosphere I tell you-that's if you don't know it yet, is unbearable, and almost dilapidated whatever that means. And please don't feel offended when I characterise your country as a '3rd World Country' (yes, I know we were all advanced in our own unique ways before imperialism and globalisation), just that the 'Global Human Development Indexes say we're ( I am from one of those countrys, and at least according to the media it's one of the worst nations when it comes to human rights and economic development, governance etc). If you have a passion for working on-line you probably have read everything to do with how to make money on-line and let me guess what you got out of it a bunch of sign ups on programs that you're not welcome to be part of ...