Following on from the Downside of Freelancing post, for every downside there is an upside, the flipside of the coin As you would expect the upside of freelancing out weighs the negative aspects, or you would hope so.
That said sometimes the benefits that I’ve outlining below will appear to be mostly on the positive side, but not to put a negative spin on them, some can have a few little traps if you don’t watch out for them.
This can put a dampener on your freelancing lifestyle. But as with anything this does depend on your personality and expectations.
Over the years I have been freelancing in the web industry it has been peppered with it’s good and bad times, when you look back on these times you can see a distinct pattern of things that are good and bad aspects of the freelance lifestyle. Okay this is not going to have every solution to freelancing, but at least you get another view point and a few ideas. Now I’m not discouraging people from taking up freelancing, far from it. It]s just a very good idea if you are considering getting into freelancing that you understand the full implications of what you are taking on. This is the first of a two part article.
We all know about open source software. The seemingly endless libraries of code and applications ready to use and implement into a business environment. Now colleague Myles Eftos has been discussing the use of open source applications and there implementations of late. This debate is an old as the hills, but still from time to time it’s good to pull it out of the draw, dust it off and start the discussion off again.
Originating, in a previous life, from a development background I can understand where Myles is coming from and his passion for not having to club together and open source modified solution. However consider:
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Some people can suffer distractions more than others, where as others can be total immune from the usual distractions.
Ever had a morning where you seem to be not getting any thing done. You check email, forums, feeds and twitter (the Loop). The phone rings, then you answer some new email. IM fires up, you deal with that. The doorbell rings a courier turns up and the distractions just go on and on. Sure you are scheduling tasks, and getting on with the short ones, but still it feels like you are spinning your wheels. You seem to have all your task management working just fine. So what is the problem? Maybe its all the minor distractions just getting to you.
