The benefits of freelancing.

Mi3 Digital Agency
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

By Vanessa Porras

Companies should fear employees dissatisfaction. Having to work up to 40 hours a week, feeling chained to a sit, following the same kind of work routine day after day, daydreaming to be out there enjoying the sunlight, with no chance of exploring and interacting with whatever is seen throughtout the window, can only lead to depression. Depression can lead to lack of creativity and, what is a programmer or a designer without creativity?

I decided to stop working like this. It was time to change paths and test the freelancer life. Hopefully, it turned out to be greater than I thought.

Here is why:

  1. You manage your own working hours. Nothing is better than deciding at what time to wake up and go to sleep, how many hours a day you dedicate to your job, how many breaks a day you can take and how long they can be.
  2. You can forget about stress. When you are the one dealing with the client, explaining your processes and having a good interaction. What can go wrong? You are in charge of the process and the outcome.
  3. Work will come out as great as possible, which means you can’t and won’t do a bad job because it’s your reputation that is at risk. Also, when working conditions are great, the result of your work will be great.
  4. You decide your own income, since it’s you who is going to put a price to your work.
  5. You can give your clients the attention they deserve. Programmers and designers not always get to interact directly with the clients, which sometimes makes the final product come out completely different to what the clients expected.

All these reasons end up shaping the way we work since freelancing help us improve. It is extremely important to our professional development. Why? Because as a freelancer, you are the one running your own business, you choose your process, the way you work and the way you treat your clients. You are growing and so is your business and your skills.

As a freelancer, when joining Toptal and its Web Programmers Group, I am committing myself to learn, to grow and to be responsible. I am opening myself to a vast and serious world of possibilities, becoming part of a group of professionals that were carefully picked throught a screening process, where only top people in their fields are hired. I want to be part of a network like this one, that only hires the best and the most exclusive professionals to offer the best result to their clients.

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