What the world didn’t tell you about freelancing
I’m on my third day in training to become a virtual assistant. In my part of the world, working remotely is still in its infancy. It’s relatively new to the point that even our IRS guys don’t know exactly how to tax people like me properly.
I was approached by my best buddy Von about working remotely some five years back but then I was just too busy surviving the corporate world and eking out a living. I could not even fathom being jobless for even a month.
Fast forward to today, I was stuck in my apartment for three months without work and living on my tiny emergency fund with my girl. Good thing she still had her job while I sent out those countless applications online. I was at my wits’ end before this job came along. It couldn’t come at a better time.
Was I afraid? Heck yeah I am! I experienced so many eye-openers in the past weeks than the last five years. I gambled almost everything and now I’m down to my last cards.
Freelancing and working remotely has its perks and advantages but the trueh of the matter is, while everyone goes on to die a corporate death for the security of a paycheck there are those few who risk it all and work for themselves.
Jeff Bezos was once quoted saying that the most dangerous thing is to not evolve. I’m taking your challenge Jeff. This is just the first part of my evolution.
