A Guide to Making Money as a Freelancer by Selling Your Hours for Dollars (HFD)

Pay attention to the drawbacks of this time-honored way to make a buck online

Ugur Akinci
Curated Newsletters
12 min readJul 13, 2020

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Photo courtesy of Paul Millerd

Who doesn’t like to make money? We all love it. It’s one of the true universals of human life on this planet earth. It’s a must for survival. But more than that, it’s also one way to keep score of what we accomplish in life.

Plus, for some, making money is therapy as well. I know a number of people who would’ve done great harm to themselves and others if they weren’t busy making money.

Since the early 90s, the Internet has been where fortunes are made and lost. Making Money Online (MMO) has been the new “Gold Rush” where everyone tries to discover their own California and stake out their own digital real estate. It’s an obsession that won’t go away anytime soon. The rush is still on.

Selling your Hours for Dollars (HFD) as a freelancer is a time-honored way to make a buck online. This is what probably a sizable percentage of talented people out there are doing either full-time or as a side gig.

There are more than 56 million freelancers in the United States alone, according to QZ.com. The U.S. workforce has reached 164 million in February 2020. So almost one-third of people working…

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Ugur Akinci
Curated Newsletters

Award-winning Fortune 100 writer. Father. Husband. Brother. Friend. Still learning.