Be your own boss

If you want to be a freelancer so you can "be your own boss," you've come to the right blog. This is the blog where you find out that as a freelancer, you will not be your own boss. In fact, everyone else will be your boss!

A boss is someone who tells you what to do and pays you. If you were truly your own boss, you'd be paying yourself, but why would you do that? You'd be taking money out of your own pocket and putting it back in. Your money has to come from other people, people you do work for.

We freelancers call them clients. Client is just another word for a one-night-stand boss. If you perform well, you two might hook up again, but there's no commitment like in an employer-employee relationship. If you're afraid of commitment, maybe freelancing is for you.

My point is don't become a freelancer thinking that you'd get to work just one day a week and pay yourself a high salary, and give yourself big Christmas bonuses and paid vacations. You have to work for your clients, and you'd have to work harder than an employee doing the same type of work.