A normal job is 20 hours a week part time, 40 hours a week full time. That’s 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, not including a half hour to hour mid-day for a break.
A normal job offers benefits for retirement and savings (and we should all be well aware of how important that is given the current financial situation.)
A normal job offers insurance benefits, paid vacation benefits, and more importantly, a normal job offers reliable income. As long as you show up to work, you can expect a paycheck every week.
Freelancing is not a normal job .
There’s no way to file unemployment when you haven’t earned any income. There are few options for insurance benefits. Fortunately, the Freelancers Union is working hard to offer these “normal job” benefits to freelancers.
However, it goes without saying that being a freelancer means you work much longer, much harder, and for less pay than somebody who has a “normal job”.
So why is freelancing so popular?
The first portion of the word “freelancer” says it all… freedom. Freelancing means you can sleep in, you don’t have to deal with annoying bosses or coworkers, and you make your own rules. You make your own hours, and you are your own boss.
This kind of freedom is exhilarating, and even if it means you have to work twice as hard for half the income of a “normal job” worker, you will never hear a freelance worker complain about their job in the same way that a “normal job” worker will.
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