smadamij
Member
Hi Guys,
Well it's that end of term time when every single design student contacts companies and freelancers looking for work placements.
After I reply with the 'I'm a freelancer, I can't really offer you work at my house' they often come back with 'So how do you become a freelancer'. I normally explain that it's not often the first step in a career path, more of a choice at a certain time but what do you think? Should someone go freelance straight out of University? Is todays economic climate driving more and more people to freelance due to the lack of full-time jobs?
Hope I popped this in the right forum mods, and also you don't mind that I link to a wee blog post I did on this the other day.
Would be interested to hear how freelancers end up as such, as its so bloody insular you never know half the time how we all did it?
Cheers
Jim
http://www.graphicd3signers.com/rise-of-the-freelance-designer/
Well it's that end of term time when every single design student contacts companies and freelancers looking for work placements.
After I reply with the 'I'm a freelancer, I can't really offer you work at my house' they often come back with 'So how do you become a freelancer'. I normally explain that it's not often the first step in a career path, more of a choice at a certain time but what do you think? Should someone go freelance straight out of University? Is todays economic climate driving more and more people to freelance due to the lack of full-time jobs?
Hope I popped this in the right forum mods, and also you don't mind that I link to a wee blog post I did on this the other day.
Would be interested to hear how freelancers end up as such, as its so bloody insular you never know half the time how we all did it?
Cheers
Jim
http://www.graphicd3signers.com/rise-of-the-freelance-designer/