We’ve all read countless articles on the reasons you should consider freelancing. They often make it out like anyone still working in the corporate
world is just a schmuck with no ambition. But the truth is, there are plenty of reasons not to start freelancing.
Below are twenty such reasons, all laid out so you can make an
informed decision about whether freelancing is really something you want
to do in your career.
There’s nothing wrong with staying in a corporate job, just as
there’s nothing wrong with setting out on your own. But it’s a choice
every designer and developer needs to make for themselves.
One note: when we talk about “corporate jobs”, we’re talking mostly
about design firms with multiple employees (whether they’re corporations
or not), but most of it also applies to in-house design teams at large
companies.
1. You Think It Will Be Easier Than a Corporate Job
A lot of people considering freelancing think it will be easier than
their current corporate job. After all, they’ll only have to take on
projects they want to take on, they won’t have a boss or coworkers to
deal with, and they’ll be able to set their own hours.
But most freelancers, when the first start out at least, aren’t able
to be too picky about the work they take on. And while they don’t have
coworkers or a boss to deal with, that means they also don’t have
anyone to turn to if they get stuck on a project.
There are still clients to deal with, too. And the whole thing about
setting your own hours pretty much just means you can choose which
sixteen hours in the day you want to work when you’re getting started.
