The Three Brilliant Benefits of Freelancing

Freelancing can be an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling career path. Taking your talents and utilising them on an individual basis can be a daunting prospect, as the freelancer must secure their own new business, negotiate rate of pay and deliver to deadline. This can be a tremendous challenge - but also filled with advantages permanent staff envy...


Be Your Own Boss

Freelancing promotes you company director from the get-go. You ARE the company. You can live and breathe each project, burgeoning your portfolio with a list of trusted clients that enhance your reputation. All the work, all the rewards. Outsource your work across the world. Set your own rates of payment, file your own invoices and relish each paycheck. The buck stops with you.

Flexible Working Hours

Some creatives do their best work in the middle of the night, and can't bear early starts or late finishes. Some have a young family which requires their near-constant attention - who wants to miss their child's early years stuck in the office? Need to go pick up your kids from school, or prefer to work in the tranquility of your own home, with fridge and garden on-hand? When booking a holiday or dentist's appointment, you don't have to compete with your colleagues for time off, nor disgruntle your boss with untimely requests.

Never a Work Shortage

In the tempestuous economic climate post-recession, more and more companies have taken greater care over their hires; making more considered choices on stricter, reduced budgets. Often, companies will have need to fulfil a project but cannot afford to take on permanent staff to complete the work.

Step in, Creative Freelancer. Your short-notice availability for a day's, week's or month's work instantly endears you to a tightly-budgeted hiring manager and your glowing portfolio makes you a very attractive candidate in your own right. Your flexibility and desire to work to contract is the ultimate model for many creative industries, especially outside of London.



So, dear readers, be bold, be brave, freelance! Market your talents and enjoy the benefits of contract work with creativesrus.com, the UK's leading freelance database!