54 million Americans worked as independent contractors in 2016 and the number has substantially increased ever since. By the year 2020, 43% of the U.S workforce will be freelancing. With the average price for a good online worker, especially a software developer touching $1k, many people are encouraged to learn the technical skills and offer their services as a freelancer on different freelancer marketplaces.
Freelancers in the U.S alone contribute 1.4 trillion to the economy every year and the worldwide stats could be well speculated based on these numbers only.
Freelancing is freedom, the very idea of being self-employed and work from home at your own pace is unparalleled. With the growing success of being empowered by working from home and raising your efficiency, many big companies in the world are also encouraging work from the home model as it has multi-facets to maximum productivity.
As a freelancer who has been self-employed for almost about two decades, I have observed many success and failure stories. I have seen freelancers failing and quitting who were well destined to reach the top and I have also seen Freelancers acing the game even though I tipped them off as a complete failure at the beginning of their career.
When I started observing the freelancing patron and behavior of freelancers closely, I realized, it is not only the skill that makes you go places.
Truth be told, skill is just one attribute, and of course, you have to be talented enough to be skillful to get a job done but freelancing is far beyond the skills-set to have, I mean — as far as tasting success is concerned.
On a cold winter night of 2010, I was having a conversation with one of my clients on Skype who wanted to talk to me in person and see how I converse.
His perception was, the people from Asia are usually poor people as they belong to third world countries, English is not their first language and he did not want to waste his money on hiring someone who would find it extremely hard to apprehend the project requirements and get the job done.
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