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If you are ill and can’t work, you won’t get paid. If you have holiday leave you won’t get paid. It’s your work and you have to do it to get paid. Unless you hire someone else to complete your projects.<\/p>\n
Can Be Long Work Hours<\/h3>\n
Freelancers usually never turn down work. Money is money, right? But when the workload builds up, freelancers usually tend to find themselves working round the clock 60+ hours a week. This can be very exhausting.<\/p>\n
Always At Work<\/h3>\n
You should expect to be on call all day long which can be a strain on personal life. You can go to work whenever you like. If you are sitting enjoying your TV and you get an email from a client asking for the deadline to be moved forward for extra pay, it can interrupt your personal activities.<\/p>\n
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Freelancing Isn’t Scalable<\/h3>\n
If you decide to go away for a month, you cant come back and find out you have earned more money than in the previous month. You have to constantly work to earn money. You won’t earn from it in the future and it won’t be your retirement.<\/p>\n
This can be bad and good. If you choose not to put much effort in, then you won’t survive as a freelancer for long. There are many other freelancers out there and your clients will just find someone else if your work isn’t up to scratch, or if you can’t meet the deadlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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