The downsides of working as a freelancer in medical illustration field.
I have been a freelancer for over 10 years now. I've been freelancing while working full time but I am also doing it as a full time job for the past 7 years. In this time I kind of get the sense of what is good and what is bad about it.
Today we will be talking about the bad part of it, or maybe a more accurate way of saying it is "scary part" of freelancing.
The cash flow
The main fear people have is constant cash flow. A regular job gives you a salary and that is great, is reassuring and most of the times is reliable. Sometimes the job is not "forever" though and that is something that most of us went through. A job can end, you have little or no control over it. If someone else makes mistakes the company might collapse or the branch you are in might be closed. A freelance project will end for sure, but the difference is that it is your responsibility to make it work and keep it alive as long as it should. So I feel I have more control over my own job when I am freelancing. As for the money, freelancers make more money/hour than employees most of the time.
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