What's the experience of being a freelancer?

At the end of 2016165438+10, I left the internet company and chose to be a freelancer. Many friends around me don't understand why I want to leave a high-paying enterprise and lead a turbulent life, because I always like a planned life.

The competition and pressure in the first-tier cities are very great, so I dare not slack off my life from the beginning of drifting north. A few years later, my efforts and gains are still in direct proportion, but for a while I felt physically and mentally exhausted and often unhappy, so at an opportunity, I decided to try to realize freelancing with my hobbies.

From 20 16, 1 1, to 20 17, exactly half a year. Many readers leave messages saying that they envy freelancers, so today I want to share with you my gains and feelings in the past six months:

1, freelancing does not mean freedom is freedom, but the material basis is the premise.

There are many free people around me, all of whom have a certain material foundation without exception. This foundation doesn't mean that you should have more money, but at least have enough food and capital to keep yourself from making money and starving to death for half a year.

It should be noted that although freelancing looks chic, you have to solve the problems of social security, provident fund and even personal tax payment yourself before leaving the workplace. Many people don't care, but serious illness and other situations still need medical insurance. In addition, social security accumulation fund and individual tax payment are analyzed according to the specific problems of individual city policies.

Take me for example. I have settled in Beijing, so I don't need to consider buying a house, so I stopped paying taxes and provident fund, but the five insurances are linked to a company and I have to pay them myself. Unlike in a company, you need to take part in the company. Plus the monthly handling fee, it's about 1500 yuan.

So for me, the monthly goal is to earn 3000 yuan and pay social security+daily expenses. You don't need to set high goals for yourself. After all, you still have savings and family as the strong backing, but you must have a goal to prevent yourself from slacking off.

2, the initial state of freelancing, in addition to anxiety, or anxiety.

"Today is the third day of freelancing, and the company's salary ends today. From now on, I will no longer have a fixed income. " -Diary on the third day of resignation.

On 1 day after my resignation, I bought myself a beautiful notebook to record my mental journey. Looking back now, I found that the initial anxiety completely came from no longer having a fixed income.

How to solve your worries? Only get rich!

This sentence is absolutely true. Life is so realistic that we are not saints. Without income, the quality of life will inevitably decrease.

In addition, the incomprehension and opposition of family and friends will also make you very anxious. For example, two months before I quit my job, my mother would chant why I didn't work hard in almost every video. Later, she was still very happy to see me, so she stopped persuading me to return to the workplace.

Only oneself can perceive and grasp the rhythm of life, and others are bystanders. So, if you think clearly, you won't be anxious anymore.

In order to ensure your income, you must learn1+n 0+n.

The prerequisite of freelancing is that you can always settle down and make a living from it. You can still earn money to support yourself without a platform. For me, writing is such a skill.

Why is it called 1+n? 1 is the so-called skill, and n is the profit model extended from 1.

What is my n?

Platform cooperation, magazine signing, writing articles, helping other small partners to plan topics, offering writing courses (including self-operated and media platform cooperation), publishing books, operating consulting, recording courses, and entering the financial community.

Why are there so many lines?

Because there is no guarantee that a certain line will make money. This reminds me of investors, who invest in dozens of companies and abc company loses money, but it doesn't matter, edf and others are making money, so the whole company is making money, the same reason.

Of course, Rome was not built in a day, so these lines were opened only after they matured. Gradually accumulate, the income will gradually increase. Anxiety will gradually ease with the increase of income.

Some people say that freelancers are mostly slash youths, all skilled, but in fact they are just better at integrating resources.

4, accumulate resources in all aspects, don't covet small profits, let opportunities come to you automatically.

In my freelance career, I watched a TV series called Chicken Feather Fly to the Sky, in which I quite agree with a line: four in, six out, four in.

If you earn 10 yuan, leave 4 yuan for your partner 6 yuan, and pay attention to accumulating contacts in all aspects.

Whether you are looking for someone to cooperate or looking for a platform to cooperate, the initiative is in your own hands. In general, we should strive for more benefits for ourselves, but sometimes you can win longer-term cooperation and development by giving more benefits to each other. Open your mouth and give each other's interests to the highest value you can bear. The other party is not a fool. If you understand your own good, it will bring you more resources and opportunities.

This is very important and applies to all people and things.

5. Freelance is easier to see your own shortcomings and has more time to make up and improve.

Working in a company, you are exposed to the workplace, comparing people from the same class, but freelancing is different, and you will meet all kinds of people for various reasons.

At this time, it is easy to find your own shortcomings, emotional intelligence, ability and cognition.

No one is perfect, but life is a practice. Now that we have realized the shortcomings, we should try our best to catch up and make up for them.

Freelance has free time, so relatively speaking, it has more room to control, and it can do many things it wants to do and improve all aspects of its dissatisfaction.

Of course, in addition to improving skills, there is plenty of time to do things that interest you. For example, travel, such as learning new hobbies.

As a music idiot, I bought a Creary and learned to play and sing with software at a fixed time every afternoon, but I can play fluently in a few days. What I once thought came true because of freelancing.

6. Self-discipline is not an easy task.

During my first freelance career, I realized that I no longer needed to punch in on time, but I still insisted on going to bed early and getting up early. 1 month later, I start to relax, wake up naturally when I sleep in the morning, and watch movies at night may last until 1 or 2 o'clock.

Along with it, it is the weight gain caused by irregular diet.

After slacking off for a while, I began to dislike myself, so I rearranged my schedule and got up at a fixed time every morning. Besides reading and writing, I also have regular time to do sports. After a long time, a sense of ritual has formed, and it is much easier to stick to it.

7. A person is like a team. Although busy and idle can be controlled, it is not easy.

The biggest difference between freelancing and going to work is that there is a team in the company to complete a project with you, while freelancing is a team.

To be an official WeChat account, you should plan your own topic selection, editing, typesetting, pushing, replying to messages, negotiating business cooperation with cooperation platforms, and maintaining relationships.

To do the course, we should plan the topic, write ppt, write promotion copy, find cooperation platform, talk about cooperation methods, lecture comments and so on;

In short, no matter what you do, even if you have a little assistant to share with you, you are still the main force. You have become the leader of all product lines.

I am a purposeful person, so sometimes I have new ideas today, even if I work overtime, I have to finish the whole planning case. Because you are the first step, if you are procrastinating, the later process will be even more distant.

8. Give some advice to people who want to be freelancers.

First of all, before you quit your job, you should figure out what you will live on in the future. If you don't have a skill to earn money to support your family, you'd better accumulate more.

This society is pluralistic. You can make money by talking, drawing, writing and having a good voice. It is important to recognize your own long board. The next thing you have to do is "do your best".

Secondly, freelancing is not as glamorous as expected, and there is no job that is not hard, including freelancing. You should plan to be a "generalist". On the road of freelancing, you must keep learning new knowledge.

Life is so long, you don't have to live a fixed life and get tired of the workplace. It is not difficult to give yourself some time to find the rhythm of life. Similarly, if one day you are tired of doing it alone, you can go back to the workplace.

Being a man, the most important thing is to be happy.

Finally, whether in the workplace or freelance, be happy!

May you always be in my story. Wechat WeChat official account Qing Xin Lan Tian