| A freelance job can take a lot of forms, from working | | | | sites which have begun to pop up on the Internet that |
| nursing for those who need an overnight assist, to | | | | will match you up with those who want your services. |
| working a blog, or starting servers, or even writing | | | | No group will want to use someone who can't write |
| articles for web sites who require them on a regular | | | | well, or whose grammar and English needs to be |
| basis. Programmers who work freelance are often | | | | consistently corrected or replaced. He now travels |
| paid more than twice what they normally make for | | | | both nationally and internationally to work on projects |
| working in an office and Canada as well as the US | | | | and has effectively tripled his salary from what it was |
| offered these incentives, because they do not have to | | | | when he began working for an ISP several years ago. |
| maintain offices and furnish the supplies for these type | | | | Most will charge a small fee for you to use their |
| employees. Dave began on a smaller project and | | | | service, but you will find the opportunity to bid on many |
| worked on a temporary basis. Many sites will offer | | | | different types and priced jobs, where you can begin |
| some wonderful individuals who will pay well and in a | | | | to make a name in the consulting business. Many |
| timely way, however there are also those who will low | | | | companies will hire those whose work they admire for |
| ball and ask you to do an article along with research | | | | a permanent placement. Make sure that when you |
| that may take upward of an hour, for two dollars or | | | | work at the position, you will check and double check |
| less. The company was pleased with his work and | | | | your work prior to turning it in. Freelance consulting |
| hired him to become a permanent part of their team. | | | | may just be your step up to a new career path. When |
| Finding a way to freelance for companies who need | | | | I was working nursing, I found that even the non skilled |
| the services of someone like you, on a day to day | | | | nursing jobs paid more for me in the open arenas such |
| basis is a great way to stay at home and support | | | | as home health than they did when I was working in |
| yourself and your family. | | | | house such as a hospital or nursing home. I left the |
| Medical consulting is one that I took on, and it worked | | | | office full time over 2 years ago, and although things |
| well for me because as a former nurse, some of the | | | | were tight in the beginning, so far I haven't' looked back. |
| medical knowledge that I had was exactly what was | | | | Much like you'd not take a position that paid you two |
| necessary in the specific web site I worked for. | | | | dollars an hour in the real world, so you can't afford to |
| Nurses who work freelance in the US make | | | | do so when you are consulting and discouraging |
| substantially more than they might do working in | | | | others from taking the lower pay will in the end help |
| hospital, and give the fairly vast nursing shortage they | | | | everyone involved in freelancing. So many fields are |
| can expect to be offered a great deal more in other | | | | now open to the consultant that to choose a course |
| countries. Consulting can be rewarding both personally | | | | that would serve well in all of them is difficult at best, |
| and financially as in the case of Dave who currently | | | | however the one that springs immediately to mind |
| works for one of the largest computer firms in the | | | | would be of course English or grammar. Specific |
| world. If you are tired of the day to day running to an | | | | courses that might aid you in a consulting career would |
| office, don't like alarm clocks or suits and decided that | | | | be as varied of course as your choice of the career |
| there had to be a better way to make a living, then | | | | to follow. Working for someone for two weeks, who |
| you're probably ready for a career change. Be careful | | | | doesn't pay for two more weeks, probably will make |
| to research the quality of those who want to buy your | | | | living difficult when you are dependent upon your jobs |
| time or service, and to ask them for the names of | | | | for your support. Freelance Programmers and writers |
| others who have worked for them in the past so that | | | | are in great demand by many US Companies, as are |
| you can assure yourself of their reputation as an | | | | drivers, writers and medical personnel. Dependent upon |
| employer and to be sure that they pay, and pay in a | | | | your skills in the field that you've chosen you are well |
| timely way. What I did, was to work several of those | | | | able to meet your needs financially by a career in |
| jobs each week, and to build a rapport with some of | | | | consulting. |
| the companies, who then in turned used my service | | | | I then took on a virtual assistant job that lasted for |
| again and again, and offered some great referrals to | | | | about 8 months, prior to moving back to writing articles |
| assist me in finding others. | | | | and restarting servers again. Sun Micro-systems, who |
| Among the companies who use freelance assistance | | | | have been known to hire on a temp basis for a |
| in some of their projects are some very well known | | | | specific project. Signing on with a company to do a |
| companies such as: *Google, the search engine giant | | | | particular job and see it through to its completion will |
| *Rent a Coder *Kelly Temps: supplies writers, | | | | ease the concerns about that type of exploitation, with |
| secretaries, programmers and a wide array of | | | | a set fee arranged for each job that you tackle, much |
| temporary workers nationwide in the US. One way to | | | | like the salaried employee would have. |
| get a foot in the door, is to seek out one of the many | | | | |