Is freelancing better than full-time? | De-influencing 

Freelancing is like being your own boss, but sometimes your boss forgets to pay you, give you health insurance, or let you take a day off 😉

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I did both and now I am a full-time freelancer, I don't take any breaks, I work for 12 to 15 hours every single day. no Sunday, no holiday but I go for a vacation once in every three months and sometimes these are as long as a month. Even though I work almost 3 times more than my full-time job but I am happy and never want to go back on a full-time job. I like freelancing I don't need to waste 2/3 hours just commuting to my work place. aur sb se jaruri mai sunday ka wait krte huye nhi jita an hi mujhe ye lgta h ki fir Monday aa gaya. sote time ye nhi sochna padta ki kl fir office jana h. mai roj kaam krta hu fir bhi moring me excitement rhti h kaam start krne ki. Baki ap dekh lo ky krna h

I'm freelancing for last two years as a specialist engineer in an obscure nieche. This is out of necessity, because the role I'm seeking rarely exists in a corp. Freelancing is a rosy picture until you run out of work and money. It's tough outside the security of a job because almost everything is uncertain. Next client, next project, next payment, you have little to no control over the timing. Unless you're in it to scale what you do and run it like a business, it's going to be a nightmare because of limited bandwidth and uncertainties. I don't recommend freelancing if you're running away from people, politics, discipline, a boss or what not. You're highly likely to be disillusioned if you try to freelance. Grass seems greener where there's more bullshit. Breaking free of bondage of a job comes with immense burden of self education, responsibility, radical ownership and dealing with uncertainties and unseen risks. Highly relatable video.

I was a freelancer for a year 2022-23 but now I am in a position where I hire freelancers. It's good to level up the game.

Finally a video on which I had requested! Thanks pratik sir 🙂

As a freelance since last 4-5 years, I both, agree and disagree with the video: Misconception 1 - Agreed. The first year is the hardest financially,however, after that its a downhill provided you keep the consistency. Misconception 2 - Disagreed. I have a lot of time freedom, largely due my line of work. Client gives me a project deadline and that's it, I'm free to choose my own work hours. Isolation is real though, I don't get to socialize very often. Misconception 3 - Disagreed. There's practically no office politics at least of me. If you're good the client would want to work with you more. Misconception 4 - Agreed, but again, the first year is toughest. Once you have a good portfolio of work, and even a small client base, if it not very hard to get more work. This is purely my personal experience and may vary as there's a lot of different kind of freelance work which may demand other commitments.

I used to think people were living life the wrong way, now I understand why people do what they do

If you're good at something which doesn't pays you enough as a corporate employee (for example, people employed in a company as a graphic designer, video editors, illustrators, vfx artists, etc.), it's better to look for freelancing jobs instead. There is a hard cap on salary for creative professionals (graphic designers, video editors, illustrators, etc.) at any corporate job. You won't get to 30-40 LPA salary no matter how good you are as a creative professional in a corporate job. If you want better salary, you'll have to change your job role to some managerial role like becoming a project manager or something. If you end up changing your job role, one way or another you'll be sacrificing your passion for the financial growth (or more money). Whereas, if you're a freelancer, you can charge your clients what you're worth (assuming your expectations are realistic, and you don't live in a bubble). Foreign clients in general tend to be less exploitative than Indian corporate jobs, and will pay you well if you're good. You might have a chance to land a full-time position for a foreign company as a remote worker as well. In my opinion, the main benefit of freelancing is the freedom to travel and work from anywhere as long as you have internet connection, as well as being able to stay with your loved ones all the time. Obviously it's not always unicorns and roses. In my opinion, if you're exceptionally good at what you do, you should try pursuing freelancing. But if you're just mediocre, forget freelancing, just get a job and try to climb the corporate ladder. Moreover, as a freelancer, unless you can scale yourself up as a business, it's difficult to earn anywhere near what a person in a managerial role is earning in a corporate job. Also, no matter whether it's freelancing or corporate job, don't forget to keep investing smartly and plan for rainy days.

Voice and Video sync issue after 11:06 min. Btw Explanation is good. Only problem people feel they are not earning good is they are stuck in comfort zone and scared of big change of they start persue for their dreams and that cause all the non sense and scarry thought. A video on that would be awesome.

Your dedication really shows in your work. You put so effort into every edit Zero1 ✌️

I have been in job for 20 years now .And trying my hand with freelance too Freelancing is not a way out of jobs negatives.There are equal amount of negatives there too.Its just about choices and what makes you more comfortable

At the outset, the word freelancing itself is wrong. You can proudly say you're a freelancer, but most clients will always take you for granted. Don't mess up your life with freelancing since having a disciplined or organised work culture in this career option is very difficult. The worst case is freelancing plus working from home, it's like a suicide.

Coworking space and freelancing. Peaceful and full of energetic and Skillful people gathered in one environment.

Freelancing or full time job choice is subjective, your level of skill is objective, choose either freelancing or full time job, you'll kill it and get huge success if you're fucking good at it. Peace out!

That's very true! I am a freelancer myself and most of my friends are freelancing only. They often face this issue of being out of their regular social circles, which leads to lack of motivation and thrill in life. They generally try to go to co-working spaces where they find likeminded people and chill with them in their free time.

Eye opener for new freelancers ❤

Been a freelancer since 2008. I will choose it above full time work every time. It is flexible, lets you be your own boss. BUT it is harder than full time work in terms of having to do everything yourself. One day away from work means loss of money. One needs to be good at money management too. Income is erratic. Fast/ feast situation. A huge plus about freelance is the sheer variety of work. Very satisfying for a creative person.

This is a good video but I think one point that's not considered is how certain roles (esp creative roles) just don't pay after a certain stage in your career to keep up with what you want to earn. So freelancing becomes a better option. Also, another (slightly aspirational) suggestion is to not only consider men and neurotypicals as your examples. Women and neurodivergent folks are often undervalued and underpaid regardless of how talented they are. It's because of systemic issues, and ableist homogenous expectations. And sticking it out in a corporate job may be soul-sucking and frustrating for them, making freelancing a better option than quitting their jobs altogether.

Freelancing + Full-time

JOB: TRAVELLING TO OFFICE TRAFFIC YOU WILL BE FIRED AND OWN NOTHING WILL START FROM SCRATCH AT A NEW PLACE FIXED STABLE INCOME BASED ON THE BUDGET OF COMPANY YOU WILL BE WORKING FOR THE COMPNAY THAT YOU DO NOT OWN SO ALL THE WORK IS FOR SOMEONE ELSE choice will depend on the type of person.

In the present era it's quite difficult to be a freelancer as the competition is quite high especially in Software development sector

This is so true!! Wish it reached out to more people!

Sir we need SIP VS SWP plss

If you have a good job, company will pay everything for you but in business you have to manage yourself i.e. travel expenses or health security. I am saying this after running my business for almost 14 years. Business is not bad but job is also not bad as social media influencers tell. Good jobs are worth going for.

as an agency owner i think freelancing is good for me because it give me freedom and iam 20 i earn good money and its really good

Disagree with a single point - that you always have a boss (this whole notion is wrong when Elon Musk is negotiating with leverage very few employees have leverage, same as freelancer also you have some leverage if you are good at what you do)

Can I make a career in freelancing as a Web developer? It is compulsory to learn back-end development or only frontend is okay for freelancing? Someone said clients, companies want overall skillful people who knows back-end and front-end development, that's why I'm asking it. Everyone is learning web development, all the front end developers have made gigs, there is saturation on the freelancing platform, so how to survive, how will anyone give work to the new ones? And can we do this for lifetime, can we secure it by making a career or will we have to do a job?? You know anything can happen when go online, ( what if) all your business shut down suddenly... What if RU-vid, website or social media shut down, we already experienced that, now we often see social media shuts down occasionally. So can you make career in all these field if you're drop out and can't find your career??? Also here is my question: 👇🏻 1. How to take it as business? 2. How to find clients? 3. What to do when you're sick or on vacation, traveling, how to handle clients then? 4. How to scale your business?Or you need to do job or any other income source for survival? 5. After learning one skill you need to learn another skill for freelancing? 6. How to choose skill? I'm confused in 3-4 skills/careers like web development, graphics designer, thumbnail designer and animation, illustration etc which is better for long term career?

08:34 office politics is simple nonsense reason for hating salaried job, I mean at some point people around you likes to dominate you somehow by all kinds of factors, Like i bought a maruti wagonr just for the sake of my parents as they both are retired, Then my cousin noticed my appreciation and bought an xuv300 for his parent's which they din't even asked for, Also they don't even know to drive, just for the sake of dominating me😂😂 he bought a bigger car, Nobody can escape from a politics it just starts from the siblings from their childhood

I am a fairly successful freelancer. But you need a giant four leaved-clover. I got extremely lucky.

Currently I'm trying to build my skill set to have side gigs via freelancing.. This is a good starting point.. Having the right expectations! 😅

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I am in a work from home salaried individual and I have no social life, so its not just freelancers who face such issues job people can feel the same.

In this case, I believe Contract Jobs are the perfect, ensuring a short term security of the corporate, and also giving someone an independence of a freelancer. In the coming days, my firm belief is Contract Jobs will be the future.

Very Well Explained Zero1 ❤

Trust me zerodha explains the best thanks ❤.

Get a corporate job, don't work hard. Be a side freelancer.

This video cleared all the misconceptions that students or aspiring freelancers generally have. Amidst Mr.Influencers who say money making is easy, our De-Influencer says the Truth though it is hard to accept! Thank you For this video!

Have been running an agency model, Getting Clients and converting them is tough as hell, until you are a brand And building a brand takes a hell lot of time

The best part of freelancing is compounding with making a team!

Video is great but out of sync post 11:00. My OCD killing me as an editor right now 🙃

i left freelancing a year back, i was roughly making 60K-1.2L/month. I got a 70L job with great work-life-balance, Never going back to freelancing 🤣

I can fully agree with prateek on the freelancing points as am running a wedding photography and filming company The Wedding Essay but am the sole proprietor of the company, am almost working like a freelancer, being lonely and not having a social life is the biggest con in this field.

I want to start freelancing learn business and start own business after freelancing.

Please do an analysis on Working with Startups vs Traditional/MNCs

I used to like when he used to say clearly these guy won’t but for larger audiences now you’re explaining that it is the internet you were talking about 😂

Perfect topic and good info, solutions to these problems would have been a good part of the video, make the next one for it Zero1, else do that on Full Disclosure.

I did solo freelancing, it's too much hectic. If you have a team then you may earn less but you are establishing something. And keep that day job then do freelancing with a team.

I think this video's editor is also a freelancer 😅...he took personally 11:08 BTW gr8 video

Further to my earlier comments, let me add a few more comments! A mechanical design engineer who was expert started doing freelance. I guided him to conduct design classes for fresh mechanical engineers. Here attitudes play a very important role . If he started conducting classes, he would have a manpower base. Basically his attitude is, if he teaches, others will gobble his business. Even during working, he would not clarify design doubts for non design department. That's why he lost his business. Further, when he started applying for jobs, he was asked by a company to head a design team. He refused because of his attitude of not guiding others!😂 If he was guiding others, he would have confidently accepted such a position! 😂 He lost here because of unpractised hidden skill set!😂😂😂😂😂

Nice analysis but still freelance is freedom. Freelancing in my experience is - there goes a year with revenues more than expected and then followed with 2 years with half or even 1/4 based on market dynamics. Now either the freelancer breaks and joins a job or flights and get business, in most cases the person chooses the first. the rare case finds new clients or diversifies and over years is better off than the one who quit.. it actually takes a lot of Talent, guts, emotional balance and money to survive and excel in freelancing. Freelancer with home(family) commitments is actually never free😂😂 instead of one corporate boss now there are multiple people bossing on you once your business income is low. Successful freelancers are mostly loners, self centred, high ego, determined person with High emotional balance.

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what if I could freelance😂😂😂this part was just 😂 but isn't it possible that i could practially move fast in freelancing ?

I can truely relate to freelancing part as I am a freelance Yoga Trainer for 6 plus years.

It is not that in freelancing you are your own boss it is that you have multiple boss... You have to answer to multiple bosses. On top of that none of the bosses give you ppf, bonus or insurance and even sometimes refuse to give you leave 😂

Freelancing is damn good if you have multiple skills such as design, development, SEO, marketing, AI, etc. Because in a job, you're paid for only one skill.

Employment and Freelance Both R not permanent ...its all your mindset for survival...and totally wat u do wil b trap either...

Please make content on HUF, is it worth having? How to move wealth to HUF?

11:08 to 11:11 is not matching audio with the audio. Your editing work is super amazing but it has to be taking care to at revisions. And with a new idea new video you gonna boom 👏.

Isn't SRK a freelancer? 😂😂

Amazing video but 11:00 to 11:30 clips and audio not syn

Well, I agree with all of your claims. But to get the pros there is always some ways to overcome the cons.

In 10-12 timestamp lip sync error

Now totally bored with the opening "Okay Something is totally wrong here" It no longer works for me somehow.

if you want to avoid the work then you will struggle with both

Freelancing is good but it needs top notch tech stack to make good money otherwise it is nothing so, freelancing needs great skills

Wonderful skills❤❤

All these cool animations and all but couldn't capitalize at the simple basics . I mean wow Editor bhai You're representing a million dollar company and kudos to the Social media manager also 🔥

Nice video

Amazing video!!!! Freelancing is one of the best option to understand things for freshers💯💯💯💯

You're a true hero boss🎉, uncovering the truth with compelling arguments and convincing points...

The pacing and timing in your editing are spot on. It kept me engaged from start to finish🙌🙌

I freelanced for sometime. I had 10+ bosses. Choose wisely, People!

Hi, has zerodha planning for mtf facility??

Much needed video. Some so called influencers are hyping up misconceptions to sell their so called coourses.

Watched this in the morning, The Sync issue got me a bit disoriented. Fire your Freelancer. ;)

I think you are concentrated only on IT sector. There are other sectors like teaching, sports etc. A person should have a passive income from assets earned earlier. Now , freelancing gives time to explore new ventures. Individual contractor is also a freelancer. I used to work in oil and gas industry on contract basis. The pay is higher than a regular employee, but the term is fixed. No job is permanent. Save, invest wisely and have a passive income. It's a step between a contract job and a entrepreneur. Some freelance requires just to spend 1hour a day for 3 to 4 days a week maybe in morning or afternoon. For this, a person has to acquire multiple skills. I may call this a transition freelancing. For example a person who was working with Amazon lost his job. He started coaching in a sport he was playing. The rest of his time he spent on managing his father's catering business. Now, he has committed a small amount of time (sports) to earn an income, before jumping to his family business. I think most people make business plans without conducting market survey, skill( their own skill) by blindly jumping into freelancing.

Freelancing is okay when you(Something you do better than others like cheaper prices and certain skills) don't have initial salary and success expectations, Mr.Influencers makes it easy for their views with an eye-catching thumbnail.

Freelancing is good. But dont be there for more time. Level up and start hiring.

Hey, zero1 team, the content you guys are putting is giving me lot of value. I'm 22 and got an entry to the largest mnc as a fresher. How can I now skill up myself and get a good pay and ask for a raise now. If i learn everything in my current post and if i feel the pay is less how can I negotiate for a better pay and if possible promote to some different posts which have no relationship with the current post. Also how can I network within the company and colleagues etc. (I dont have a clue about all the things related to companies and work culture, pay and all). Help me and lot of recently placed freshers guys😊❤.

Hello Prateek, You have missed out on how freelancing atmosphere and scope differs from one industry to another. Hope you can cover the same in some other video. I have been a freelancer, then i moved to corportate job, then I hired freelancers. I have worked with software developers, content developers, and graphic designers, Each have different experiences in freelancing. So it would be helpful if you could add a 2nd part with industry specific experiences and how it differs widely

This is very true, I am working as freelancer for last 5 years. The growth is very hard in freelancing.

Amazing Zero1 ❤

Nice editing zero1 ❤️

Very Nice Zero1 ❤️✌️

I agree with you on only point the whole video - nothing comes easy. But this video is just only a flip side of Freelancing!! In my humble opinion, when you pursue your passion as freelancing literally nothing can stop doing what you do all day regardless of all the points you talked about here. When you freelancing your passion, you will find any hiccups, hindrances and hurdles for that matter not as constraints on the way instead you will just consider them part of the process reaching your goal. My way to approach the freelancing is to follow the below process then you will see the wonders: 1. Firstly, Never listen to outside noise just follow your inner voice - know what you are 100% good at 2. Identify an idea or concept at the earliest part of your life 3. Convert that into your lifetime goal. Start devoting your quality time, effort and money to acquire in-depth knowledge about that concept 4. Develop your skillset with the knowledge acquired 5. Gain experience by applying your knowledge and skillset developed to see gradual progress 6. Once gained experience, its time to monetize your skill slowly but surely 7. Monetizing will help you gain confidence to carve a niche for yourself You gotta make sure that you are well prepared even for bad times by saving substantially when you are through good times, thats how it works. Grand success will never happen in a jiffy Folks, anybody with me on the above insights??

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Bhai me full time job karta hu. Aur khush hu.

Could you please make video on current job market ?

Right now i worked as a freelancer. I enjoyed my work having a good client base just confused about my future that how long i can continue that work without any stability or fixed income

i'm 21 working at a tech startup WFH its hard after first month, its boring

I see it like that “be your own boss” also means “be your own slave”. It’s a fantasy to be your own boss but only a few years later you realise what you have lost.

why there's audio to video mismatch ??! 🤔😓

AV sync lost in Misconception 4, kya karra bhai Editor.

The audio track fell off in later part

Many editing errors!!! Re-upload!!!

Everything about freelancing is spot-on in this video. And as a solo freelancer I can vouch that you'd feel more lonely and often sleepless nights in this profession. Look at freelancing sub reddits, you'll come across atleast one post about this twice a week. If anyone tells me they wanted to get into freelancing & ask for my advice, I'd tell them "jump in at your own risk"

best video

I did both. And can confirm freelance is little bit better (for me) but it's not free money ! Of course you need to work !

Your editing adds a cinematic touch to everything you work on. It really elevates the content 🫶🏻